ES1068763U - Cover for frontal closure of boxes of access platforms in coaches (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Cover for frontal closing of boxes of access platforms in coaches, which being applicable in those platforms divided into two parts, determining a fixed part and a mobile part, and the corresponding platform being established in a frontally open box, is characterized in that it incorporates a supplementary cover for frontal closing of the box of the platform in the folded position thereof, which on the one hand is hinged to the end of a connecting rod and at its other end joins an articulated support in correspondence with the axis of rotation and tilting of the mobile part of the platform itself, said supplementary cover remaining under the mobile part of the platform in the unfolded position thereof, while in the folded position of said mobile part, after tilting 180º thereof, said supplementary cover it is frontally located in vertical establishing the closing of the box of the platform. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Cover for front closure of boxes Coach access platforms.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a cover for front closure of access platform boxes in coaches, whose obvious purpose is to establish a closure of the box where fold and collect the platforms used as access on the climb and / or descent of coaches and the like.

The object of the invention is to achieve a closure of the platform boxes preferably applicable to vehicles small, when the so-called "plate" or body of the platform is divided into two parts, one fixed and one mobile.

Background of the invention

The platforms used as access in coaches, are usually mounted in a box with respect to which can be folded inside, the platform being collected in resting position, or extend outside, occupying a deployed position for use as an access surface for the people.

What is called "plate" or body of the platform itself, usually consists of a body unique when the platform is applied in normal coaches, remaining closed the box in which the components are housed by a front cover that serves two functions, one as a cover itself said and another as an access surface between the platform and the ground.

Now, in smaller vehicles, for reasons of permissibility of assembly and for reasons of economy, the platform or plate is divided into two parts, one of which It is fixed and the other folding, to be able to fold and unfold, being in the first case superimposed the mobile part to the part fixed, while in the second case the mobile part is forming a superficial continuity with the previous one, obviously expanding The length of it.

In this case, the front cover cannot comply the two functions referred to above, so that a front closure problem of the case since although the lid conventional fulfills the access function, however it cannot fulfill the closing function by virtue of being split the platform in two parts.

Description of the invention

The recommended cover has been designed to solve the problem described above, based on a simple but effective solution.

More specifically, the solution to the problem raised above is that the platform incorporates a supplementary cover that is operated independently, cover that relates to the mobile part of the platform, in correspondence with its innermost section, so that when said platform is folded horizontally, the supplementary cover is horizontally below without constituting any obstacle, while when said previous half of the platform is lowered for its collection, that additional cover is located vertically on the front, constituting the front cover itself of the platform box, so that the position change of said supplementary cover is made without manipulation some of the same, but it is done directly when depressing or deploy the mobile part of the platform.

The connection of said supplementary cover to the mobile part of the platform is made by simple articulated side cranks, at one end, to the cover and, by another, to two lateral supports of the mobile part of the platform, this mobile part being articulated through its end to the fixed part, so that the turning movement or 180º tilting of that mobile part of the platform, you accompanies a 90º turning or tilting movement of the lid supplementary

The fundamental advantage of the proposed solution is that an optimal closure of the box is obtained when the platform, which is very positive in the type of platform which is most often mounted on vehicles, where the box Stay outdoors.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that then it will be done and in order to help a better understanding of the features of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization thereof, is accompanied as an integral part of that description, a set of drawings in where illustrative and not limiting, it has been represented the next:

Figure 1.- Shows a representation according to an overview of the platform in folded position, with the front closure cover made in accordance with the object of the invention.

Figure 2.- Shows a perspective view of the platform in deployed position.

Figure 3.- Shows a perspective view of what is the whole platform outside the box, in folded position.

Figure 4.- Shows a perspective view in an intermediate deployment position of the mobile part of the platform.

Figure 5.- Shows a perspective view of the fully deployed position of the mobile part of the platform.

Figure 6.- Shows a perspective view and enlarged corresponding to detail A of figure 4, showing the connection between the cover of the invention and the mobile part of the platform.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

As you can see in the referred figures, the cover (1) of the invention is provided to close the front of the box (2) in which the whole of an access platform is housed applicable in coaches, when said platform is in position folded or collected inside that box (2).

The platform, in the present case, comprises two parts (4 and 5), the first one fixed, as shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5, and the mobile part (5), being mounted to through an articulation axis (6) as the axis of rotation in the tilting of that mobile part (5) of the platform that can be positioned superimposed on the fixed part (4), as represented in figure 3, or fully deployed, as shown in figure 5.

The cover (1) is located at the end of the movable part (5) opposite that of the hinge (6), in order that when folded in the folded or picked up position arranged vertically by closing the corresponding box (2) in the which is located the whole platform (3), showing in the Figure 5 the corresponding conventional cover (7) front of the platform set.

The connection of the supplementary cover (1) to the moving part (5) of the platform is made by a connecting rod (8), which at one end articulates at point (9) on the commented cover supplementary (1), while at the other end the connecting rod (8) articulates, at point (10), on a support (11) articulated to its on the axis of rotation (6) of the movable part (5) of the platform, so that from the folded position it represents in the  figure 3, to the deployed position represented in figure 5, the moving part (5) performs a tilt from 0º to 180º, and whose movement is accompanied by a 90º turn of the lid itself supplementary (1), until it is in the deployed position of figure 5 below the moving part (5) of the platform, without being an obstacle, and yet it is positioned frontally and vertically in the folded position, such and as shown in figure 3, closing the box (2) in which the whole platform assembly (3) is housed.

Claims (1)

1. Cover for frontal closing of boxes of access platforms in coaches, which being applicable in those platforms divided into two parts, determining a fixed part and a mobile part, and being established the corresponding platform in a frontally open box, is characterized by incorporating a supplementary cover for frontal closing of the platform box in the folded position of the platform, a lid that on the one hand is articulated at the end of a connecting rod and on the other end articulates a support articulated in correspondence with the axis of rotation and tilting of the mobile part of the platform itself, said supplementary cover remaining under the mobile part of the platform in the deployed position thereof, while in the folded position of said mobile part, after the 180 ° tilting thereof, said supplementary cover It is positioned vertically, establishing the closure of the platform box.