RYAN J CLOUSE
Electrical Contractor at Findlay St, Carey, OH

5316432, May 31, 1994

Dec 7, 1992

7/986569

Raymond L. Smalley - Carey OH
John C. Hall - Carey OH
Ryan J. Clouse - Carey OH
P. Fred Risner - Carey OH
Edward L. Strohm - Tiro OH

REB Manufacturing Co., Inc. - Carey OH

B60R 302

414540

Steps are convertible into a platform of an elevator for wheelchairs such as installed in vehicles and buses, during which conversion a barrier is automatically raised from the bottom step to be at the outer edge of the platform. The barrier is operated by an extensible link under the bottom step, which link is connected between the barrier and a crank arm keyed to an oscillatible transverse shaft under the inner part of the bottom step. Two additional crank arms are keyed to the ends of this shaft and are connected to a frame for a step or riser to oscillate said shaft when the steps are extended and unfolded into their platform position. The extendible link extends the barrier into a ramp when the platform is in its lowest position for access by a wheelchair. Reciprocating motors such as hydraulic pistons extend, retract, fold and unfold the panels that form the steps and their intermediate risers. When the step panels are in the platform position, additional reciprocating motors raise and lower the platform as an elevator.