For Transporting Passengers To Or From An Aircraft Patents (Class 296/179)
  • Publication number: 20020121799
    Abstract: A sheltered aircraft supply vehicle includes an entrance station located above the cab of the vehicle. The vehicle body is elevatable. A cover system is mounted to the vehicle body and is extended outwardly above the entrance station when the body is elevated. The cover system includes a roof section disposed over the entrance station and includes downwardly depending wings which contact side walls of the entrance station to create a closed tunnel between the vehicle body and an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: Cramaro Tarpaulin Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bob Buker, Michael Cramaro
  • Patent number: 4457554
    Abstract: A method, and a vehicle for dispatching air passengers between the arrival at an arrival zone and boarding the aircraft, with check-in, baggage checking and transport from the arrival zone to the aircraft waiting at the ramp, in which the air passengers, after arriving at the arrival zone, are conducted, together with the baggage, into a cabin mounted on a vehicle, and check-in, baggage checking and, optionally, a security check are performed in the cabin which transports the air passenger directly to the aircraft. The vehicle, thus, takes over a number of functions which heretofore were performed in the stationary airport building. The dispatching takes place simultaneously with the transport of the air passengers to the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Inventors: Georg Fuisz, Lyubomir Szabo
  • Patent number: 4403803
    Abstract: A passenger and luggage handling system for an air terminal utilizes a unique bus-type vehicle according to the invention which has a passenger compartment in the elongated body which is separated from the luggage compartment extending longitudinally therealong, preferably beneath the passenger compartment. At one end of the vehicle the passenger compartment has an elevatable stairway having a member which can be lifted strictly vertically to the height of the aircraft door, thereby entraining a corresponding number of steps of the stairway also strictly vertically. The luggage compartment is provided with means, e.g. a conveyor, for moving the luggage through this compartment or into and out of the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: Ikarus Karosszeria es Jarmugyar
    Inventors: Valer Szendrodi, Gyula Radics, Tivadar Varga, Tibor Vass, Karoly Gyurics
  • Patent number: 4393955
    Abstract: There is described a motorbus or similar vehicle, which is provided in the top part of the bodywork thereof with a self-supporting structure integrated therein, which extends over the whole vehicle length, whereby said integrated structure bears directly on the wheel axles, in such a way that there is notably a possibility of lowering the vehicule floor due to the omitting of the bearing function of those bodywork structures present below the floor and the taking over of such function by said structure integrated in the top bodywork part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1983
    Assignee: PVBA Van Mullem
    Inventor: Albert Van Mullem
  • Patent number: 4355840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a closed vehicle and a complex equipment for managing services at airports, for the direct transport of passengers and luggages from the administrating and luggage manipulating area to the airplane.The essence of the closed vehicle according to the invention is, that a part of the passenger space is forming a flight of stairs, the height of which can be optionally adjusted, furthermore the passenger space is formed in the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle. Preferably the lifting device of the flight of stairs is fixed to the stair-step, which can be lifted to the highest point. The displacement clearance between the elements connecting the stair-steps following each other corresponds to the height of the stair-step. The attainable maximal height of stairs is determined by the number of stair-steps applied.Preferably, the luggage space is arranged below the passenger space; in the luggage space at least one continuous transit path is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1982
    Assignee: Ikarus Karosszeria- es Jarmugyar
    Inventors: Valer Szendrodi, Gyula Radics, Tivadar Varga, Tibor Vass, Karoly Gyurics