Chester Lamar Byrd

US Patent:

42169275, Aug 12, 1980

Filed:

Mar 6, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/883388

Inventors:

Chester L. Byrd - Beggs OK

Assignee:

Air Cargo Equipment Corporation - Tulsa OK

International Classification:

B64D 900

US Classification:

2441181

Abstract:

An apparatus for handling and storing baggage or cargo within an aircraft fuselage including a fuselage door and a plurality of storage platforms with each platform consisting of a flat rectangular base and two upwardly extending side walls closely juxataposed to the shape of the fuselage. The platforms are capable of stacking one atop another when not in use adjacent the fuselage door. Each platform can move longitudinally relative to the aircraft fuselage away from and back towards the fuselage door in a telescoping sequence such that the uppermost platform will move away from said stack first and such that the lowermost platform will always return to said stack first.