Foot platform and desk comprising a foot platform

Abstract

A foot support platform has a foot rest plate mounted pivotably on a housing of the foot platform. The lower face of the foot rest plate is supported by a spring. A mechanical detent device locks the foot rest plate in a pivot position. The foot platform is further provided with a remote-controlled mechanical locking device for engagement with the mechanical detent device. There is also described a desk having a foot platform.

Claims

1. A foot platform, comprising: a housing; a foot rest plate pivotally mounted to said housing, said foot rest plate having a lower face; a spring supporting said lower face of said foot rest plate; a mechanical detent device for locking said foot rest plate in a given pivot position; and a remote-controlled mechanical locking facility on said foot rest plate for engaging in said mechanical detent device; said detent device including a perforated plate fastened to said housing in a pivot direction of said foot rest plate, and said locking facility having a spring-loaded latching element disposed on said foot rest plate enabling an insertion thereof laterally from a side into holes in said perforated plate.

2. The foot platform according to claim 1, wherein said spring is a gas spring.

3. The foot platform according to claim 1, wherein said perforated plate is positioned laterally of said foot rest plate on said housing.

4. A foot platform, comprising: a housing; a foot rest plate pivotally mounted to said housing, said foot rest plate having a lower face; a spring supporting said lower face of said foot rest plate; a mechanical detent device for locking said foot rest plate in a given pivot position; and a remote-controlled mechanical locking facility on said foot rest plate for engaging in said mechanical detent device; wherein said detent device has a friction lining fastened to said housing in a pivot direction of said foot rest plate and said locking facility is a spring-loaded friction element disposed for movement against said friction lining from a side.

5. A foot platform, comprising: a housing; a foot rest plate pivotally mounted to said housing, said foot rest plate having a lower face; a spring supporting said lower face of said foot rest plate; a mechanical detent device for locking said foot rest plate in a given pivot position; and a remote-controlled mechanical locking facility on said foot rest plate for engaging in said mechanical detent device, said locking facility including a Bowden cable.

6. A workstation, comprising: a desk; a foot platform according to claim 1 positioned below said desk; and wherein said locking facility of said foot platform is fastened in an easily accessible location to said desk at an end thereof facing away from said foot rest plate.

7. The workstation according to claim 6, wherein said desk is an operator console of a driver control station in a rail vehicle and said foot platform is fastened to a base of said driver control station and said locking facility is fastened with an end facing away from said foot platform laterally forward in an upper region of a recess of said operating console accommodating said foot platform.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

(1) To clarify the invention further

(2) FIG. 1 shows an oblique view of an exemplary embodiment of a desk in the form of an operating console in the driving position of a rail vehicle with an exemplary embodiment of the inventive foot platform,

(3) FIG. 2 shows a further view of the desk according to FIG. 1 with the wall paneling removed in a recess of the desk,

(4) FIG. 3 shows an oblique view of a perforated plate of the detent means and

(5) FIG. 4 shows a side view of the same exemplary embodiment of the foot platform.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

(6) The exemplary embodiment of an inventive desk shown in FIG. 1 is an operating console 1 of a rail vehicle, the rest of which is not shown. As shown in detail in FIG. 1, the operating console is equipped with two workstations, each having a seat 2. The seat at the workstation on the right in FIG. 1 has been removed for greater clarity. Each workstation is provided with a recess 3 below the console 1. A foot platform 4 is accommodated or fastened in the recess 3.

(7) The foot platform 4 has a foot rest plate 6 arranged pivotably by means of a hinge 5 (see FIG. 4). The foot rest plate 6 is equipped with a number of actuating switches 7, 8 and 9 (see FIG. 2) in the form of foot switches.

(8) As shown in particular in FIG. 4, the foot platform 4 has a housing 10, the lower region of which is fastened to a rail 11 of the rail vehicle. As also shown in FIG. 4, a gas spring 12 is fastened pivotably to the housing 10 by its one end 13 below the foot rest plate 4. Another end 14 of the gas spring 12 engages with the bottom of the foot rest plate 4, thereby applying a torque to the foot rest plate 4 in the direction of the arrow 15.

(9) To control the action of the gas spring 12, a perforated plate 17 with a number of holes 18 is fastened to the housing 10 in the direction of the pivot movement of the foot rest plate 4 to the side of the foot rest plate 4, therefore next to the foot rest plate 4. A spring-loaded latching element 19 (only shown schematically in FIG. 4) of a locking facility can engage in said holes 18 to lock the foot rest plate 4 in an established optimum position.

(10) The latching element 19 can be part of a locking facility embodied in the form of a Bowden cable 20, as shown in FIG. 2. The Bowden cable 20 here is connected at its end 21 away from the foot rest plate 4 to an actuation facility 22, which is embodied here as a switch lever.