Extensible step for station wagon and like vehicles

Claim 1

IN A MOTOR VEHICLE INCLUDING A BODY HAVING A DOOR OPENING IN ONE END THEREOF, A CLOSURE MEMBER HINGED ON THE BODY FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT ABOUT A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL AXIS BETWEEN A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL OPENED POSITION AND A RETRACTED VERTICALLY INCLINED POSITION CLOSING THE DOOR OPENING, A BUMPER MEMBER MOUNTABLE TRANSVERSELY OF THE VEHICLE IN SPACED RELATION TO THE LOWER PORTION OF THE DOOR OPENING AND HAVING AN OPENING THERETHROUGH SPACED LATERALLY OUTWARDLY OF THE DOOR OPENING, MEANS FOR MOUNTING THE BUMPER MEMBER IN SUCH SPACED RELATION TO THE VEHICLE BODY INCLUDING A BUMPER SUPPORTING GUIDE MEMBER ALIGNED WITH THE BUMPER OPENING AND EXTENDING BETWEEN THE BODY AND BUMPER MEMBER, A STEP SLIDABLY MOUNTED BY THE BUMPER SUPPORTING GUIDE MEMBER FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A RETRACTED POSITION HOUSED BETWEEN THE BODY AND BUMPER MEMBER AND A HORIZONTALLY EXTENDED POSITION PROJECTING OUTWARDLY OF THE BUMPER MEMBER TO FACILITATE ACCESS THROUGH THE DOOR OPENING, AND MOTION TRANSLATING MEANS CONNECTING THE EXTENSIBLE STEP WITH THE HINGED CLOSURE MEMBER AND OPERABLE TO ACTUATE THE STEP BETWEEN ITS RETRACTED AND EXTENDED POSITIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH HINGED SWINGING MOVEMENT OF THE CLOSURE MEMBER BETWEEN ITS RETRACTED CLOSING POSITION AND ITS EXTENDED OPENED POSITION.