Edge protection system having bridging pins
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsThomas James Murdoch, Greg Stephen Mason
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Abstract
An edge protection system for use with concrete flooring, including a first part for coupling to an edge portion of a first concrete flooring panel and a second part for coupling to an opposed edge portion of a second, neighbouring, concrete flooring panel, wherein the protection system is provided in modular lengths, and wherein adjacent modular lengths are coupled by one or more bridging pins.
Claims20
An edge protection system for use with concrete flooring, the edge protection system comprising:
- a first edge unit configured to extend in a first longitudinal direction and including a first part couplable to an edge portion of a first concrete flooring panel and a second part couplable to an opposed edge portion of a second concrete flooring panel;
- a second edge unit configured to extend in a second longitudinal direction and including a first part couplable to an edge portion of a third concrete flooring panel and a second part couplable to an opposed edge portion of a fourth concrete flooring panel;
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- a bridging pin configured to connect the first edge unit and the second edge unit, the bridging pin including a first end portion configured to longitudinally extend in the first longitudinal direction, a second end portion configured to longitudinally extend in the second longitudinal direction, and a center portion connecting the first end portion and the second end portion, the center portion having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the first end portion and greater than an outer diameter of the second end portion.
An edge protection system bridging pin for use with an edge protection system for concrete flooring, the edge protection system including a first edge unit and a second edge unit, edge protection system bridging pin comprising:
- a first end portion configured to connect to the first edge unit and to longitudinally extend in a first longitudinal direction in which the first edge unit extends;
- a second end portion configured to connect to the second edge unit and to longitudinally extend in a second longitudinal direction in which the second edge unit extends;
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- a center portion connecting the first end portion and the second end portion, the center portion having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the first end portion and greater than an outer diameter of the second end portion.
An edge protection system for use with concrete flooring, the edge protection system comprising:
- a first edge unit configured to extend in a first longitudinal direction and including a first part couplable to an edge portion of a first concrete flooring panel and a second part couplable to an opposed edge portion of a second concrete flooring panel;
- a second edge unit configured to extend in a second longitudinal direction and including a first part couplable to an edge portion of a third concrete flooring panel and a second part couplable to an opposed edge portion of a fourth concrete flooring panel;
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- a bridging pin configured to connect the first edge unit and the second edge unit, the bridging pin including a first end portion configured to longitudinally extend in the first longitudinal direction, a second end portion configured to longitudinally extend in the second longitudinal direction,
- wherein the first longitudinal direction is transverse to the second longitudinal direction, and wherein the first end portion of the bridging pin extends transversely to the second end portion of the bridging pin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.