Ladder-based winch-powered plank scaffold
OwnerBrian Kenyoninventor
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Abstract
A plank scaffold system and, more particularly, to a ladder-based vertically-adjustable plank scaffold system. The system may have a pair of ladders, a wall standoff mounted at the top of each of the ladders, a crane support mounted at the top of each of the ladders, a vertical guide bar and roller system to keep it from swinging on the cables, and a horizontal platform suspended on cables below the crane supports, the platform having a pair of cable winches mounted thereon for varying the elevation of the platform. Instead of ladders, tower scaffolds or stage towers may be used on each side to support the vertically-adjustable plank.
Claims16
A ladder-based plank scaffold system, comprising:
- a pair of ladders;
- a wall standoff forming an integrated unit with a crane support and mounted at the top of each of the ladders having a sufficient length to extend from a respective ladder to an adjacent vertical wall, wherein each wall standoff includes a vertical column with two ladder rung braces spaced to rest on top of different rungs of the ladder on which the wall standoff mounts, wherein each integrated unit includes a horizontal portion fixed relative to the vertical column and extending toward the adjacent vertical wall and a cable attachment ring depends down from the horizontal portion, and each integrated unit has two horizontally spaced apart arms fixed relative to the vertical column and extending horizontally to the adjacent vertical wall;
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- a horizontal platform suspended on cables below the crane supports, the platform having a pair of cable winches mounted thereon and operatively engaging the cables for varying the elevation of the platform, wherein the cables for the cable winches are secured to the cable attachment rings.
A ladder-based plank scaffold system, comprising:
- a pair of ladders;
- a crane support mounted at the top of each of the ladders;
- a pair of horizontal stabilizer bars extending from each of the ladders toward the adjacent vertical wall and connected to a vertical roller guide bar;
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- a horizontal platform suspended on cables below the crane supports, the horizontal platform including a pair of roller assemblies each of which engages and is configured to slide or roll up and down along one of the roller guide bars, the platform having a pair of cable winches mounted thereon for varying the elevation of the platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.