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US 11,492,849 B2Granted
Ladder dock
OwnerCharles J. MacKarvichinventor
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Abstract
A ladder dock system can include a ladder dock including a mounting panel and a connecting panel connected to the mounting panel, the ladder dock defining a ladder notch. The ladder dock system can further include a ladder configured to provide access to an elevated structure and sized to rest against the ladder dock, the ladder notch sized to receive and fix a position of the ladder relative to the ladder dock.
Claims21
A ladder dock comprising:
- a planar mounting panel defining an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface of the mounting panel configured to contact and be secured to a surface of an elevated structure, the mounting panel and the ladder dock terminating in a rearward direction at a rear edge of the mounting panel;
- a ladder rest panel angled with respect to a vertical orientation at an angle when the mounting panel is in a horizontal orientation, the ladder rest panel configured to contact and thereby support a ladder;
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- a planar connecting panel extending from the mounting panel to the ladder rest panel and angled with respect to each of the mounting panel and the ladder rest panel, the connecting panel angled upward with respect to the mounting panel by a bend angle and configured to receive a lip defined in the elevated structure and extending upward from a portion of the elevated structure to which the mounting panel is configured to contact, the ladder dock defining a ladder notch sized to receive and fix a position of the ladder relative to the ladder dock, the ladder dock being formed from a single blank.
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A ladder dock system comprising:
- a ladder dock comprising:
- a planar mounting panel defining an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface of the mounting panel configured to contact and be secured to a surface of an elevated structure, the mounting panel and the ladder dock terminating in a rearward direction at a rear edge of the mounting panel;
- a ladder rest panel angled with respect to a vertical orientation at an angle when the mounting panel is in a horizontal orientation;
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- a planar connecting panel extending from the mounting panel to the ladder rest panel and angled with respect to each of the mounting panel and the ladder rest panel, the connecting panel angled upward with respect to the mounting panel by a bend angle and configured to receive a lip defined in the elevated structure and extending upward from a portion of the elevated structure to which the mounting panel is configured to contact, the ladder dock defining a ladder notch, the ladder dock being formed from a single blank;
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- a ladder configured to provide access to the elevated structure and sized to rest against the ladder dock, the ladder rest panel configured to contact and thereby support the ladder, and the ladder notch sized to receive and fix a position of the ladder relative to the ladder dock.
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A ladder dock comprising:
- a mounting panel defining an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface of the mounting panel configured to contact and be secured to a mounting surface of an elevated structure;
- a ladder rest panel angled with respect to a vertical orientation at an angle when the mounting panel is in a horizontal orientation, the ladder rest panel configured to contact and thereby support a ladder;
- a connecting panel extending from the mounting panel to the ladder rest panel, the connecting panel angled upward with respect to the mounting panel by a bend angle and configured to receive a lip defined in the elevated structure and extending upward from a portion of the elevated structure to which the mounting panel is configured to contact, the ladder dock defining a ladder notch sized to receive and fix a position of the ladder relative to the ladder dock;
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- a stop panel extending from one of the mounting panel, the ladder rest panel, and the connecting panel on a side of the ladder dock proximate to the ladder notch, the stop panel angled with respect to each of the mounting panel and the ladder rest panel, the stop panel configured to contact an outer vertical surface of the elevated structure that is facing the ladder and angled with respect to the mounting surface and thereby prevent one of rotation and translation of the ladder dock with respect to the elevated structure, the ladder dock being formed from a single blank.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.