Locating pin assembly for a modular frame
AssigneeZ-Modular Holding, Inc.
InventorJulian Bowron
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Abstract
A locating pin assembly for coupling a first modular frame to a second modular frame is disclosed. The locating pin assembly has a first gusset plate positioned between the first modular frame and the second modular frame. The first gusset plate has a first gusset plate aperture and a second gusset plate aperture for receiving fastening means for coupling the first-modular-frame-first-beam and the second-modular-frame-first-beam the gusset plate. The pin assembly also has a pin engaging the first gusset plate, the first modular frame and the second modular frame. Also disclosed are modular frame units having the pin assembly, system of modular frame units having the pin assembly and a method of coupling modular frame units.
Claims12
A locating pin assembly for coupling a first modular frame to a second modular frame, the first modular frame having a first-modular-frame-first-hollow-tubular-member and a first-modular-frame-first-beam coupled at a first end of the first-modular-frame-first-hollow-tubular-member, and the second modular frame having a second-modular-frame-first-hollow-tubular-member and a second-modular-frame-first-beam coupled at a first end of the second-modular-frame-first-hollow-tubular-member, the locating pin assembly comprising:
- a first gusset plate positioned between the first modular frame and the second modular frame, the first gusset plate in contact with the first-modular-frame-first-beam on a first face of the first gusset plate and the second-modular-frame-first-beam on a second face of the first gusset plate, the first gusset plate having a first gusset plate aperture and a second gusset plate aperture, the first gusset plate aperture configured to receive a first fastening means coupling the first-modular-frame-first-beam to the first gusset plate, and the second gusset plate aperture configured to receive a second fastening means coupling the second-modular-frame-first-beam to the first gusset plate;
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- a pin engaging each of the first gusset plate, the first modular frame and the second modular frame, the pin having a flat quadrilateral plate section coupled to an inverted V-shaped section, the inverted V-shaped section coupled to a first end of the flat quadrilateral plate section, the flat quadrilateral plate section engaging the first end of the second-modular-frame-first-hollow-tubular-member, and the inverted V-shaped section engaging the first end of the first-modular-frame-first-hollow-tubular-member.
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