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US 12,173,520 B2Granted
Prop-brace coupler for construction platform
AssigneeGeorge Charitou
InventorsGeorge Charitou, Mubashir Choudhry
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Abstract
A prop-brace coupler has a first section configured to be selectively connected to a vertical prop member of a construction platform that includes a vertical spacing member and a diagonal bracing member. The prop-brace coupler also has a second section configured to be selectively connected to the vertical spacing member and to the diagonal bracing member.
Claims12
A prop-brace coupler, comprising:
- a first clamp head having a clamp jaw at a front section thereof;
- a second clamp head movably coupled to the first clamp head and having a clamp jaw at a front section of the second clamp head, the first and second clamp heads being configured to move relative to one another between an expanded position, in which a surface feature of a vertical prop member of a construction platform is receivable between the clamp jaws, and a clamped position, in which the surface feature of the vertical prop member is grasped between the clamp jaws, wherein each of the first and second clamp heads has a rear section configured to be selectively connected to at least one of a vertical spacing member of the construction platform or a diagonal bracing member of the construction platform;
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- further comprising at least one plunger pin movably supported on the rear section of the second clamp head and configured for receipt in at least one plunge hole defined in the rear section of the first clamp head, wherein the rear section of the second clamp head includes at least one plunger-pin housing slidably supporting the at least one plunger pin therein.
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A prop-brace coupler, comprising:
- a first clamp head having a clamp jaw at a front section thereof;
- a second clamp head movably coupled to the first clamp head and having a clamp jaw at a front section of the second clamp head, the first and second clamp heads being configured to move relative to one another between an expanded position, in which a surface feature of a vertical prop member of a construction platform is receivable between the clamp jaws, and a clamped position, in which the surface feature of the vertical prop member is grasped between the clamp jaws, wherein each of the first and second clamp heads has a rear section configured to be selectively connected to at least one of a vertical spacing member of the construction platform or a diagonal bracing member of the construction platform;
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- further comprising at least one plunger pin movably supported on the rear section of the second clamp head and configured for receipt in at least one plunge hole defined in the rear section of the first clamp head, wherein the at least one plunger pin includes a first plunger pin configured for receipt in at least one of a channel defined in the vertical spacing member or a channel defined in the diagonal bracing member, and a second plunger pin configured for receipt in at least one of a channel defined in another vertical spacing member or a channel defined in another diagonal bracing member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.