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US 12,601,191 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.
Claims14
A construction platform, comprising:
- a vertical prop member, wherein the vertical prop member defines a plurality of vertically-extending grooves that are circumferentially spaced from one another around the vertical prop member;
- a first vertical spacing member;
- a first diagonal bracing member;
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- a first prop-brace coupler including:
- a front section configured to be selectively connected to the first vertical prop member, wherein the front section includes a pair of clamp jaws configured to be selectively connected to a surface feature of the vertical prop member;
- and
- a rear section configured to be selectively connected to the first vertical spacing member and the first diagonal bracing member,
- wherein a first groove of the plurality of grooves of the vertical prop member is configured for removable receipt of one clamp jaw of the pair of clamp jaws of the first prop-brace coupler and a second groove of the plurality of grooves is configured for receipt of another clamp jaw of a second prop-brace coupler such that the first and second prop-brace couplers are positionable at the same vertical position as one another along the vertical prop member.
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