US 2018/0030744 A1 · METHOD FOR ADJUSTABLY SUSPENDING A STRUCTURE

Abstract

A method utilizing an assembly of a sling detachably attached to an adjustment device for suspending one structure relative to another structure. The adjustment device comprises a pair of elongate spaced apart plates which are attached to each other and to a hook, for attachment to one of the structures, at the first end portion. Each plate has a plurality of pairs of longitudinally spaced aligned holes for receiving a pin for connecting one end of a sling to the adjustment device at a selected incremental one of the plurality of pairs of holes. The other end of the sling is connected to the other structure to adjust the distance over which the one structure is suspended relative to the other structure. To allow greater adjustability, two or more of the adjustment devices are joined end-to-end.

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Dependent claims

A method for adjustably suspending one structure relative to an other structure, the method comprising connecting an eye portion on one end of a sling to a selected position along the length of an elongate member, connecting an other end of the sling to the one structure, and connecting an end portion of the elongate member to the other structure.

A method for adjustably suspending one structure relative to an other structure, the method comprising:

providing an elongate member which has a pair of spaced plates each comprising in a sequence longitudinally of each of the spaced plates an end portion, a transition portion integrally connected to the end portion at an end of the transition portion, and an elongate portion integrally connected to an other end of the transition portion, and the end portions are attached to each other, and wherein there is a first spacing between the elongate portions and a second spacing between the end portions, and the second spacing is less than the first spacing, and wherein each of the elongate portions of the spaced plates has a plurality of holes which are spaced longitudinally of the elongate member such that at least some of the holes in one of the elongate portions are aligned with at least some of the holes in the other of the elongate portions;
passing an eye portion on one end of a sling between the elongate portions of the spaced plates;
inserting a pin in the eye portion and in a pair of the aligned holes corresponding to a selected position along the length of the elongate member;
connecting an other end of the sling to the one structure;
and
connecting the end portions of the spaced plates of the elongate member to the other structure.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/727,709Filed 9 Oct 2017

Priority

3 May 2011

Published

1 Feb 2018

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

E04G 3/30
Mobile scaffolds; Scaffolds with mobile platforms: suspended by flexible supporting elements, e.g. cables
E04G 7/04
With separate coupling elements: flexible elements, with or without brackets, e.g. ropes, cables, chains
E04G 7/20
Stiff scaffolding clamps for connecting scaffold members of common shape: for ends of members only, e.g. for connecting members in end-to-end relation
E01D 19/106
Railings; Protectors against smoke or gases, e.g. of locomotives; Maintenance travellers; Fastening of pipes or cables to bridges: movable…

Family

Application61/481,838Us provisional application · filed 3 May 2011

Application13/463,595Division · filed 3 May 2012

Application15/727,709Division

US 10,640,993 B2Related patent

US 9,784,001 B1Related patent

US 2018/0030744 A1This patent

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Method for adjustably suspending a structure

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Method for adjustably suspending a structure

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