Guardrail safety bracket

A guardrail bracket comprising:

• a vertically disposed flat triangular gusset plate with a horizontal margin, a vertical margin and a hypotenuse margin;
• a horizontally disposed base plate joined to the horizontal margin of the gusset plate and extending therefrom in a transverse direction, the base plate being elongated in a longitudinal direction at right angles to the transverse direction, a plurality of slots being formed through the base plate and being longitudinally aligned, each slot adapted to receive therethrough a fastener for fastening the bracket to a substrate at any of a plurality of fastener positions along the slot;
• a first vertical plate joined only to the vertical margin of the gusset plate and extending therefrom in the transverse direction;
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• a sloping plate joined only to the hypotenuse margin of the gusset plate and extending therefrom in the transverse direction, a top end of the sloping plate being spaced from the first vertical plate so as to be adapted to receive therebetween at least one guardrail upright.

A guardrail bracket comprising:

• a vertically oriented gusset plate having a bottom margin, a vertical margin and a third margin at an angle to the vertical margin;
• a horizontally oriented base plate having a first margin joined to the bottom margin of the gusset plate and a second margin opposed to the first margin, at least one orifice formed throught eh base place and adapted to receive a fastener for fastening the bracket to a substrate;
• a first vertical plate extending in the transverse direction from the vertical margin of the gusset plate;
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• an elongate fourth plate extending in the transverse direction from third margin of the gusset plate, the fourth plate having a first end proximate to the first vertical plate and a second end remote from the first vertical plate, the first end of the fourth plate being spaced from the first vertical plate by an upright opening, the upright opening adapted to receive at least one vertical upright of a guard rail.

A guardrail comprising:

• at least one upright;
• a guardrail bracket, a vertically disposed triangular gusset plate of the bracket having a vertical margin, a bottom margin and a hypotenuse margin;
• a horizontally oriented base plate of the bracket joined to and extending in a transverse direction from the bottom margin of the gusset plate, at least one orifice formed through the base plate for receiving a fastener for attaching the base plate to a substrate;
• a first vertical plate of the bracket joined to and extending in the transverse direction from the vertical margin of the gusset plate, the gusset plate extending in a rearward direction from the first vertical plate wherein the rearward direction is at right angles to the transverse direction;
• a sloping plate of the bracket joined to and extending in the transverse direction from the hypotenuse margin of the gusset plate, the sloping plate having a top end proximate to the first vertical plate and remote from the base plate, and a bottom end proximate to the base plate and remote from the first vertical plate, the top end of the sloping plate being rearwardly spaced from the first vertical plate to define an upright opening, the at least one upright closely received in the upright opening;
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• the bottom end of the sloping plate being upwardly spaced from the base plate to define a base board opening, a base board being closely received in the base board opening and disposed to be adjacent the base plate, whereby a shear force impinging on the at least one upright from a frontward direction opposed to the rearward direction will be transmitted by the sloping plate to the base board and the base plate.