Method and a system for the erection of high buildings
OwnerRolf A. M. Petreninventor
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Abstract
The invention concerns a scaffolding system for use at the erection of high buildings and solves the problem of providing a suspended scaffold which is stepwise lifted to higher levels but yet in constant communication with ground level. The patented system comprises two scaffold categories the one (1) being permanently directly accessible from ground and the other (2, 3) being successively lifted to higher levels and, between the lifting operations, held suspended from the building itself rather than from lifting cranes.
Claims8
In a method of erection of a high building, or the like, having a plurality of superimposed floor levels, and a plurality of vertically extending columns (1, 2, 3) located at horizontally spaced locations, and using a scaffold,
- the steps of:
- (a) placing a base scaffold unit of at least two floor heights and having interconnected platforms along one column, said base scaffold unit being accessible from the ground;
- (b) extending the height of the scaffold along said one column by adding a sequential scaffold unit on said base scaffold unit, as the height of the column is increased during construction of the building;
- (c) placing a further scaffold unit of at least two floor level heights and having interconnected superimposed platforms along another column;
- (d) securing the uppermost platform of the further scaffold unit on the other column;
- (e) then, as the height of the other column is increased during construction of the building, hoisting said further scaffold unit up the other column;
- and repeating steps (a), (b), (e) and (d) during further construction of the building to move the other scaffold unit upwardly as the height of the building increases during construction, while providing ground level communication via the sequentially increasing scaffold units along said one column.
Scaffolding system for use in the erection of a building, or the like, having a plurality of superimposed floor levels, in which the building, in construction, includes a plurality of vertically extending columns located at horizontally spaced locations, comprising
- a plurality of scaffold units, each scaffold unit being at least of two floor level heights and having interconnected platforms, one scaffold unit forming a base scaffold unit and being placed along one column, and superimposed scaffold units being placed on said base scaffold unit;
- and at least one further scaffold unit of at least two floor level height and having interconnected platform units secured to another beam intermediate the length thereof and spaced from ground level, said other platform unit having releasable attachment means secured to the upper platform of the further scaffold unit and to the associated column;
- and means to hoist the other platform unit up the other beam, ground communication for workers on the other platform unit being provided by the superimposed platform units along the said one beam accessible from ground level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.