Expansible corridor
AssigneeNisso Sangyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakahiro Enoki, Takashi Hashida
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Abstract
A corridor spanned or suspended between horizontal support members such as girder members in structures such as those of buildings, ships, etc. so that operators can walk or carry out operations on the corridor. The corridor comprises a main corridor and a sub-corridor, connected to the main corridor to adjust the length of the corridor. This corridor can be easily incorporated in and moved from structures to be built, easily transported and housed in narrow spaces and mounted on different length of places by one unit of the corridor.
Claims18
A corridor assembly for spanning a plurality of horizontal supports, comprising:
- a main corridor having a pair of spaced-apart hollow girder members, each girder member having an outer shell and an inner longitudinal opening, and a horizontal scaffolding plate connected between said hollow girder members;
- a sub-corridor having a pair of spaced-apart girder members telescopically received for horizontal sliding in respective ones of said hollow girder members, and a horizontal scaffolding plate connected between said pair of girder members of said sub-corridor, said scaffolding plates of said main corridor and said sub-corridor being at different horizontal locations and said scaffolding plate of said sub-corridor extending through said longitudinal openings of said hollow members so that said sub-corridor can telescopically slide with respect to said main corridor;
- a first foldable handrail connected to each of said hollow girder members of said main corridor foldable from an upright position on said hollow girder members to a folded position lying in a plane substantially parallel to a plane of said horizontal scaffold plate of said main corridor;
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- a second foldable handrail connected to each of said girder members of said sub-corridor, each second foldable handrail foldable from an upright position to a folded position lying substantially parallel to said scaffolding plate of said sub-corridor, each of said second foldable handrails being connected to one of said first foldable handrails so that said first and second handrails remain connected while said sub-corridor telescopically slides with respect to said main corridor.
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