Scaffold for an a-frame ladder

Abstract

A scaffold for an A-frame ladder, including a platform for being positioned between two legs of the ladder, supported on a bottom side of the platform intermediate two opposing ends thereof by a rung of the ladder and extending outwardly from opposite sides of the ladder. The scaffold includes a first strut pivotally attached to the bottom side of the platform adjacent one end thereof and extending diagonally downward for engagement with a rung of the ladder below the rung supporting the bottom side of the platform, and a second strut pivotally attached to the bottom side of the platform adjacent the other end and extending diagonally downward for engagement with the rung of the ladder with which the first strut is engaged. A third strut is attached to the bottom side of the platform adjacent the one end thereof in lateral spaced-apart relation to the first strut and extends diagonally downward for engagement with the rung of the ladder with which the first and second struts are engaged, in lateral spaced apart relation to both first and second struts.

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