Improvement in or relating to a shoring leg: a shoring leg with a latch
AssigneeSGB Holdings Limited
InventorDemetrios G. Papadopoulos
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Abstract
A shoring leg provided with a latch for use in maintaining an end plate on the shoring leg and a jack collar in a predetermined position relative to each other, the latch comprising a latch member mounted on the leg to execute a movement from a latching position to a release position, the latch member defining a recess jaw adapted, when in the latching position, to receive part of the leg end plate and to receive a corresponding part of an adjacent collar of a jack to retain the end plate and the collar in said predetermined position, there being means to retain the latch member in the latching position.
Claims10
A shoring leg, an end plate mounted on the shoring leg, and a latch mounted on the shoring leg for use in maintaining the end plate in a predetermined position relative to a collar present on a jack, the latch comprising a latch member, means mounting the latch member relative to the leg, whilst enabling the latch member to execute a movement, relative to the leg from a latching position to a release position, the latch member defining a recess adapted, when the latch is in the latching position, to receive part of the leg end plate and to receive a corresponding part of an adjacent collar of said jack to retain the end plate and the collar in said predetermined position, there being means to retain the latch member in the latching position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.