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US 6,032,759 AGranted
Ladder with anti-deformed side rails
AssigneeDofair Co., Ltd.
InventorChin-Wen Yeh
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Abstract
A ladder with anti-deformed side rails comprises two tubular side rails, a plurality of rungs, and two tubular inner bushings. Each of the bushings is tightly fitted with the inner surface of each side rail respectively and passed through by the respective end of the lowest rung. Additionally, the longitudinal length of the bushings ranging from 2/5 to 3/5 of the distance between two neighbor rungs, and the thickness of the bushings ranging from 4/5 to 1 of the thickness of the side rails lead to an optimum bending strength for the side rails.
Claims1
A ladder with anti-deformed side rails, comprising:
- two hollow side rails, each of said two side rails having an inner surface respectively;
- a plurality of rungs with two lateral sides, said plurality rungs fixedly connecting said two side rails, providing a predetermined distance between any two neighboring ones of said plurality of rungs;
- and
- a lowermost rung with two ends, said two ends fixedly connecting said two rails;
- and
- two inner bushings, said two inner bushings providing an outer surface and two lateral sides, being shorter than the predetermined distance between said any two neighboring rungs, and being inserted into said two side rails respectively;
- characterized in that
- each of said two inner bushings being in the hollow side rails having the outer surface thereof tightly fitting with the inner surface of the side rails respectively, each of said inner bushings having a first aligned hole and a second aligned hole on said two lateral sides thereof respectively, each of said side rails having a third aligned hole and a fourth aligned hole on said two lateral sides thereof corresponding to said first and second holes, said four aligned holes being passed through by said lowermost rung, said lowermost rung having at each of said two ends thereof first and second retaining protrusions fixedly connecting said lowermost rung to the inner surface of each of said inner bushing and to said side rails, and a third retaining protrusion and a bend back end of said lowermost rung fixedly connecting the outer surface of each of said side rails to said lowermost rung.
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