Bracing device
AssigneeEvertax Corporation
InventorsR. Duane Hefley, Kenneth A. Strode, Michael S. Andrich
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Abstract
A bracing device for bracing a first surface against a second surface is useful for emergency response, commercial, industrial and residential environments. The bracing device has a bracing member with a first end and a second end. A first end member affixed to the first end has a sufficient curvature to produce a substantially convex shape over at least a portion of the end member's external surface for frictionally engaging the first surface. The radius of the convex curvature is predetermined so that the bracing device may be readily adapted to a predetermined range of bracing distances between the first and second surfaces so that the desired bracing strength can be obtained.
Claims25
A bracing device for bracing a first surface against a second surface, the device comprising:
- (a) a bracing member having a first end and a second end, and a first end member affixed to the first end, wherein the first end member has at least one aperture, having an aperture centerline, to serve as a receptacle for the first end of the bracing member;
- (b) wherein at least a portion of the first end member has a substantially convex curvature and material adapted to frictionally engage the first surface, wherein
- (i) the aperture centerline relative to a radius line of convex curvature produces an angle between the aperture centerline and the radius line greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees;
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- (ii) the convex curvature allows the bracing device to be adapted to a predetermined range of bracing distances between the first and second surface so that the desired bracing strength can be obtained;
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- (c) wherein the second end is adapted to engage the second surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.