Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Combined
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-19
2011-04-19
Chin-Shue, Alvin C (Department: 3634)
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Combined
C248S210000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07926616
ABSTRACT:
A device for attachment to a conventional type of ladder for holding tools and other diverse items in a position for convenient access by a workman on the ladder is described in two embodiments. In both embodiments the device includes a rigid, linearly elongated member carrying a pair of projections having free ends in opposing, spaced relation, the distance between the free ends being selectively adjustable by relative movement of the projections along an axis parallel to a spaced from the axis of the elongated member. In a first described embodiment, the elongated member is formed by a pair of tubular, telescopingly engaged members with one of the projections fixedly mounted to opposite ones of the pair of members. In the preferred embodiment, the elongated member is a one-piece rod with one of the projections fixedly connected thereto and the other projection mounted to a bracket which is slidable along the rod. The projections are positioned with the free ends spaced by a distance greater than the width of the ladder and the device is held with the projections outwardly adjacent openings in the ladder side rails at opposite ends of a selected one of the hollow rungs where the device is to be mounted. The projections are then relatively moved to decrease the distance between the free ends to cause the latter to extend through the openings in the side rails and into opposite ends of the selected rung, thereby releasably mounting the device to the ladder. The diverse items may then be supported by hooks mounted to the elongated member.
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Bond Schoeneck & King , PLLC
Chin-Shue Alvin C
McGuire Charles S.
McGuire George R.
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