Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Ladder and platform – Platform with ladder as support
Patent
1981-08-26
1983-08-30
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Ladder and platform
Platform with ladder as support
248238, E06C 716
Patent
active
044011873
ABSTRACT:
A platform accessory (20) for use with a straight ladder (22) includes a flat deck (40) adapted both to engage a lower rung (26L) of the ladder (22) and to connect to a higher portion of the ladder by a pair of resilient bracket arms (82). Lower portions (86) of the bracket arms are hingedly connected to the deck (40); intermediate portions (88) of the bracket arms (82) wrap around the ladder's side rails (24); and, upper portions (90) of the bracket arms are insertable into apertures formed in the side rails (24). In one embodiment, apertures (32) in the side rails (24) communicate with interior portions of hollow rungs.
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Chin-Shue Alvin
Machado Reinaldo P.
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