Scaffold and method
View Patent ↗A scaffold includes a first end frame assembly. The scaffold includes a second end frame assembly. The scaffold includes a first side brace assembly supported by the first end frame assembly and the second end frame assembly. The scaffold includes a second side brace assembly supported by the first end frame assembly and the second end frame assembly. Each end frame assembly has a first rail with holes and a caster assembly and a second rail with holes and a caster assembly, and a horizontal that is attached to each rail. Each side brace assembly has a locking pin in proximity to each end which engages with a hole in a respective rail, and an associated guard disposed about each pin. Each locking pin has a handle which has a length that extends below the associated guard on an interior side of the guard. A method for a scaffold.
1. A scaffold comprising:
a first end frame assembly having a first vertical rail with holes and a first caster assembly, a second vertical rail with holes and a second caster assembly, and a horizontal rung that is attached between the first and second vertical rails;
a second and frame assembly having third and fourth vertical rails with holes and a horizontal rung attached therebetween;
a first horizontal side brace assembly having a first vertical channel with holes, a second vertical channel with holes, a first horizontal beam connecting said vertical channels, a guard rod extending downwardly from the first beam and directly connected between the first beam and the first vertical channel, an L-shaped locking pin formed by a first portion having a major length extending substantially orthogonally to a major length of a second portion of the locking pin, wherein the first side brace assembly is supported by the first and third vertical rails of the first and second end frame assemblies, and the first portion of the locking pin is configured to removably pass through holes of the first vertical rail and the first vertical channel to adjustably lock the first side brace assembly at different heights along the first end frame assembly;
a second side brace assembly supported by and extending between the second and fourth vertical rails of the first and second end frame assemblies;
all elements of the guard rod, the first portion of the locking pin, the vertical channels, the first vertical rail, the third vertical rail and the first beam lie within and define a first vertical plane;
all elements of the second vertical rail, the fourth vertical rail and the second side brace assembly lie within and define a second vertical plane that is substantially parallel to the first vertical plane; and
the major length of the first portion of the locking pin is configured to pivot about a horizontal axis which only extends within the first vertical plane so that the second portion of the locking pin moves towards the second vertical plane to be positioned into a space located between said vertical planes, wherein the guard rod is positioned below the first portion of the locking pin a distance less than the major length of the second portion of the locking pin and the first beam is positioned above the first portion of the locking pin a distance less than the major length of the second portion of the locking pin so that the locking pin is directly blocked by one of said first horizontal beam and said guard rod when the second portion of the locking pin is moved in a direction away from said second vertical plane, and wherein the locking pin is incapable of moving beyond an opposite side of said first vertical plane with respect to said second vertical plane.
2. The scaffold as described in claim 1 including latch pins which hold a deck onto the first and second side brace assemblies.
3. The scaffold as described in claim 2 wherein the first side brace assembly has a knee brace that is attached to and extends between the first vertical channel and the first horizontal beam, and the knee brace is disposed about the guard rod.