Workstation

• US 10,662,706 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2016
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Heff Industries Inc.
• Original Assignee: Heff Industries Inc.
• Inventors: Heffernan, Matthew Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, John C
• Application Number:
  US15/280,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20170089135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/02 of table type
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/06 Trays
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 5/003 Devices for storing material on the scaffold
• CPC Class Codes: E06C 7/14 Holders for pails or other equipment on or for ladders

Abstract

A workstation for supporting work articles at an elevated position comprising a base plate; a workstation mount connected to the base plate and configured to selectively mount the workstation on one of a ladder and a railing; and at least one tray sized and arranged for being inserted into the at least one tray opening and thereby installed in the workstation, the at least one tray being selectively removable from the tray opening to separate the tray from the base plate.

Claims

1. A workstation for supporting work articles at an elevated position, the workstation comprising:

a base plate configured to support the work articles having a top, a bottom, and a thickness extending therebetween, the base plate including an inner perimeter edge margin that defines a ladder opening extending through the thickness of the base plate, the ladder opening being sized and arranged for receiving a top end portion of a folding ladder therein such that the inner perimeter edge margin of the base plate is seated on the top end portion of the ladder; and

a workstation mount attached to the base plate and configured to selectively secure the workstation to the ladder, the work station mount comprising;

a hook member configured for hooking engagement with a bottom portion of a rung of the ladder that is spaced apart below said top end portion of the ladder; and

a tensioner connected between the hook member and the base plate and configured to be selectively tensioned to impart a mounting force between the hook member and the base plate that urges the hook member and the base plate toward one another, whereby the tensioner forces the base plate downward to maintain said seated engagement between the inner perimeter edge margin of the base plate and the top end portion of the ladder and forces the hook member upward to maintain said hooking engagement with said rung of the ladder.

2. A workstation as set forth in claim 1 wherein the tensioner comprises a turnbuckle.

3. A workstation as set forth in claim 1 wherein the workstation mount further comprises a mounting bracket attached to the base plate and including a segment configured to hook beneath a top rung of the ladder when the ladder opening receives the top end portion of the ladder therein.

4. The workstation of claim 1 wherein the ladder opening extending through the thickness of the base plate is rectangular.

5. A workstation for supporting work articles at an elevated position, the workstation comprising:

a base plate having a top, a bottom, and a thickness extending therebetween, the base plate defining a plurality of tool holes extending through the thickness of the base plate, the tool holes each being shaped and arranged for receiving a narrow end portion of a tool therethrough such that a wide end portion of the respective tool is supported on the top of the base plate, the base plate further defining at least one tray opening extending through the thickness of the base plate;

a workstation mount connected to the base plate and configured to selectively mount the workstation on a ladder; and

at least one tray sized and arranged for being inserted into the at least one tray opening and thereby installed in the workstation, the at least one tray being selectively removable from the tray opening to separate the tray from the base plate;

wherein the base plate further comprises an inner perimeter edge margin that defines a ladder opening extending through the thickness of the base plate, the ladder opening being sized and arranged for receiving a top end portion of a folding ladder such that the inner perimeter edge margin of the base plate is seated on the top end portion of the ladder.

6. The workstation of claim 5 wherein the ladder opening extending through the thickness of the base plate is rectangular.