Construction safety anchor means

• US 3,920,221 A
• Filed: 05/31/1973
• Issued: 11/18/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clifford M. Berry, Orson R. Curtis
• Original Assignee: Clifford M. Berry, Orson R. Curtis
• Inventors: Berry, Clifford M., Curtis, Orson R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Dennis L.
• Application Number:
  US05/365,622
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 256/1,59,65 182/113 248/228,229 52/707
• US Class Current: 256/59
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/3223 Means supported by building floors or flat roofs, e.g. safety railings
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/3233 without permanent provision in the floor or roof
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/3242 using clamps
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 5/045 for fastening scaffoldings on profiles, e.g. I or H profiles

Abstract

Safety anchor means for use in conjunction with such as I-beams or reinforcing steel for poured in place reinforced concrete or the like at construction sites, the safety anchor means being disposed at spaced intervals along the I-beam or reinforced concrete and being adapted to support such as safety rails and toe boards and being in part releasably affixed to the I-beam or reinforcing steel for reuse at other construction sites, and being in part embedded in the concrete or fixed to the reinforcing steel and expendable.

Claims

1. In safety anchor means for use in conjunction with such as an I-beam or reinforcing steel for poured-in-place reinforced concrete or the like at spaced intervals along the I-beam or reinforced concrete for the support of safety rails and/or toe boards, the improvement comprising:

expendable anchor support means permanently fixed to the I-beam or reinforcing steel, and safety rail and toe board support means releasably attached to the anchor support means for ready removal and reusE at another construction site the anchor support means including a clamp fixed to the I-beam and a coupling fixed to the clamp, and the safety rail and toe board support means including a shaft releasably engaged with the coupling and a post releasably engaged with the shaft.

2. In safety anchor means for use in conjunction with such as an I-beam or reinforcing steel for poured-in-place reinforced concrete or the like at spaced intervals along the I-beam or reinforced concrete for the support of safety rails and/or toe boards, the improvement comprising:

expandable anchor support means permanently fixed to the I-beam or reinforcing steel, and safety rail and toe board support means releasably attached to the anchor support means for ready removal and reuse at another construction site, the anchor support means including a coupling fixed to the I-beam or reinforcing steel, and the safety rail and toe board support means including a shaft releasably engaged with the coupling and a post releasably engaged with the shaft.

3. In the safety anchor means according to claim 2, the shaft being threadedly engaged with the coupling.