Title: Girder roller fittings

Abstract: A roller fitting adapted to be secured to a length of scaffold tube and to suspend said scaffold tube from a girder, said fitting comprising a main body, a clamp pivotally mounted on the main body, means for releasably holding the clamp to the main body, and a roller rotatably mounted on part of the main body by means of a bearing. The clamp and main body are so shaped that they can receive and hold between them a length of scaffold tube and the arrangement is such that, when the fitting is located in position with the roller bearing on a flange of a girder, the said part of the main body on which the roller is mounted is located over the flange of the girder whereby, in the event of failure or breaking up of the roller or bearing, the said part can engage the flange of the girder.

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Inventors: Kitchen, Roger M. (Sheffield, GB)
Braithwaite, Dennis (Barnsley, GB)

Application Number: 939699
Filing Date: 1978-09-05
Publication_date: 1980-05-06
Assignee: Deborah Services Limited (Wakefield, GB2)
Primary Class(es): 16/106 182/36, 182/150
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1427453	Aug, 1922	Fleming	182/36.
1710693	Apr, 1929	Davidson.
2165221	Jul, 1939	Burton.
2538434	Jan, 1951	Svendsen	16/106.
3066757	Dec, 1962	Robinson et al.	182/36.
3076522	Feb, 1963	Goodell	182/150.
3096064	Jul, 1963	Leonard.
3851729	Dec, 1974	Gordon	182/36.

Other Refs: 5378088297682346523

Jun, 1959	BE
Dec, 1969	CA
Oct, 1977	FR.

Primary Examiner: Byers, Jr., Nile C.
Assistant Examiner: Cohen, Moshe I.
Attorney: Schwartz & Weinrieb