Claims
- 1. A shoring frame brace, comprising said brace being constructed substantially from aluminum rectangular tubing in the form of a right non-isosceles triangle with the acute angled apices formed with short blunted portions at right angles to the respective adjacent leg, each such portion having a pair of lateral bolt holes extending therethrough in a direction parallel to its adjacent leg, and additional pairs of bolt holes perpendicular to the plane of the triangular surface of said brace and through each of said legs at both the outer and the inner portion of each end thereof, all of said pairs of bolt holes being aligned along the length of said legs or of said portions, said outer pairs of holes being adapted for use in bolting said brace to flanges on a shoring frame leg, and said inner pairs of holes being adpated for use in bolting to a bracing stud mount.
- 2. A brace according to claim 1, wherein said inner perpendicular pairs of holes are each slightly offset away from the end of its respective leg relative to the corresponding outer pair of holes whereby any weakening effect of overlapping such holes is diminished, and a third pair of inner holes for use in mounting said stud mount when used with shorter frame legs is provided on each leg spaced slightly longitudinally removed from the other inner pair of holes at that end of a respective leg which intersects at right angles with the other leg.
- 3. A brace according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said blunted portions are made from a block of aluminum and additionally have inner and outer pairs of perpendicular holes therethrough.
- 4. A disassemblable, size adjustable, shoring frame system comprising the following structural elements capable of being assembled in the field as a shoring frame:
- a pair of load-bearing tubular frame legs each having an integral pair of parallel longitudinally-extending flanges;
- bracing means for extending between and fastening to each of the frame legs by the respective flanges thereof with said frame legs parallel to each other, said bracing means including at least a pair of substantially identical right triangular braces, wherein at least the two apices of the triangular braces adjacent a hypotenuse thereof are blunted so as to form short blunted portions parallel to a brace leg opposite the blunted apex; and
- disconnectable fastening means for demountably joining said bracing means to the flanges of said legs.
- 5. A shoring frame system according to claim 4, wherein said bracing means has upper and lower portions, each portion being adapted to extend between and fasten to each of said legs by the respective flanges thereof with said legs parallel to each other.
- 6. A shoring frame system according to claim 5, wherein said triangular braces are non-isosceles, said fastening means comprise bolt holes in said flanges and perpendicular bolt holes in both ends of both legs of each of said triangular braces corresponding to selected ones of said holes in said flanges whereby said braces are adapted to be fastened to said flanges by either leg of each brace; the apex of each triangular brace is blunted at right angles to its adjacent leg and has at least one bolt hole through each blunted apex in a direction parallel to such adjacent leg whereby said braces are adapted to be fastened together as a pair at facing apices with the adjacent leg of one brace in line with the adjacent leg of the other brace.
- 7. A shoring frame system according to claim 6, wherein the blunted apices of said triangular braces also have perpendicular bolt holes therethrough adapted to align with selected ones of said holes in said flanges of said frame legs.
- 8. A shoring frame system according to claim 6, wherein said legs and braces are aluminum, and said bolt holes occur in pairs.
- 9. A shoring frame system according to claim 8, wherein said braces are made substantially from rectangular tubing.
- 10. A shoring frame system according to claim 9, wherein said upper bracing means comprise said pair of triangular braces, said lower bracing means comprise a rectangular aluminum tubular beam of a length determined by symmetrically aligning the legs of said pair of braces, said beam having stubs extending at right angles from either end with a bolt hole at each end of each stub and spaced to correspond to selected ones of said holes in said flanges.
- 11. A shoring frame comprising the components recited in claim 4 and assembled in accordance therewith, wherein said bracing means extends between parallel frame legs and is joined to said pairs of flanges.
- 12. A shoring frame according to claim 11, wherein bracing means consists of a single pair of non-isosceles triangular braces, which braces having said blunted portions at right angles to the respective brace leg braces are symmetrically fastened at said respective blunted apices with the adjacent legs in line and with the respective remaining legs each seated in between and fastened to a pair of flanges on the respective frame legs; said legs and braces being made of aluminum.
- 13. A shoring frame according to claim 11, wherein said bracing means has upper and lower portions, each portion being adapted to extend between and fasten to each of said legs by the respective flanges thereof with said legs parallel to each other.
- 14. A frame according to claim 13, wherein said triangular braces are non-isosceles.
- 15. A frame according to claim 14, wherein said upper bracing means consists of said pair of triangular braces which are symmetrically fastened together at said respective blunted apices with the adjacent legs in line and with the respective remaining legs each seated in between and fastened to a pair of flanges on respective frame legs.
- 16. A frame according to claim 15, wherein said bracing fastening means comprise bolt holes in said flanges and perpendicular bolt holes in both ends of both legs of each of said triangular braces corresponding to selected ones of said holes in said flanges and bolts removably securing said braces to said flanges through overlapping selected ones of said holes; said apex fastening means comprising at least one lateral bolt hole through each blunted apex portion of each triangular brace in a direction parallel to its adjacent brace leg.
- 17. A frame according to claim 16, wherein said bracing fastening means further comprises perpendicular bolt holes through the blunted apex portions of said triangular braces.
- 18. A frame according to claim 15, comprising at least four adjustably mountable bracing stud means secured to said each of said upper and said lower bracing means adjacent said frame legs.
- 19. A frame according to claim 18, wherein said legs and braces are aluminum and said braces are made substantially from rectangular tubing.
- 20. A frame according to claim 19, wherein said lower bracing means consists of a second pair of substantially identical triangular braces similarly symmetrically mounted as a bracing unit aligned between and fastened to the pairs of flanges of said respective frame legs.
- 21. A frame according to claim 20, wherein said bracing fastening means comprise bolt holes in said flanges and perpendicular bolt holes in both ends of both legs of each of said triangular braces corresponding to selected ones of said holes in said flanges and bolts removably securing said braces to said flanges through overlapping selected ones of said holes; said apex fastening means comprising at least one lateral bolt hole through each blunted apex portion of each triangular brace in a direction parallel to its adjacent brace leg; bolts fastening said triangular braces together in pairs through respectively aligned pairs of said lateral bolt holes.
- 22. A frame according to claim 19, wherein said lower bracing means consists of a rectangular aluminum tubular beam of a length determined by said aligned legs of said pair of braces, stubs extending at right angles from either end of said beam with each fastened in a respective pair of flanges such that said beam extends between said frame legs.
- 23. A frame according to claims 18, 19, or 22, wherein said bracing fastening means comprise bolt holes in said flanges and perpendicular bolt holes in both ends of both legs of each of said triangular braces corresponding to selected ones of said holes in said flanges and bolts removably securing said braces to said flanges through overlapping selected ones of said holes; said apex fastening means comprising at least one lateral bolt hole through each blunted apex portion of each triangular brace in a direction parallel to its adjacent brace leg; at least one bolt fastening said triangular braces together in a pair through at least one aligned pair of said lateral bolt holes.
- 24. A frame according to claim 23, wherein bolt holes occur in pairs.
- 25. A frame according to claim 22, wherein said bracing fastening means further comprises a bolt hole at each end of each stub, said holes on each stub being spaced to correspond to selected ones of said holes in said flanges, and bolts securing said stubs to said respective flanges.
- 26. A frame according to claim 22, wherein said beam is extendable in length so as to accommodate said pair of triangular braces being fastened with either their respective short legs aligned or their respective longer legs aligned.
- 27. A frame according to claim 14, wherein said bracing fastening means comprise bolt holes in said flanges and perpendicular bolt holes in both ends of both legs of each of said triangular braces corresponding to selected ones of said holes in said flanges and bolts removably securing said braces to said flanges through overlapping selected ones of said holes; said apex fastening means comprising at least one lateral bolt hole through each blunted apex portion of each triangular brace in a direction parallel to its adjacent brace leg.
- 28. A frame according to claim 27, wherein said bracing fastening means further comprises perpendicular bolt holes through the blunted apex portions of said triangular braces.
- 29. A frame according to claim 28, wherein said bracing fastening means further comprises bolts removably securing said triangular braces to a frame leg by passing through said perpendicular holes in said blunted portions and through overlapping holes in a pair of the frame leg's flanges.
- 30. A frame according to claims 21, 27, or 28, wherein bolt holes occur in pairs.
- 31. A disassemblable, size adjustable, shoring frame system comprising the following structural elements capable of being assembled in the field as a shoring frame:
- a pair of load-bearing tubular frame legs each having an integral pair of parallel longitudinally-extending flanges;
- bracing means for extending between and fastening to each of said legs by the respective flanges thereof with said legs parallel to each other, said bracing means including at least a pair of substantially identical right triangular braces, wherein at least the two apices of the triangular braces adjacent a hypotenuse thereof are blunted so as to form short blunted portions parallel to a brace leg opposite the blunted apex, the blunted portions and the brace legs each being of an appropriate width to fit between the two parallel flanges of the frame legs; and
- disconnectable fastening means for demountably joining said bracing means to the flanges of said legs, including bolt holes in said flanges, corresponding perpendicular bolt holes in the brace legs of each of the triangular braces by which the flanges of either leg of each brace can be fastened to said flanges, and perpendicular bolt holes through the blunted portions of said triangular braces to be aligned with selected ones of the bolt holes in the flanges of said frame legs.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of patent application Ser. No. 339,726 filed Jan. 15, 1982 and now abandoned.
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