Patent ID: 9550661
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B66F,E04G

Claim:
1. A self-contained portable self-supporting scaffolding kit for mounting adjacent an elevated structure and allowing a user to reach the elevated structure to work thereon, said kit comprising: a support base assembly mounted on wheels, said support base assembly including a hitch assembly and forming a trailer; a tower assembly releasably mounting on the support base assembly, the tower assembly defining a longitudinal axis and including therealong a plurality of tower sections releasably attaching to and on top of one another in an end-to-end configuration, a lowermost tower section of said plurality of tower sections releasably attaching to the support base assembly, each one of said tower sections having two opposite lateral sides each having an opening extending therethrough, for each one of said tower sections, said opening of one of said lateral sides being in alignment with and facing said opening of the other one of said lateral sides; and a platform assembly being movably mounted on the tower assembly for displacement therealong, the platform assembly including a sleeve member mounting around the tower assembly, and a platform member connecting to the sleeve member and extending therefrom in a direction away from at least one of said lateral sides of said plurality of tower sections of the tower assembly, the sleeve member defining opposite sleeve lateral sides thereof generally parallel to the lateral sides of the tower assembly, each one of said sleeve lateral sides having an aperture extending therethrough, said aperture of one of said sleeve lateral sides being in alignment with and facing said aperture of the other one of said sleeve lateral sides, each said aperture and each one of said openings being configured to allow a user to walk through said openings of said opposite lateral sides of said tower sections and said apertures of said sleeve lateral sides of said sleeve member across the sleeve lateral sides and said lateral sides of one of said tower sections, the platform member having a platform surface being generally planar, the platform member being configured for moving along said tower assembly between a portable configuration with the platform surface being adjacent and substantially parallel to both the sleeve member and the longitudinal axis of the tower assembly, and a use configuration with the platform surface being substantially perpendicular to both the sleeve member and the longitudinal axis of the tower assembly, the sleeve member further including a door selectively closing each one of said apertures.