Patent ID: 6942199
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: E01F,E04G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A counter-balance weight for a modular safety rail comprising a solid body which defines a substantially planar major surface which, in use, is intended to rest on a support surface, said body defining a through-bore for receiving an end of a spacer member, said body having a pair of substantially parallel end faces, said through-bore extending continuously through the body between the end faces, said body further defining a screw-threaded aperture which extends through said body to intersect with said through-bore, said body being of a substantially triangular shape as considered in transverse cross-section in a plane substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the through-bore, and said triangular shape having opposite said major surface an apex region, the angle of which is in the range 100° to 165°.