Patent ID: 8123001

Claim:
A platform composed of a combination of parts including frame beams, blocks, and pins which can be assembled and disassembled to erect and dismantle the platform, wherein said frame beams each has an upper flange and a lower flange and said frame beams lie in an end-to-end relation whereby an end portion of one of said frame beams is adjacent an end portion of an other of said frame beams, wherein a pair of said blocks are each removably received between said upper and lower flanges of both said end portion of said one frame beam and said end portion of said other frame beam for connecting said frame beams in the end-to-end relation, each of said blocks having a pair of bores, each of said frame beam end portions having a pair of apertures in said upper flange and a pair of apertures in said lower flange, a first of said pins removably received in one of said pair of bores in each of said blocks and in corresponding ones of said apertures in said upper and lower flanges of said one frame beam, a second of said pins removably received in an other of said pair of bores in each of said blocks and in corresponding ones of said apertures in said upper and lower flanges of said other frame beam thereby connecting said pair of blocks to said one and said other frame beams, whereby, when only one of said blocks connects said one and said other frame beams, said other frame beam is swingable relative to said one frame beam from a position in which said one and said other frame beams are substantially side-by-side to the end-to-end position and whereby said one and said other frame beams are retainable in the end-to-end position when said one and said other frame beams are connected with both of said pair of blocks.