Patent ID: 7748496

Claim:
An aerial work platform assembly, comprising: a) a platform shaft retaining assembly; b) a mounting bracket connected to said platform shaft retaining assembly; and c) a platform connected to said mounting bracket; wherein said platform shaft retaining assembly includes two concentric apertures for installation of a pivot shaft therein; the mounting bracket having an upper gusset member and a center gusset member that are bonded together and that include horizontal portions to which the pivot shaft is bonded; upper and lower platform pins; a valve bracket; a platform bracket; and upper platform pins that provide for pivoting on a lower platform pin and tilting down of the platform thereby, and wherein the platform shaft assembly, the mounting bracket, the upper and lower platform pins, the valve bracket, and the mounting bracket are constructed in a redesigned manner and are non-conductive and constructed from a three-dimensional integrally and unitarily formed orthogonal woven, multiaxial, or braided preform infused with resin to form a composite material that resists delamination comprising a first fabric-reinforced resin, and wherein the aerial platform assembly is insulated and non-conductive and includes substantially no metal components, wherein the preform is unitarily and integrally constructed by three (3) independent, interlacing, non-crimped yarn systems, the preform providing for no delamination of the composite formed therefrom.