Patents by Inventor Ken Hensley

Ken Hensley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Expandable dual tube scaffold hatch structure
    Patent number: 7077239
    Abstract: The invention is a scaffold access system for use in a scaffold frame of horizontal and vertical scaffold members. The system includes double barrel scaffold horizontal member, a series of short scaffold boards, a series of long scaffold boards, a short vertical scaffold member, a safety gate, and a series of short horizontal members. The double barrel scaffold horizontal member has a upper tube and a lower tube joined in a vertical relationship and a third tube slidable in the lower tube. Each tube has an interior and an exterior end. The upper tube and the third tube have an attachment member positioned on its respective exterior end. The upper tube has an upstanding vertical stub, to which is attached the short vertical scaffold member. The short scaffold boards and the long scaffold boards are placed on the scaffold frame to define a scaffold deck with an access opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Deltak Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Yates W. Hayman, Ken Hensley, Robert E. Lea
  • Scaffold pick-up device
    Patent number: 6994187
    Abstract: A scaffold pick-up device having a vertical joint clamp which bridges a vertical scaffold joint to stiffen the bridged vertical joint, and a scaffold lift assembly, which attaches onto the top section of a vertical scaffold member and has an attachment point for a shackle or other lifting gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Inventors: Ken Hensley, Yates W. Hayman
  • Intermediate scaffold member join
    Patent number: 6932195
    Abstract: An intermediate scaffold member join comprising a top side, a first side and a second side cooperating to form a channel therebetween. The channel is sized to accept a horizontal scaffold member. The first side has a clamp for attaching to a horizontal scaffold member, the clamp joining a horizontal scaffold member substantially perpendicular to a horizontal scaffold member positioned in the channel. Positioned on the top side is a vertical stub directed away from the channel, where the vertical stub is connectable to a vertical scaffold member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Deltak Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Yates Westley Hayman, Ken Hensley, Robert E. Lea
  • Scaffold pick-up device
    Patent number: 6779631
    Abstract: A scaffold pick-up device having a vertical joint clamp which bridges a vertical scaffold joint to stiffen the bridged vertical joint, and a scaffold lift assembly, which attaches onto the top section of a vertical scaffold member and has an attachment point for a shackle or other lifting gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Deltak Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Hensley, Yates Westley Hayman