US Patent Issued to RJM FITTINGS on April 21 for "Coupling device for scaffolding" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,212, issued on April 21, was assigned to RJM FITTINGS Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Coupling device for scaffolding" was invented by Richard Marshall (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupler device (10), for connecting two overlapping building elements (V, H) at substantially right angles. The device includes a main body (11) and two hingedly attached gate elements (12, 13) extending at perpendicular and offset axes from the body. Each gate element respectively includes an associated tightening mechanism, e.g. a rod (17, 20) with threaded end engaging with a nut (19, 22), for controlling closing force...