Batten for lift assembly

Abstract

A batten is provided for supporting suspended loads, wherein the batten has a cross section including a peripheral wall having linear and curvilinear segments. The cross section includes channel forming flanges extending along a length of the batten for receiving a lift line clamp.

I claim:  
     
         1 . A batten for connecting to a plurality of lift lines to suspend a load from the batten comprising: 
 (a) an integral elongate batten body, the batten body having a cross-section defined by a pair of spaced channel forming segments, each channel forming segment including a curvilinear length and a channel flange, a bottom end segment, and a vertical linear segment intermediate each channel forming segment and the bottom end segment.    
     
     
         2 . The batten of  claim 1 , further comprising an internal strut extending between the vertical linear segments.  
     
     
         3 . The batten of  claim 1 , further comprising a linear internal strut extending between the vertical linear segments.  
     
     
         4 . The batten of  claim 1 , wherein the lower curvilinear end segment defines a lower channel.  
     
     
         5 . A batten for connecting to a plurality of lift lines to suspend a load from the batten, the batten comprising: 
 (a) a batten body having a cross section at least partially defined by a non-curvilinear peripheral wall, the batten body having a greater resistance to deflection than a 1.5 inch schedule  40  steel pipe.    
     
     
         6 . A batten assembly for connecting to a plurality of lift lines to suspend a load from the batten, the batten comprising: 
 (a) An elongate batten body having a cross section defined by both linear segments and curvilinear segments, the cross section including channel forming flanges extending along a length of the body; and    (b) A lift line clamp slideably received in the channel, the lift line clamp including a flange engaging leg for engaging each of the channel forming flanges.    
     
     
         7 . A batten for connecting to a plurality of lift liens to suspend a load from the batten, the batten comprising: 
 (a) an elongate extruded monolithic batten body, the batten body having a cross section including a pair of spaced channel forming flanges extending along a longitudinal dimension of the batten body.    
     
     
         8 . The batten of  claim 7 , wherein the cross section includes both linear segments and curvilinear segments.