Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Pole or strand grasping-type climber – Foot- or leg-attachable
Patent
1989-01-17
1990-09-04
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Pole or strand grasping-type climber
Foot- or leg-attachable
182187, 108152, A45F 326, A47C 910
Patent
active
049536621
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for climbing a tree or like vertical columnar member comprising an upper climbing member including a main frame having a tree engagement gripper support attached to the terminal ends of the main frame, lower gripper means attached to said gripper support and positioned to provide gripping pressure against a tree, a shaped rail attached to said main frame opposite the terminal ends thereof, and comprising an elevated safety-bar portion in the form of a convoluted loop with two open ends, a tree engagement portion in telescopic sliding adjustment engagement with the open ends of the shaped rail for selectively affixing the shaped rail to a tree, upper gripper means attached to the tree engagement portion and positioned to provide gripping pressure against the tree, a plurality of vertical rear bracing means positioned near the terminal ends of the main frame and joining the main frame to the shaped rail, a main frame platform covering the area between the center and the non-terminal ends portion of the main frame, a plurality of opposed vertical center bracing means joining said main frame and shaped rail, a pair of pivotable tubular holders mounted on opposed vertical center bracing means, a detachable seat telescopically inserted into the tubular holders and a foot climber member.
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Machado Reinaldo P.
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