Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Torso harness
Patent
1990-04-27
1991-08-06
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Torso harness
248237, 2482317, 269249, A62B 3500
Patent
active
050369490
ABSTRACT:
A motion-stopping safety system for persons, workers, and in one embodiment for roof workers. A gripping anchor for gripping a structural member useful in such systems. In one embodiment a gripping anchor has a C-shaped body member with facing members secured thereto and a line connection device, e.g. an opening or a clevis, shackle, or metal loop, connected to the body member. In one embodiment a motion-stopping safety system uses two or more such anchors between which extend a rope, line, cable, etc., and to which a person's safety tether is movably or immovably attached.
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Crocker Clarence L.
Hewett, Jr. Howard C.
Woodard, Jr. Ward
Machado Reinaldo P.
The Dow Chemical Company
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