Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Torso harness
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-11
2006-04-11
Thompson II, Hugh B. (Department: 3634)
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Torso harness
C244S15100A, C119S857000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07025171
ABSTRACT:
A safety harness comprises a strap portion for extending over a portion a the person's body to retain the person within the safety harness. The strap portion is fabricated from a flexible material having an elastic extension in the range of approximately 3 to approximately 15% under a tensile load of approximately 10 pounds. The material of the strap portion also preferably has ultimate tensile load of at least approximately 5,000 lbs. A safety harness to be worn by a person to protect the person at a height, at least a section of a shoulder strap of the safety harness comprises a single strap having elastic extension to enable free movement of a person in the safety harness, the elastic extension of the strap being limited to prevent separation of a person from the safety harness.
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Photographs (two) of Recreational Harness available from Rock Solid Manufacturing of Canada, no month and date available.
Photographs (four) of Harness Model 659N available from Bashin Industries, Inc. of Grove City, Pennsylvania.
Bacou-Dalloz Fall Protection, Inc.
Bartony & Hare, LLP
Thompson II Hugh B.
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