Climbing harness with built-in tourniquet
OwnerIshmael L. Antonioinventor
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Abstract
A system of a combined climbing harness and medical tourniquet, and a method for using the system. A looped thigh strap portion of a climbing harness is detachable from the harness belt for separate alternative use as an emergency tourniquet for the user or a patient. The looped thigh strap is provided with features and components to facilitate its use as a functional tourniquet for either an arm or a leg, while nevertheless in ordinary use allowing it to serve as a component of a climbing harness.
Claims20
A combined climbing harness and medical tourniquet system comprising:
- a main belt, adapted to be wrapped about a user's upper hips, and rated to safety standards for use as a weight-bearing climbing harness;
- a climbing-rated center loop on the main belt;
- a thigh strap having a body, the strap wrappable around the user's thigh;
- means for releasably engaging the thigh strap to the main belt;
- a holder loop disposed on the thigh strap body;
- a second loop disposed on the thigh strap body proximate to the holder loop;
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- means for releasably engaging the thigh strap to itself to define a closed loop;
- wherein the holder loop is twistable to shorten an effective circumferential length of the closed loop of the thigh strap.
A system including a climbing harness and a tourniquet comprising:
- a climbing harness apparatus comprising a main belt rated to safety standards for use as a weight-bearing climbing harness and having a climbing-rated center loop secured thereon;
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- a thigh strap engageable to and disengageable from the main belt, and comprising a holder loop and a second loop proximate to the holder loop;
- the thigh strap wrappable around a user's thigh and releasably engageable with itself to define a closed loop;
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- the thigh strap loopable around an injured limb;
- wherein the holder loop is twistable to shorten an effective circumferential length of the closed loop of the thigh strap.
The system of 15 wherein the thigh strap is disengageable from the main belt by opening the carabiner and detaching it from the center loop and from the main strap loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.