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US 12,654,040 B2Granted
Cable grab
AssigneeWerner Co.
InventorDaniel Aleksovski
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Abstract
A cable grab for a fall protection system includes a channel for receiving a safety wire, a cam structured to grab the safety wire in the event of a fall, a lever structured to rotate and cause the cam to grab the safety wire in the event of a fall, and an energy absorber having a working length, a normal webbing portion, and a connection point, wherein the working length or the normal webbing portion are structured to engage the lever in the event of a fall.
Claims20
A cable grab for a fall protection system comprises:
- a channel for receiving a safety wire;
- a cam structured to grab the safety wire in the event of a fall;
- a lever structured to rotate and cause the cam to grab the safety wire in the event of a fall;
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- an energy absorber having a working length, a normal webbing portion, and a connection point, wherein the working length or the normal webbing portion are structured to engage the lever in the event of a fall.
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A cable grab for a fall protection system comprises:
- a channel for receiving a safety wire;
- a channel cover having an unlocked position to provide access to the channel and a locked position to prevent access to the channel;
- a safety pull structured to lock the channel cover in the locked position, wherein the safety pull is structured to be pulled to unlock the channel cover and move the channel cover to the unlocked position;
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- a lever structured to rotate and abut against the channel cover spring when the channel cover spring is unlocked to move the channel cover spring to the unlocked position.
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A cable grab for a fall protection system comprises:
- a channel for receiving a safety wire;
- a cam structured to grab the safety wire in the event of a fall;
- a lever structured to rotate in a clockwise direction independent of the cam across a first range of rotation and is structured to rotate further in the clockwise direction across a subsequent second range of rotation and cause the cam to rotate and grab the safety wire;
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- webbing passing through the lever and configured to attach to a harness, wherein the webbing is structured to cause the lever to rotate in the clockwise direction in the event of a fall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.