Anchor bolt providing for fall protection
OwnerKarl Guthrie, Joseph Schwartzinventors
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Abstract
An anchor bolt providing for fall protection. The anchor bolt has an anchoring device that may be of any standard type, for making use of an aperture either in or through a structure as an anchoring point, an elongate flexible member connected to the anchoring device at one end of the elongate flexible member, and a handle connected to a second end of the flexible member. The handle member is pivotally attached to the second end, for pivoting about the elongate axis of the flexible member as it extends from the second end. Preferably, the anchoring device is a novel, toggling type in which a toggling member is pivotally attached to the flexible member at a ball joint.
Claims21
An anchor bolt for temporarily attaching to a structure having an anchoring aperture therein or therethrough, to provide fall protection to a user, the anchor bolt comprising:
- an elongate flexible member defining, along its length, an elongate axis, and having first and second ends;
- an anchoring device connected to said flexible member at said first end, said anchoring device being adapted so that, by use of manual manipulation that is either direct or remote, the user can cause said anchoring device to adopt at least two different configurations or orientations, a relatively contracted or narrow configuration or orientation in which said anchoring device is effectively dimensionally suited to manual insertion into or through the aperture, and a relatively expanded or bluff configuration or orientation in which said anchoring device is effectively dimensionally unsuited to removal from or through the aperture without substantial resistance;
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- a handle member pivotally attached to said second end, for pivoting about the elongate axis as it extends from said second end.
A toggle bolt for temporarily attaching to a structure having an aperture therethrough, to provide for fall protection, comprising:
- an elongate flexible member defining, along its length, an elongate axis and having an end;
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- an anchoring device connected to said flexible member at said first end, said anchoring device being adapted so that, by use of manual manipulation that is either direct or remote, the user can cause said anchoring device to adopt at least two different configurations or orientations, a relatively contracted or narrow configuration or orientation in which said anchoring device is effectively dimensionally suited to manual insertion into or through the aperture, and a relatively expanded or bluff configuration or orientation in which said anchoring device is effectively dimensionally unsuited to removal from or through the aperture without substantial resistance, wherein said anchoring device includes a toggling member for adopting said orientations, said toggling member being pivotally attached to said cable at said end at a first ball joint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.