Rope management tool

Abstract

A tool for managing a rope associated with a waist belt of an arborist or a climber's harness includes a main body having a proximal end configured to attach to the waist belt or climber's harness and a distal end configured to point away from the arborist or climber; a plurality of fingers extending outwardly from the main body of the tool in a descending stair-like array, the plurality of fingers including a topmost finger configured to be nearest to the user of the tool and a lowermost finger extending furthest from the user, the plurality of fingers each configured to receive a section of the rope, each finger having a generally serpentine shape defining in conjunction with an adjacent finger a rope-receiving slot with a closed end in the form of a cavity configured to receive a section of the rope, a tip of each finger being bendable for inserting or releasing a section of the rope.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.