Safety Anchorage
AssigneeZ-Tex Safety LLC
InventorOscar Zamarron
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Abstract
A construction site safety anchorage comprises a body having a generally trapezoidal body shape and substantial weight, a plurality of recessed, arcuate metal anchors oriented in pockets to optimize worker safety during use, a high-friction bottom surface, slots on the bottom of the invention for use lifting the invention using a forklift, a steel-framed bottom surface, a plurality of incorporated threaded holes for attaching threaded pegs for additional friction and stability, chamfered edges, a recessed, acuate metal anchor on the top of the invention for lifting the invention and a drain hole disposed vertically through the invention.
Claims16
A device suitable to provide anchorage for a safety line connection of a worker's fall restraint harness comprising:
- a heavy body in the shape generally of a trapezoidal solid having a top, a bottom, two sides and two ends;
- wherein the bottom of the sides of the body have a length and the bottom ends have a width;
- wherein the length of the bottom of each side is longer than the width of the bottom of each end;
- wherein the top of each side has a length smaller than the length of the bottom of each side and the top of each end has a width smaller than the width of the width of the bottom of each end;
- wherein the heavy body has a height equal to or smaller than the width of the bottom of each end;
- wherein there is imposed an angle between each end and the bottom between 80 degrees and 89 degrees;
- wherein each end has disposed therein at least one pocket sized and shaped to retain an arcuate metal anchor disposed partially in the heavy body with a portion of the arcuate metal anchor exposed workably externally in the pocket;
- wherein the at least one pocket is disposed in each end at a position below a mid-point of the height of the device;
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- wherein the arcuate metal anchor disposed in the at least one pocket is oriented horizontally across the end relative to the bottom and perpendicularly to the end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.