Supportive body harness

A supportive body harness, such as may be used for supporting a human body in conjunction with a checked-release means having continuous upward pull and thus imparting a continuous upward pull through the body harness, comprising, in combination:

• an uppermost support means for supporting connection to associated overhead support means at an elevation above the head of the person using the body harness;
• shoulder support means for supporting the person's shoulders by passing under his or her armpits;
• support means for operatively supporting the shoulder support means from the uppermost support means;
• a back supporting means operatively interconnecting the shoulder support means, and passing across the back of a person using the body harness;
• a front supporting means operatively interconnected to the shoulder support means, and passing across the chest of a person using the body harness;
• supporting strips operatively supportingly connected to the uppermost support means;
• a buttocks-support means having a forward supporting portion crossing the front of the person using the body harness in the general front body area above the person's pelvis but below the person's navel;
• the buttocks-support means also having a rearward supporting portion crossing the rear of the legs of the person using the body harness in the area just below the person's buttocks;
• the supporting strips being operatively supportingly connected to the buttocks-support means;
• the support of the shoulder-support means and the buttocks-support means being from the uppermost support means but in an inter-related manner by co-ordinating means as set forth below;
• co-ordinating means operatively but movably connected to both the supporting strips which are connected to the buttocks-support means and to forward portions of the shoulder support means, the co-ordinating means achieving the plurality of factors of (a) maintaining the upper portions of the supporting strips, which are supportingly connected to the buttocks-support means, spaced laterally outwardly away from the head of the person using the body harness, and (b) operatively supportingly interconnecting the said buttocks-support supporting strips and thus also the user's buttocks-support means to the shoulder support means for achievement of a comfort-enhancing load-sharing or load-spreading as between the shoulder support means and the buttocks-support means, and (c) assuring that buttocks-support supporting strips will always be forwardly of the user's body and that tensile force in the buttocks-support supporting strips will have an upward component directed forwardly of the user's body, thus better assuring that even if the person is in a forward-falling body posture the increased tensile force in the supporting strips forwardly located with respect to the user's body will be operative to help pull the user's legs upwardly toward a seated position, and (d) prevents a direct lineal pull in a direction direct toward the uppermost support means in the situation of a falling-backward posture which would tend to act to pull the user's legs so high as to drop the user flat on the user's back.