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US 5,289,590 AGranted
Combined working trousers and safety harness
OwnerMikael Larsoninventor
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Abstract
A combined pair of work trousers and safety harness includes a safety harness secured on a liner in the form of innerwear trousers. The buttocks support band of the harness has end portions which spiral up around the wearer's lower torso to above the wearer's waist in front and project out through slots below a waist belt in a pair of outerwear trousers. The buttocks support band ends are provided with structures which permit the harness to be attached to a safety line. Near those ends, the buttocks support band is secured to a waist belt of the outerwear trousers.
Claims3
A pair of work trousers having a built-in safety harness, comprising:
- a safety harness including:
- two thigh bands arranged to encircle a wearer's respective thighs adjacent the wearer's crotch;
- a buttocks support band having a transversely extending central portion arranged to engage a wearer's buttocks from below and thereby potentially support the wearer from under those buttocks;
- the buttocks support band further including end portions which are arranged to spiral from opposite ends of said central portion, upwards and laterally outwards, forwards and then medially inwards and terminate adjacent one another in front of the wearer, near the wearer's waist, in respective structures adapted for attachment to a safety line for potentially supporting the wearer via the buttocks support band;
- securements securing the two thigh bands at rear portions thereof, besides one another to said central portion of said buttocks support band;
- a pair of lining trousers having two respective leg portions depending from a torso portion having an upper end;
- a pair of outerwear trousers having two respective leg portions depending from a torso portion having an upper end provided with a waist belt for closely encircling the wearer's waist;
- securements securing the thigh bands and buttocks support band of the safety harness onto the pair of lining trousers;
- said pair of outerwear trousers having means defining two slots provided therethrough frontally of said torso portion thereof adjacent said waist belt;
- a securement securing plural sites on said upper end of said lining trousers to corresponding plural sites on said upper end of said outerwear trousers;
- upper parts of said end portions of said buttocks support band extending out from between said lining trousers and said outerwear trousers through respective ones of said slots so that said structures adapted for attachment to a safety line are accessible frontally of the wearer from outside said outerwear trousers;
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- securements securing said upper parts of said end portions of said buttocks support band to said waist belt.
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