Load carrying system with friction-enhanced load carrying embrasure
AssigneeCirqueWorks LLC
InventorThomas R. Routh
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Abstract
A user borne load carrying system comprising a support structure that is securable to, or otherwise carryable by, a user, and a retention mechanism to secure a load to the support structure. The retention mechanism includes a girth-like embrasure of friction enhancing material adapted to encircle the load. The retention mechanism further includes an adjustment mechanism in the form of a strap mechanism coupled to the support structure and extending across the embrasure. The strap mechanism urges the embrasure and load against each other and the support structure to thereby secure the load to the support structure.
Claims9
A user borne load carrying system comprising:
- a support structure securable to a user and having laterally spaced sides, and a rear expanse intermediate said sides wherein a load is adapted to be secured adjacent said rear expanse;
- a strap mechanism operatively coupled to said support structure, said mechanism comprising a first strap portion having a first end portion connected to said structure at a first location adjacent one of said sides and a second end portion connected to said structure at a location intermediate said first and second sides and laterally spaced from said first location, and a second strap portion having a first end portion connected to said structure at a second location adjacent the other of said sides and a second end portion connected to said structure at a location intermediate said first and second sides and laterally spaced from said second location;
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- a fastener mechanism configured to selectively and releasably couple said first strap portion at a location along its length which is between said first and second end portions thereof in a substantially collinear relationship with said second strap portion at a location along its length which is between said first and second end portions thereof, thereby to form a loop extending across said expanse and the load.
A user borne load carrying system comprising:
- a support structure securable to a user and having laterally spaced sides, and, intermediate said sides, a rear expanse adjacent which a load is to be secured, the laterally spaced sides being configured to lie proximal to either side of the user's back;
- a cinch coupled to the support structure at a first point adjacent one of the lateral sides and a second point adjacent the other of the lateral sides and extending therebetween across the rear expanse;
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- a load wrap including two elongate free end portions and a middle region disposed between and connecting the free end portions, with the load wrap being secured to the rear expanse only in the middle region and disposed generally between the first and second points and with the middle region having a length between the free end portions that is substantially less than the distance between first and second points, the free end portions thereby being free to extend away from the rear expanse adjacent the middle region and to turn back selectively toward one another to wrap the load disposed adjacent the rear expanse, with the load wrap being disposed between the cinch and the rear expanse so that tightening of the cinch urges the load wrap against the load and urges both the load and load wrap against the rear expanse.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.