Lifeline anchor

A lifeline anchor for securing a safety lifeline to a pre-cast concrete assembly having a gap formed by inner walls between abutting concrete panels comprising:

• a vertically oriented coil rod adapted to be received in said gap formed between the inner walls of said abutting concrete panels, said coil rod having an anchoring member located on a lower end and a threaded portion provided on an upper end, said threaded portion being formed with a longitudinally extending key way;
• a collar assembly disposed around said coil rod said collar assembly having a flat disk at a lower end constructed and arranged to overlie an upper surface of the abutting concrete panels, said flat disk having a central bore through which said coil rod extends and an anchor loop to which a lifeline may be attached, said flat disk further including a pair of spaced apart, downwardly depending, aligned guide bars adapted to sit in said gap, said guide bars having opposed, parallel facing ends spaced apart by said central bore, each of said guide bars extending radially from said central bore to a periphery of said flat disk, said collar assembly further includes a cylindrical spacer disposed on top of said flat disk and over said central bore, and a cylindrical collar secured on top of said cylindrical spacer, said collar including a key engageable with said key way such that rotation of said collar assembly will cause simultaneous rotation of said coil rod;
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• a nut-handle assembly rotatably mounted on said threaded portion of said coil rod:
• said nut handle assembly having a pair of upwardly and outwardly diverging handles;
• whereby with said guide bars disposed above said upper surface of the abutting panels and said anchoring member disposed in said gap, rotation of said collar assembly when keyed to said coil rod will cause the periphery of said anchoring member to lie within the inner walls forming said gap between said abutting concrete panels and permit said guide bars to drop down and sit in said gap to prevent further rotation of said collar assembly and said coil rod, and whereby subsequent rotation of said nut-handle assembly against said collar assembly draws said coil rod and said anchoring member upwardly to positively lock said anchoring member in the pre-cast concrete assembly.