Protection device for roof and floor openings
AssigneePeter R. Phinney
InventorsPeter R. Phinney, Timothy L. Ahner
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Abstract
A protective device is provided to prevent humans from accidentally falling through openings in roofs or floors, including the domes of curb-mounted skylights and temporary utility chases that are surrounded by a raised curb. The protective device is secured to the raised curb by clamps that do not penetrate the curb, skylight frame, floor or roof, and therefore do not compromise the water-tight integrity thereof. In the case of an opening type skylight, by securing the protective device to the curb, no interference is contributed to the skylight to hinder the opening mechanism of the skylight.
Claims24
A protective device for an opening in a roof or floor that is surrounded by a raised curb, said protective device comprising:
- a perimeter barrier wall adapted to surround said opening and being effective to prevent a human from traversing therethrough, and a plurality of clamps connected to said barrier wall, said plurality of clamps being adapted to clamp said barrier wall to said curb without penetrating said curb, roof or floor, each of said clamps being extendable from (a) a first position in which said clamp is spaced apart from said curb to (b) a second position in which said clamp compressively engages said curb, each of said clamps extending in a generally horizontal direction when it extends from said first position to said second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.