Compact climbing harness
OwnerJ. Steven Grooverinventor
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Abstract
A climbing harness for use with a belt worn around a user's waist for jointly supporting a load when climbing, and for compactly storing away when not in use. The climbing harness has a single-length strap configuration with a pair of strap ends and two slots located at a middle part of the harness. Each strap end is passed around one of the thighs of the user, and through one of the two slots, thereby creating two thigh loops. An interlaced portion, such as a knot, is formed at each slot for maintaining the size of the thigh loops, and each strap end is then preferably secured to the belt by a carabiner type clasp device.
Claims14
A climbing harness for use with a waist belt for jointly supporting a load when climbing, the waist belt having an anchoring component and the climbing harness having a single-length strap configuration capable of compact storage when not in use, said climbing harness comprising:
- a pair of strap ends, each having connector means for releasably connecting to the anchoring component;
- a strap mid-section located between the pair of strap ends;
- a pair of slot means each defining a slot, with the pair of slot means connected to the strap mid-section and separated by an intermediate strap length;
- a pair of tie sections each located between the strap mid-section and a corresponding strap end;
- a pair of thigh loops each formed by passing a strap end through the slot of a corresponding slot means;
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- a pair of knots each formed by releaseably interlacing a tie section to a corresponding slot means, for maintaining user-determined circumferences of the pair of thigh loops until released by the user.
A climbing harness system for supporting a load when climbing, said climbing harness system comprising:
- a waist belt having an anchoring component;
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- a single-length thigh strap for use with said waist belt and capable of compact storage when not in use, the thigh strap having:
- a pair of strap ends each having connector means for releasably connecting to the anchoring component,
- a strap mid-section between the pair of strap ends,
- a pair of slot means each defining a slot, with the pair of slot means connected to the strap mid-section and separated by an intermediate strap length;
- a pair of tie sections each located between the strap mid-section and a corresponding strap end,
- a pair of thigh loops each formed by passing a strap end through the slot of a corresponding slot means, and
- a pair of knots each formed by releaseably interlacing a tie section to a corresponding slot means for maintaining user-determined circumferences of the pair of thigh loops until released by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.