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US 6,804,830 B2Granted
Full body harness for fall arrest
AssigneeMine Safety Appliances Company
InventorsRichard G. Reynolds, Joseph P. Feldstein
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Abstract
The present invention provides a full body harness which can include curved webbing, a spreading back pad and/or leg buckles which improve the comfort, use and performance of the harness. Preferably, the harness uses five pieces of webbing, namely, two curved webbing shoulder straps, two identical leg straps, and a subpelvic strap. The harness can also have a spreading back pad which helps to keep the shoulder straps from riding up onto the neck of the wearer.
Claims20
A body harness comprising:
- a pair of shoulder straps;
- a pair of leg straps and a back pad;
- wherein each shoulder strap passes through the back pad and is connected to one of the leg straps:
- and wherein at least one of the straps utilizes a niece of curved webbing that has been preformed into a curved shape before being worn.
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A body harness comprising:
- a pair of shoulder straps made from curved webbing that has been preformed into a curved share before being worn;
- a pair of leg straps;
- and a back pad;
- wherein each shoulder strap passes through the back pad, and is connected to one of the leg straps.
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A body harness comprising:
- a pair of shoulder straps;
- a pair of leg straps and a back pad;
- wherein each shoulder strap passes through the back pad and is connected to one of the leg straps;
- and wherein the back pad is generally X-shaped with the upper arms of the X being longer than the lower arms of the X, there being a plurality of openings in the back pad with at least one opening in each arm of the X, and the openings in the upper arms of the back pad are slightly offset upwardly and outwardly from the centerlines of the back pad relative to the openings in the bottom arms.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.