Gaff shield
AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorsFrederick James Diggle, III, Paul Brent Rivers
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Abstract
An apparatus for protecting at least at least a portion of a leg and at least a portion of a foot. The apparatus has a shield with a vertical portion that is sized to receive and protect at least a portion of a leg. The shield also has a horizontal portion that is sized to receive and protect at least a portion of a foot. The shield is also removably positionable within at least a portion of a gaffed climbing apparatus.
Claims20
A shield for positioning between a wearer and a gaffed climbing apparatus to shield the wearer from the gaffed climbing apparatus, wherein the gaffed climbing apparatus includes a sleeve member received within a hook member and a hook member connected to a spike member, the shield comprising:
- a unitary L-shaped shield member having a vertical portion sized to engage and protect at least a portion of a leg and a horizontal portion sized to engage and protect at least a portion of a foot, said unitary L-shaped shield member is adapted to be connected to said hook member below the sleeve member;
- wherein said unitary L-shaped shield member is constructed to protect simultaneously at least a portion of a leg and at least a portion of a foot;
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- wherein said unitary L-shaped shield member is removably positionable within at least a portion of a gaffed climbing apparatus.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a sleeve member;
- a hook member received within the sleeve member;
- a spike member connected to said hook member;
- and
- a unitary L-shaped shield member having a vertical portion sized to engage and protect at least a portion of a leg and a horizontal portion sized to engage and protect at least a portion of a foot, said shield member connected to said hook member, wherein said unitary L-shaped shield member is constructed to protect simultaneously a portion of a leg and a portion of a foot.
A shield for positioning between a wearer and a gaffed climbing apparatus, wherein said gaffed climbing apparatus includes a sleeve member received within a hook member and said hook member connected to a spike member, said shield, comprising:
- a unitary L-shaped shielding member comprising a vertical shielding and horizontal shielding means;
- said vertical shielding means for protecting at least a portion of a leg;
- and
- said horizontal shielding means for protecting at least a portion of a foot, said vertical shielding means connected to said horizontal shielding means, said vertical shielding means sized to engage at least a portion of a leg and said horizontal shielding means sized to engage at least a portion of a foot, said unitary L-shaped shielding member is adapted to be connected to said hook member below the sleeve member;
- wherein said vertical shielding and horizontal shielding means are constructed to protect simultaneously a portion of a leg and a portion of a foot;
- and
- wherein said vertical and horizontal shielding means removably positionable within at least a portion of said gaffed climbing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.