Safety roof anchors
OwnerJohn Vincent O'Donnellinventor
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Abstract
This invention relates to safety anchors for roof workers and in particular to a gutter ladder anchor, a ridge anchor, a rafter anchor, and a truss anchor. In a one aspect the invention is a gutter ladder anchor formed from a metal plate, and comprising a flat base, having left, right, rear, and front ends; a fold at the front end of the base; one or more legs extending from the fold; a flange at the end of each leg, folded upwards; one or more holes located in each leg for mounting a vertical eye or a ladder location attachment; a first pattern of spaced apart holes through the base for fixing the anchor to a batten or purlin, said first pattern extending from the left end to the right end; and one or more holes through the flange of each leg for fixing the anchor to a gutter.
Claims6
A gutter ladder anchor formed from a metal plate, comprising:
- a flat T-shaped base, having a cross part and a stem, and left, right, rear, and front ends, a first fold at the front end of the base, a first pattern of spaced apart holes in the T-shaped base for fixing the anchor to a batten or purlin, the hole pattern extending from one end of the base to another, two fins folded downward from the stem, transverse to the first fold, a hole in each fin for receiving a bolt threaded through a rafter located between the fins;
- one or more legs extending from the first fold with one or more holes located in each leg;
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- a flange at the end of each leg, folded upwards with one or more holes through the flange for fixing the anchor to a gutter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.