Auto brake hand descent control device
AssigneeFire Innovations LLC
InventorJuancarlos Colorado
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Abstract
A descent control device to facilitate rapid descent and abseil (rappelling) maneuvers, including a body, a handle integrally affixed to the body to define a longitudinal axis for the device, an attachment lug disposed on the body, and a combination of through holes through the body through which a safety line is threadably inserted in a specific pattern, and shallow channels between the through holes, thereby giving rise to configurations that allow the safety line to payout freely through the descent device, to be locked in relation to the descent device, or to payout in a controlled pace, all configurations depending on the orientation of the longitudinal axis of the device to the anchored upper portion of the safety line.
Claims14
A descent device, comprising:
- a body having an outer side and an inner side an upper side a lower side, a right side, and a left side;
- an elongate handle integrally affixed to and extending from an inner portion of said upper side of said body, said handle and said body having a common longitudinal axis;
- an attachment lug disposed on an outer portion of said body for attachment to a rope or lanyard;
- a payout hole disposed through said body from said inner side to said outer side and having a central axis on and normal to said common longitudinal axis;
- an anchor hole disposed above through said body from said inner side to said outer side and having a central axis on and normal to said common longitudinal axis and parallel to the central axis of said payout hole, and wherein a portion of said anchor hole and a portion of said payout hole are conjoined;
- right and left holes disposed from said inner side to said outer side, each having a central axis normal to said common longitudinal axis, and configured such that a line drawn between said central axes of said right and left holes is normal to said longitudinal axis;
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- a shallow channel on said outer side between said right and left holes, and a shallow channel between each of said right and left holes and said anchor hole on said inner side, such that a rope disposed between said right and left holes on said outer side is constrained to remain in said shallow channel and bends proud between said right and left holes;
- wherein said payout hole, said anchor hole, and said right and left holes are configured for selective payout and locking of a rope passed through said through holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.