A - Human Necessities – 62 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
62
B
A62B 35/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2114898
A fall-arrest strap for attachment to a safety belt or harness worn by a worker or a tether to a safety belt or harness worn by a worker having one endattached to a support structure and a method for attaching the strap to a woodenbeam. A handle is at the other end of the strap for attaching the strap to the safety belt or harness worn by the worker or the tether secured thereto. Flexible support webbing is attached to the handle. The flexible support webbing has an intermediary folded-over portion secured by stitches. The stitches have less tensile strength than the flexible support webbing whereby when the worker falls, the stitches break upon application of a force less than the breakage strength of the strap, thereby absorbing shock load. The strap possesses at one end thereof attachment means to aid in attaching the strap to the support structure. The fall prevention method to secure workers to a support structure comprises passing securement means, which in the preferred embodiment are nails through one end of a flexible fall arrest strap to thereby attach the end of the strap to a beam or truss, and wrapping the strap at least once around the beam, and securing the other end of the strap to the worker. In this manner, the force exerted by the fallen worker is applied perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the securement means into the flexible strap means.
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Vallance Richard
LandOfFree
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