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(11) EP 0 272 908 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
22.03.1989 Bulletin 1989/12

(43) Date of publication A2:
29.06.1988 Bulletin 1988/26

(21) Application number: 87311268.4

(22) Date of filing: 22.12.1987
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4: A62B 35/04
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB SE

(30) Priority: 23.12.1986 GB 8630789

(71) Applicant: BARROW HEPBURN EQUIPMENT LTD
London SW8 4UZ (GB)

(72) Inventor:
  • Sharp, George Patrick
    Clwyd North Wales (GB)

(74) Representative: Main, Peter Stephen (GB) et al
Hyde, Heide & O'Donnell 10-12 Priests Bridge
GB-London SW15 5JE
GB-London SW15 5JE (GB)


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    (54) Fall-arrest safety device


    (57) A fall-arrest safety apparatus comprising a cable (5) wound onto a drum (2) has a fixed cable guide (25) and a stop (26) which is secured to the cable (5) near its tail end. The guide prevents passage of the stop under pulling forces exerted on the cable in normal use and thereby ensures that a reserve length of cable remains on the drum. The stop is forced through the guide under the larger pulling force exerted if the worker attached to the cable falls when the stop is against or adjacent the guide.







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