US 12,448,843 B2
Fall protection system
Jonathon Christopher Adams, Hoschton, GA (US)
Assigned to Formetco, LLC, Duluth, GA (US)
Filed by Formetco, Inc., Duluth, GA (US)
Filed on May 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/739,615.
Application 17/739,615 is a division of application No. 16/208,868, filed on Dec. 4, 2018, granted, now 11,480,013.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/623,803, filed on Jan. 30, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/594,050, filed on Dec. 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0259923 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. E06C 7/18 (2006.01); A62B 35/00 (2006.01); A62B 35/04 (2006.01)
CPC E06C 7/186 (2013.01) [A62B 35/0037 (2013.01); A62B 35/04 (2013.01); A62B 35/0068 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fall protection system that is fixedly mountable to a vertical ladder having a pair of spaced vertical legs and a plurality of spaced transversely mounted rungs, comprising:
a top bracket assembly configured to be mountable to a rung on the top portion of the ladder, wherein the top bracket assembly comprises:
an elongated vertical member having a lower portion and an upper portion; and
a horizontal member having a proximal portion that is integrally coupled to the upper portion of the vertical member, wherein the horizontal member extends outwardly therefrom the upper portion of the vertical member and defines an interior cavity proximate a distal portion of the horizontal member, wherein a bottom surface of the horizontal member defines a slot that extends substantially vertically in the horizontal member and that is sized and shaped to accept a rung of the ladder, wherein the top bracket assembly has an inverted J-shape in cross-section;
a bottom bracket assembly configured to be mountable to a bottom portion of the ladder, wherein the bottom bracket assembly comprises:
a support member;
an eye bolt;
a horizontal spacing member coupled to a first edge of the support member, wherein the spacing member is positioned is a plane that is substantially parallel to a plane of a rung of the ladder, and wherein the spacing member defines an opening that is configured to operatively accept the eye bolt;
a trough member coupled to a proximal edge of the spacing member, the trough member being configured to be receive a rung of a second, displaceable ladder; and
a second cable connector operable coupled to the eye bolt, wherein the second cable connector comprises means for grasping an end portion of the cable when the cable is subjected to tension; and
a cable extending therebetween portions of the top bracket assembly and the bottom bracket assembly, wherein the cable is operably coupled to the respective top and bottom bracket assemblies under a desired tension load sufficient to space the cable from a plane of the ladder.