EP2663369B1 - Dispositif d'arret automatique de chute pour travailleur en hauteur - Google Patents

Dispositif d'arret automatique de chute pour travailleur en hauteur Download PDF

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EP2663369B1
EP2663369B1 EP12702598.9A EP12702598A EP2663369B1 EP 2663369 B1 EP2663369 B1 EP 2663369B1 EP 12702598 A EP12702598 A EP 12702598A EP 2663369 B1 EP2663369 B1 EP 2663369B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A62—LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62B—DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B1/00—Devices for lowering persons from buildings or the like
    • A62B1/06—Devices for lowering persons from buildings or the like by making use of rope-lowering devices
    • A62B1/14—Devices for lowering persons from buildings or the like by making use of rope-lowering devices with brakes sliding on the rope

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  • the present invention relates to an automatic fall arrest device for worker at height. It has applications in the field of personal safety.
  • the protection of workers at height is an obligation. Insulating devices for workers at height have therefore been proposed. Devices associated with a cable or equivalent, also called belaying support, which is vertical and on which the worker who is working at height is to be secured with a fall arrest device intended to arrest his eventual fall, are considered more particularly. To allow the worker to move up and down, the fall arrest device is in fact a device that can slide on a belay support and can therefore also be described as a slider. This type of device must meet certain standards in order to be used.
  • fall arrest devices on belay cable for example, those shown in the following documents are known: FR 1 519 616 , FR 2,617,050 , FR 2 751 233 , FR 2,815,874 and FR 2,815,876 .
  • Fall arrest devices are also known from the documents US-5,855,251 , US-4,034,828 and FR-2,548,913 .
  • the present invention provides an improved fall protection device that provides increased safety and that can meet the new requirements of the EN 353-1 standard, especially for falls back and / or side.
  • the invention relates to an automatic fall arrest device for worker at height as described in claim 1.
  • the device tends to release the belay support, the jaw not tightening the belay support, and makes free the device to slide along of the belay support by following the worker in his climb.
  • the device can therefore also be called a slider. Due to the upward shift of the attachment portion of the control arm mounting extension, the tightening effect on the belay support of the same vertical force component applied to said attachment portion will be increased compared to the case where the attachment would be in the axis of the control arm joints.
  • the terms connector and carabiner for the end of the lanyard intended to be hooked / fixed in the attachment portion of the attachment extension of the control arm are considered equivalent.
  • offset hooking part to denominate the attachment portion which is shifted upwardly relative to the axis of joints A1 of the control arm and its attachment extension.
  • the device is preferably configured so that at rest, that is to say in the absence of traction on the attachment portion of the control arm, the jaw is already applied against the belay support starting to tighten it, which corresponds to a pre-engagement of the device.
  • the return spring and the structure of the device in particular the relative positions of the points of articulation of the rods of the parallelogram on the one hand and the hooking part on the other hand are such that the pre-engagement allows both to maintain an ergonomic advantage when climbing.
  • the rise which causes traction to the top of the attachment part, is without a hitch or resistance.
  • the descent is without a hitch.
  • the clamping takes place only if a component of vertical force downward is applied to the attachment extension and gripping portion of the control arm.
  • the locking (effective clamping of the jaw on the belay support to block a fall) on the belay support can be obtained at rest and / or upon detection of the least effort component to the bottom applied to the attachment portion of the attachment extension forming part of the control arm. It follows from the structure of the device that any rearward pull applied on the worker's connecting means to the connector / carabiner fixed in the attachment portion will create a force with a vertical force component on the control arm of the that the attachment portion is shifted upwards relative to the axis of joints A1 of the control arm passing through its two joints in the parallelogram.
  • the proposed device responds more effectively than traditional devices in which the attachment portion is in the axis of the control arm or, worse, below.
  • the crushing force of the belay support is greater with the device of the invention.
  • a keying system preventing the installation of the device in the wrong direction along the belay support is implemented in the device.
  • the keying system comprises a sealing washer which is placed in the opening 17 of the bottom and prevent and / or interfere with the insertion of the belay support in said bottom opening when the flat device is mis-oriented.
  • an inclined rod disposed inside the device is fixed on one side of the carcass facing the opening of the bottom and is inclined towards this opening.
  • the substantially flat circular washer is slid by its central hole on the inclined rod during manufacture of the device and can slide on this inclined rod. Due to the inclination of the rod, the sealing washer will more or less engage the opening 17 of the bottom according to its position along the rod.
  • the shutter washer leaves free the opening 17 of the bottom when it is against the side of the carcass on which the inclined rod is fixed and it obstructs the opening of the bottom when it moves away from said side. Therefore, the inclined rod is placed on the side of the carcass, inside the device and facing the opening of the bottom so that by gravity, the device being flat, the washer comes to obstruct the opening 17 when the device is presented in the wrong way to take the belay support. In this way, the control arm 5 will always be down when the device has been installed on the belay support. The device is thus rendered irreversible in its mounting on a vertical belay support.
  • the washer has a diameter such that it can not escape through the opening of the gutter bottom of the device.
  • the inclined rod is fixed and / or held at its other end on the other side of the carcass.
  • the washer has a shape other than circular, including a square shape.
  • the rod and the hole of the washer can be circular or have a other shape, particularly complementary non-circular to prevent the rotation of the washer around the rod.
  • the deformable parallelogram corresponds to the articulated structure between the four corners 12, 13, 14, 15.
  • the two outer corners 12 and 13 correspond to the two joints between the vertical link 4, external, and the two control rods 5 and 6.
  • two other corners 14, 15, internal side of the parallelogram correspond to the two joints of the control rods to the carcass.
  • the internal extensions 7, 8 of the control rods 5, 6 are rounded so that when the control rods tilt around the internal corners / joints 14, 15, the belay support may be tight or loose at the bottom of the the gutter in the direction of tilting.
  • the attachment portion 11 and its through hole 10 of the connector / carabiner are offset upwards relative to the axis of joints A1 of the control arm passing through its two joints 13, 15. It is even noted that in the embodiment shown Figure 1 , the attachment portion 11 and its through hole 10 of the connector / carabiner are also offset upwards relative to the general axis A2 of the control arm and its attachment extension 9.
  • an anti-reversal function of the slider is available.
  • This function makes it impossible to place the device on the belay support in the wrong direction (top and bottom inverted) by closing the hole for positioning the connector in the hooking part when it is placed in the upside down on the belay support.
  • This function is achieved by gravity / gravity placement of a shutter in front of the hole where the connector / carabiner is to be placed. If the slider is placed on the belay support in the right direction, the shutter, which may be in the form of a tongue, does not close the passage hole of the connector in the fastening portion.
  • FIG. 2A An example of a shutter is shown in relation to the Figures 2A and 2B .
  • the device of the invention is mounted upside down on the belay support, control arm at the top, and the shutter obstructs the passage hole of the connector because it has rocked under the effect of gravity.
  • the shutter therefore plays a key role as regards the direction of installation of the device on the belay support.
  • the device is mounted in the right direction on the belay support and the shutter is retracted due to gravity, which releases the passage hole of the connector.
  • the release movement that the shutter does is represented by a semi-circular arrow.
  • the attachment extension and the attachment portion 11 shifted from the control arm are partially shown cut to allow to see the shutter which is preferably in the thickness of the control arm, the control arm resulting from the superposition of two plates.
  • the shutter is a moving part, free or, preferably, articulated to the control arm.
  • This spring 19 is presented in connection with the Figures 3 and 3A .
  • an upwardly-acting force F is applied to the offset hooking portion 11 via a connector (not shown) passed through the through-hole 10, which goes against the action said spring tending to tighten the jaws at the bottom of the gutter where normally the belay support.
  • the return spring 19 placed between the two parts of the carcass 3, engaged on one of the parts and forcing the upper control rod and its internal extension 7.
  • the spring is wound around the articulation 14 of the parallelogram.
  • control rod with its internal extension 7 is formed of two superimposed plates, which explains the presence of fastening rivets 21 of the two plates.
  • the control arm with its control rod 5, internal extension 8 and external 9 and offset hooking portion 11 is also formed of two superimposed plates riveted together.
  • a complementary means for enhancing the security of the device is also considered. It is intended to prevent the accidental dismantling of the belay device once the device is installed on the belay support and as long as the connector is engaged in the passage hole of the connector.
  • the geometry and the kinematics of the device are defined so that the connector placed in the passage hole acts as an obstacle which limits the travel of the attachment extension 9 by contact of the connector on the vertical link 4, ( figure 3 ).
  • the release of the cable through the alternating lateral openings is impossible because it is then not possible to rise sufficiently upward ( Figure 3 9).
  • the attachment extension 9 and its attachment portion 11 may, when they are raised upwards (with reference to the mounting of the Figure 3 ) engage behind the vertical link 4, which allows to sufficiently clear the internal extensions 7, 8, adapted shapes, control rods 5, 6 and release the alternate side openings through which the cable can then pass. Indeed, to release the alternating side openings, it is necessary to apply to the attachment extension 9 and its attachment portion 11 a sufficient movement, contrary to that required to lock the device on the belay support.
  • this means can be a lug of the connector / carabiner forcing the worker to install the connector / karabiner in an orientation and / or path that can not reproduce inverted naturally (without human operation).
  • this means can be a housing around the region of the shackle portion of the control arm, housing that is manually removable to allow the installation of the connector / carabiner.
  • FIGS 4A and 4B By way of another example of means intended to reinforce the safety of the device, it is shown Figures 4A and 4B , that preventing the device from being withdrawn from the belay support while the connector or carabiner is engaged in the passage hole of the connector or carabiner.
  • Two tilting plates 22, 23 hinged together and on the control arm by a cam track system can take two configurations together: a release configuration and a locking configuration. The user must act on these plates to pass blocking or release configurations and vice versa.
  • the two plates 22, 23 are in the release configuration and the parallelogram is free to deform except that as long as the connector or carabiner is in its hole, the possible deformation is limited and does not allow the release of the belay support of the device because one of the plates will come up against the connector or carabiner.
  • the parallelogram can be completely deformed until it releases the belay support or the access of the belay support to the device. It is therefore necessary that the connector or karabiner is not mounted in its hole in order to install or uninstall the device on the belay support.

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