EP3002044A1 - Système de protection antichute - Google Patents

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EP3002044A1
EP3002044A1 EP14187217.6A EP14187217A EP3002044A1 EP 3002044 A1 EP3002044 A1 EP 3002044A1 EP 14187217 A EP14187217 A EP 14187217A EP 3002044 A1 EP3002044 A1 EP 3002044A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A62—LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62B—DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B35/00—Safety belts or body harnesses; Similar equipment for limiting displacement of the human body, especially in case of sudden changes of motion
    • A62B35/0043—Lifelines, lanyards, and anchors therefore
    • A62B35/0068—Anchors
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A62—LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62B—DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B35/00—Safety belts or body harnesses; Similar equipment for limiting displacement of the human body, especially in case of sudden changes of motion
    • A62B35/04—Safety belts or body harnesses; Similar equipment for limiting displacement of the human body, especially in case of sudden changes of motion incorporating energy absorbing means

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  • the present invention relates to a fall protection system for securely coupling a user to a support structure, wherein the fall protection system comprises a vertical mast connectable with a support structure, a user connection assembly protruding from the mast at a top end thereof, and a tether connector arranged at the end of the user connection assembly, wherein the mast comprises a structure connection portion at which the mast is arranged to be removably connected to the support structure.
  • High-rise building construction may require workers to operate at dangerous heights. Often these workers may operate equipment on surfaces high above the ground elevation. These workers may perform duties at these heights without walls or rails surrounding these surfaces. Some of these surfaces may even have a slope which might facilitate falling off the surface.
  • a fall protection system of the kind described above is used.
  • One example of a prior art fall protection system is disclosed in EP 1400642 . It has shown that a drawback of the prior art system is that when a person does fall, and is arrested by the system, the forces exerted on the support structure at the locations where the mast of the system is fastened tend to cause damage on the support structure.
  • a fall protection system for securely coupling a user to a support structure, the fall protection system comprising a mast arranged to be vertically mounted in a state of use, having a top end and a base end; a user connection assembly; and a tether connector.
  • the mast comprises a structure connection portion, at which the mast is arranged to be removably connected to the support structure, and an energy absorbing deformation portion positioned closer to the top end than the structure connection portion.
  • the fall protection system is rearrangeable between an inactive state and a ready-to-use state.
  • the user connection assembly protrudes from the mast substantially radially of the mast, and has a proximal end, connected with the mast at the top end, and a distal end;
  • the tether connector is arranged at the user connection assembly, and the energy absorbing deformation portion is arranged to deform when exerted to a bending force caused by a falling user tethered to the tether connector, the energy absorbing deformation portion thereby absorbing energy and reducing the force exerted to the mast at its structure connection portion.
  • the energy absorbing deformation portion is arranged to deform plastically.
  • This embodiment is advantageous in that the properties of the energy absorption can be set by dimensioning the very material of the deformation portion as to length, width, thickness, etc.
  • the mast has a lower bending strength at the energy absorbing deformation portion than at a portion adjacent to and below the energy absorbing deformation portion. Thereby the mast is arranged to absorb energy by bending in the deformation portion.
  • the energy absorbing deformation portion comprises a first deformation segment of a lowest bending strength, and a second deformation segment of a second lowest bending strength, wherein the first deformation segment constitutes a top segment of the energy absorbing deformation portion, and the second deformation segment extends adjacent to the first deformation segment, and closer to the base end than the first deformation segment.
  • Two deformation segments provides for obtaining of the desired function in a relatively simple way with a useful amount of freedom in designing the energy absorbing deformation portion.
  • the user connection assembly comprises an upper elongated element having a proximal end pivotally connected with the mast at the top end thereof, and a distal end, and a lower elongated element having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end of the lower elongated element being pivotally connected with the upper elongated element at its distal end, and the proximal end of the lower elongated element, in the ready-to-use state, being removably connected with the mast closer to the base end than the proximal end of the upper element is, the interconnected distal ends of the upper and lower elongated elements forming the distal end of the user connection assembly.
  • the user connection assembly is easily unfoldable and foldable.
  • the first deformation segment extends between the connection points of the upper elongated element and the lower elongated element.
  • the fall protection system it is portable. Thereby it is possible for a single user to manage to arrange the fall protection system at a support structure.
  • the tether connector is attached at the distal end of the user connection assembly.
  • the fall protection system further comprises a user tethering device, which comprises a self-retracting lifeline unit, which is removably connected with the tether connector in the ready-to-use state.
  • a user tethering device which comprises a self-retracting lifeline unit, which is removably connected with the tether connector in the ready-to-use state.
  • the user connection assembly in the inactive state the user connection assembly is folded, the upper elongated element is received in a groove of the lower elongated element, and the user connection assembly extends along the length of the mast from the top end towards the base end.
  • the user connection assembly uses a small space.
  • the fall protection system 1 comprises a mast 2 and a user connection assembly 3.
  • the fall protection system 1 is shown in a state of use, where it has been rearranged from the inactive state to the ready-to-use state and vertically mounted at a support structure 4, which in the shown application is constituted by a cast-in-site concrete base joined with a concrete floor 5 of a building under construction.
  • a support structure 4 is well described in prior art and will not be described in more detail here. It should, however, be mentioned that the support structure 4 has an anchoring member centrally cast into the concrete base, and that the mast 2 has been received in the anchoring member.
  • the mast is removable from the support structure 4, and it is also rotatable in the support structure 4.
  • the mast 2 has a top end 6 and a base end 7.
  • the user connection assembly 3 protrudes substantially radially, i.e. horizontally, from the mast 2, and has a proximal end 8, which is connected with the mast 2 at its top end, and a distal end 9. This means that the mast 2 may or may not extend above the user connection assembly 3.
  • the fall protection system further comprises a tether connector 10, which is connected with the user connection assembly 3 at its distal end 9.
  • a user 11 is shown as tethered to the fall protection system 1 via a wire, or the like, 12 connected between the tether connector 10 and a body harness 13.
  • the user is shown after having fallen over the edge of the floor 5, wherein a part of the mast 2 has been bent.
  • the mast 2 has a structure connection portion 14 extending a distance from the base end 7 towards the top end 6, i.e. upwards in the figures. At least a base end part of the structure connection portion 14 is received in the concrete stand. Furthermore, the mast 2 has an energy absorbing deformation portion 15, positioned closer to the top end 6 than the structure connection portion 14. In this embodiment, the deformation portion 15 extends a distance from the top end 6 towards the base end 7. The deformation portion 15 is arranged to deform when exerted to a bending force caused by a falling user tethered to the tether connector 10, wherein at least a part of the energy of the fall is absorbed by a plastic deformation of the deformation portion 15. In other words the deformation portion 15 remains bent after the fall.
  • a non-deformation portion 18 which includes the structure connection portion 14 and which extends from the base end 7 to the deformation portion 15.
  • An end-most segment 19 of the non-deformation portion 18, including the base end 7 of the mast 2, and being an end-most segment of the structure connection portion 14 as well, has a smaller diameter than the rest of the non-deformation portion 18 in order to fit with current anchoring members.
  • some of the wider segment of the non-deformation portion 18 is also received in the anchoring member.
  • An approximate and exemplifying upper limit for the part of the mast 2 that is received in the anchoring member 46 of the concrete support 4 is shown by a peripheral broken line 20 in Fig. 4 .
  • the deformation portion 15 is constituted by two different segments having different bending strength.
  • the deformation portion 15 has a first, or upper, deformation segment 16 of a lowest bending strength, and a second, or lower, deformation segment 17 of a second lowest bending strength.
  • the first deformation segment 16 consequently constitutes a top segment of the deformation portion 15, and also of the whole mast 2, and the second deformation segment 17 extends adjacent to the first deformation segment 16, and closer to the base end 7 than the first deformation segment 16.
  • the difference in bending strength has been obtained by manufacturing the different parts 16, 17, 18 of the mast 2 with different dimensions as to diameter and thickness of material.
  • the diameter of the first deformation segment 16 had an outer diameter of 51 mm, and a material thickness of 3.2 mm
  • the second deformation segment 17 has an outer diameter of 60.3 mm, and a material thickness of 3.2 mm
  • the non-deformation portion 18, except for the end-most segment 19 has an outer diameter of 70 mm, and a material thickness of 3.2 mm.
  • this merely one example of many different possible combinations of number of deformation segments, and measures of deformation segments.
  • the deformation segments 16, 17 do not start deforming until the force exerted on them exceeds a deformation threshold.
  • the threshold is predetermined such that the mast 2 deforms only elastically when a person of average weight, e.g. 70 kg, hangs statically in the tether connector 10, i.e. the mast 2 may bend but will return to its original shape when the load is removed. However, if the same person falls from a surface the mast 2 will deform plastically, i.e. it will remain bent when the load is removed.
  • the length of the mast and the size of the user connection assembly will affect the weight too, and by making the fall protection system small enough it will be portable even with such large material dimensions as the prior art system, but then it would be too short for some application.
  • a portable fall protection system that can be used in all applications where the prior art system can be used has been obtained.
  • the length of the mast 2 is about 3.1 meters, and the user connection assembly 3 protrudes about 2 meters from the mast 2 in the ready-to-use state.
  • length of the first deformation segment is about half a meter and the length of the second deformation segment is about one meter. Of course many other dimensions are feasible as well.
  • the user connection assembly 3 comprises an upper elongated element 21 having a proximal end 22 pivotally connected, such as by means of a through bolt 27 ( Fig. 6d ), with the mast 2 at the top end 6 thereof, and having a distal end 23; and a lower elongated element 24 having a proximal end 25 and a distal end 26.
  • the distal end 26 of the lower elongated element 24 is pivotally connected with the distal end 23 of the upper elongated element 21, such as by means of a through bolt 28.
  • the proximal end 25 of the lower elongated element 24 is removably connected with the mast 2, such as by means of a fixing pin 29, closer to the base end 7 than the proximal end 22 of the upper elongated element 21.
  • the interconnected distal ends 23, 26 of the upper and lower elongated elements 21, 24 form the distal end 9 of the user connection assembly 3.
  • the upper elongated element 21 extends horizontally, while the lower elongated element 24 extends obliquely upwards from its proximal end 25 towards its distal end 26.
  • the lower elongated element 24 can be seen as a brace for the upper elongated element 21.
  • the first deformation segment 16 extends between the mast connections 31, 32 of the proximal ends 22, 25 of the upper and lower elongated elements 21, 24.
  • the user connection assembly 3 when the user connection assembly 3 is folded, as shown in Fig. 6a , i.e. when the fall protection system 1 is in the inactive state, the upper elongated element 21 is received in a groove 30 of the lower elongated element 24, and the user connection assembly 3 extends along the length of the mast 2 from the top end 6 towards the base end 7.
  • the groove 30 is provided by the lower elongated element 24 being a U-shaped in cross-section.
  • the fall protection system 1 is rearranged to the ready-to-use state as follows. Most comfortably, while having the fall protection system 1 lying on the ground, first the user releases the fixing pin 29 at the lower mast connection 32, and starts pulling the lower elongated element 24 away from the mast 2, Fig. 6a . The distal end 23 of the upper elongated element 21 starts pivoting out from the mast 2, Fig. 6b .
  • the lower elongated element is provided with a slot 33 at its distal end 26, such that a distal end portion 34 of the lower elongated element 24 is constituted by two parallel walls extending like tongues from the rest of the lower elongated element 24.
  • the user connection assembly 3 When the user connection assembly 3 has been unfolded, the user lifts up the fall protection system 1 and places it at the support structure to be used. Should it be needed to hoist the fall protection system 1 with a crane or the like, the lower elongated element 24 is provided with a lifting eye 35.
  • the fall protection system 40 comprises the same parts as the embodiment described above, but in addition it comprises a user tethering device 41, which comprises a self-retracting lifeline unit, and which is removably connected with the tether connector 10 in the unfolded state.
  • a user tethering device 41 which comprises a self-retracting lifeline unit, and which is removably connected with the tether connector 10 in the unfolded state.
  • Fig. 3 where it is mounted at another kind of support structure 42.
  • the support structure 42 is a transportable anchor, which in short comprises a frame structure 43 and heavy weights 44, such as concrete weights, placed in the frame structure 43.
  • the transportable anchor 42 further has an anchoring member 45, and the structure connection portion 14 of the mast 2 has been received therein.
  • a typical situation where the transportable anchor 42 is used is when the user 47 is going to work at the roof of a lorry 48, as illustrated in Fig. 3 .
  • the fall protection system 1 is to attach it, to a wall 49, by means of wall connectors, such as clamping members 50, as shown in Fig. 8 .
  • the fall protection system 1 is attached to the wall at a wall connection portion 51 comprised in the structure connection portion 14, typically at an upper part thereof.
  • the wall connectors 50 are arranged such that the mast 2 becomes rotatable when mounted at the wall 49.
  • the upper elongated element of the user connection assembly is a wire.
  • deformation segments may be provided, such as one deformation segment or three deformation segments.

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