Patent ID: 9290937
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: E04B,E04D,E04G

Claim Text:
1. In a process of installing a fall protection system at in a building roof structure, such building roof structure including at least first and second rafters, a space between the first and second rafters defining a first distance between the first and second rafters, each rafter having a length, and opposing first and second ends, the roof structure further comprising an eave, having a length, and extending between the first ends of the first and second rafters, a ridge, having a length, and extending between the second ends of the first and second rafters, and a second distance between the eave and the ridge, the eave and the ridge extending transverse to the first and second rafters, and a plurality of intermediate purlins, having lengths, and extending between the first and second rafters and spaced from each other between the eave and the ridge, a run extending from the first rafter to the second rafter between adjacent ones of the purlins, the fall protection system comprising a grid-work of support bands, and a suspension fabric overlying, and being supported by, the grid-work of support bands, a method of presenting the suspension fabric over the grid-work of support bands wherein the suspension fabric has been prepared as a rolled-up roll, the method comprising: (a) extending a shaft through the roll; (b) lifting the roll to an elevation of the purlins and placing the shaft in direct contact with next adjacent ones of the purlins, with the roll suspended on the shaft and over the run which is between the next adjacent ones of the purlins; and (c) drawing the fabric from the roll and along the run toward the second rafter and onto the grid-work of bands, such that the fabric is unwound from the roll and supported by the grid-work of bands.