Patent ID: 6382355
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A climbing appliance for roping a person up and down using a double rope technique, the climbing appliance comprising: a housing; a clamping jaw mounted pivotally in the housing; a main rope conveyed over an upper reversing point with one end of the rope fastened to the housing, the rope having another end passing through a recess between the housing and the clamping jaw and the rope being movable inside the recess into a clamping position and into a release position; a fastening point for a connection rope, said fastening point being provided between the climbing appliance and the person roping up off center in an outside edge region of the housing, the pivot axis of the clamping jaw being disposed substantially centrosymmetrically; and a release rope fastened to an outside edge region of the housing, the outside edge region of the housing being opposite to the fastening point for the connection rope.