Patent ID: 6848120
Filing Date: 2005-02-01
Classification: A62B

Abstract:
1. A harness for breathing tanks and other objects consisting of a support plate to which a waist plate supported by the user's body is flexibly hinged, and fastening straps for maintaining the support plate and waist plate on a user's body, wherein the waist plate and the supporting plate are joined for elastic contortion and tilting using a formed piece made of an elastic material, wherein joining of the supporting plate and the waist plate with the formed piece is achieved by positive lock at least in a direction of rotation, wherein the waist plate is held in a torsionally elastic positive interlock with the formed piece by an off-center protrusion engaging in an off-center hole in the formed piece, wherein the supporting plate is held in a torsionally elastic positive interlock with the formed piece through engagement of a non-circular portion on the formed piece with a correspondingly shaped seat on the supporting plate.