Patent ID: 8528866
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. A skydiving harness, configured to cooperate with a back container, the harness comprising: first and second main straps, each main strap extending at one end into a shoulder strap, then into a back strap, the ends of both back straps being connected to a back transverse strap; first and second leg straps, an end of each of the first and second main straps being connected to a fastening point of the first and second leg straps, respectively; first and second side transverse straps, connected at one end to the back transverse strap, and extending into first and second side fastening straps, respectively, which are attachable to a lower part of the back container, each side transverse strap or each side fastening strap being configured to slide in a loop, which is integrally formed with the associated main strap with the associated leg strap, each side transverse strap or associated side fastening strap having a tensioning means coupled to a hooking means carried by one side transverse strap or the associated side fastening strap cooperating to hook on the hooking means of the other side transverse strap or associated side fastening strap or by a hooking means carried by the back container; saddle straps extending between the back transverse strap or the back straps and each one of the leg straps; and tightening and loosening means of the side transverse straps and of the associated side fastening straps, wherein the harness is switchable from a first position in which the harness is tightly maintained during freefall on a body of the skydiver using the skydiving harness without the skydiver resting on the saddle straps by hooking means of the side transverse straps or the associated side fastening straps and tightening of the tightening and loosening means, to a second position in which the skydiver rests on the saddle straps, the second position being achieved after the canopy deployment by totally unhooking the hooking means or the hooking means being kept hooked to the hooking means of the back container, gradually loosening the tightening and loosening means.