Patent ID: 8316993

Claim:
A device for securing a ladder to a building, the device including: a building clamp assembly; and a ladder hook assembly; wherein the building clamp assembly comprises a body including a fixed jaw and a hand grip, a slide bar having a moveable jaw at a removed end thereof, means including a pivoting trigger handle for moving the movable jaw and fixed jaw together, and releasable braking means for releasably preventing the fixed jaw and movable jaws from separating; wherein the ladder hook assembly is engaged with the building clamp assembly and includes a body, a slide member having a removed end, which slide member slideably engages the body, and a locking member, which releasably fixes the distance of the removed end of the slide member with respect to the body; and wherein the body of the ladder hook assembly includes a pair of slots dimensioned for and adapted to slideably receive the slide member therethrough.