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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1989
William M Porter, Wadesboro, NC (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus for climbing a tree or like vertical columnar member comprising an upper climbing member including a main frame having a tree engagement gripper support attached to the terminal ends of the main frame, lower gripper means attached to said gripper support and positioned to provide gripping pressure against a tree, a shaped rail attached to said main frame opposite the terminal ends thereof, and comprising an elevated safety-bar portion in the form of a convoluted loop with two open ends, a tree engagement portion in telescopic sliding adjustment engagement with the open ends of the shaped rail for selectively affixing the shaped rail to a tree, upper gripper means attached to the tree engagement portion and positioned to provide gripping pressure against the tree, a plurality of vertical rear bracing means positioned near the terminal ends of the main frame and joining the main frame to the shaped rail, a main frame platform covering the area between the center and the non-terminal ends portion of the main frame, a plurality of opposed vertical center bracing means joining said main frame and shaped rail, a pair of pivotable tubular holders mounted on opposed vertical center bracing means, a detachable seat telescopically inserted into the tubular holders and a foot climber member.