Personnel restraint device

Claim 1

PERSONNEL RESTRAINT MEANS TO HOLD A PERSON RELATIVE TO A FIXED POINT ABOVE A SELECTED ACCELERATION LEVEL, COMPRISING: AN ANCHOR STRAP; A FIRST PULLEY SPACED FROM THE FIXED POINT; AN INERTIA LOCK, THE ANCHOR STRAP BEING FASTENED TO THE LOCK, PASSED OVER THE PULLEY TO FORM AN ANCHOR LOOP, PASSED THROUGH THE INERTIA LOCK, AND FASTEND TO THE FIXED POINT, THE INERTIA LOCK BEING ADAPTED TO SEIZE THAT PORTION OF THE ANCHOR STRAP PASSED THROUGH IT TO FIX THE SIZE OF THE ANCHOR LOOP; BIAS MEANS ATTACHED TO THE FIXED POINT AND TO THE INERTIA LOCK TENDING TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE ANCHOR LOOP; A HARNESS STRAP HAVING AT LEAST TWO ENDS ALL ATTACHED TO THE FIXED POINT, THE HARNESS STRAP HAVING A HARNESS LOOP WITH ONE LEG BRANCHING TO ENGAGE THE SHOULDERS OF A PERSON; A SECOND PULLEY FORMING THE HARNESS LOOP, THE AXLES OF SAID PULLEYS BEING ATTACHED TO EACH OTHER, WHEREBY THE LOOPS ARE JOINED THROUGH THE PULLEYS, A PULL OF LESS THAN A SELECTED ACCELERATION LEVEL ON THE SAID LEG SHORTENING SAID HARNESS LOOP AND PULLING ON SAID SECOND PULLEY TO SHORTEN THE ANCHOR LOOP AND EXTEND THE BIAS MEANS, A PULL OF GREATER ACCELERATION LEVEL LOCKING THE INERTIA LOCK AND PREVENTING CHANGE IN SIZE OF EITHER LOOP.