Safety

Current technology requires two pieces of webbing: a strength member (nylon or polyester web) that eventually stops the fall and supports the load, and an energy-absorbing member (POY) that stretches to absorb the energy of the fall. The two webbings must be assembled and sewn into a lanyard, requiring a tedious process.

Tape Craft created a new webbing that dramatically reduces the amount of assembly required by fall protection manufacturers. In fact, all that is required is to sew two metal hooks on the end, and you have a functioning shock-absorbing lanyard.

The main point of the invention is that the webbing has both the strength member (nylon or polyester tube) and the energy-absorbing member woven simultaneously as a one-piece webbing. The relative lengths of the two members are designed into the product as it is woven.

This is a patented product:

Tape Craft created a one-piece woven tear webbing that when assembled into a lanyard will act as both the energy-absorbing component and as the strength component. Energy absorbing is accomplished by fracturing of a set of yarns designed to “tear away” at a certain load. Unique to tear type products, however, the webbing is configured in such a way that after a predetermined tear length the webbing transitions into a strength member that will stop the fall and support the final load.

No back up strap is required with this product. In fact, all that is required is to sew two metal hooks on the end, and you have a functioning shock-absorbing lanyard. The deployment force and deployment distance are both set by the computer controlled weaving process.

The above specification is one example. Performance is tunable to customer requirements.