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Apparatus for use, in conjunction with a fall arrester or load winch means, when servicing a closed vessel having a top or side manway. The apparatus being adaptable for either exterior or interior mounting having universal, flexible supporting means. The apparatus further comprising a universal bra

Apparatus for use, in conjunction with a fall arrester or load winch means, when servicing a closed vessel having a top or side manway. The apparatus being adaptable for either exterior or interior mounting having universal, flexible supporting means. The apparatus further comprising a universal bracket means for operably receiving a fall arrester or load winch, mountable in a vertical position to the manway\s cover flange.

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A portable suspension apparatus for moving a load, such as personnel or materials, through an opening in an enclosed vessel and raising or lowering of said load inside said vessel comprising: a) an enclosed vessel having a side wall defining the inside and outside of said vessel equipped with an ann

A portable suspension apparatus for moving a load, such as personnel or materials, through an opening in an enclosed vessel and raising or lowering of said load inside said vessel comprising: a) an enclosed vessel having a side wall defining the inside and outside of said vessel equipped with an annulus flange forming a manway; b) a suspension apparatus, passable through said opening and erected within said vessel, further comprising; a central frame member having means for attaching legs, pulleys and flexible members; at least two telescopic legs pivotally attached at one end to said central frame member and a telescopic spreader member adjacent the opposite end holding said legs in a spaced apart relationship while said legs are braced against said vessel\s inside wall below said manway; an adaptor bar, attached to said central frame member; a jacking means for extension and retraction, attached at one end to said adaptor bar the opposite end braced against said inside wall, above said manway; a first set of at least two flexible members attached at one end to said central frame member their opposite end attached to said annulus flange; and a second set of at least two flexible members attached at one end to said spreader member their opposite end attached to said annulus flange; c) a mounting bracket for operable receiving a fall arresting and retrieving cable hoist means adapted to said manway annulus flange; d) a cable guide means for guiding said fall arresting and retrieving cable, including a pulley block attached to said central frame member, attached to said mounting bracket and extending through said manway; and e) an attachment means securing ends of said first and second flexible members to said annulus flange.