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107. ROCK PITON
QUALITATIVE REQUIREMENTS PICTURE OF EQUIPMENT
Rock piton is designed to be hammered in to a check in
the rock face and to be used as means of state delay
running belay or as an artificial aid.( AS per IS : 8905:
1987 (Reaffirmed 1996)
The piton consists of spike or blade and head having a hole
of having a loosely welded ring of such dimension as to
follow to passage of one or two carabineers ( see IS 8533-
1977) specification for general purpose carabineers for
mountain ring the loads that may be applied to various
type of pitons depends on their designee and the angle
between the body pitch and rope belay.
TERMINOLOGY :- for the purpose of is standard the
following definition shall apply.
Piton, Horizontal : pitch on which the direction of the load
on the eye is a right angles to the working adge of the
piton.
PITON VERTICAL :_ Piton on which the direction of
the load on the eye is parallel to the working adge of the
piton.