Full body restraint system

Claim 1

A RESTRAINT SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING AN ASTRONAUT, WHILE SUBJECT TO HIGH RATES OF ACCELERATION, IN A GIVEN ATTITUDE, AND FOR ALLOWING HIM FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT DURING PERIODS OF MINOR OR NO ACCELERATION, SAID RESTRAINT SYSTEM COMPRISING A SUIT OF SEVERAL BODY COMPONENTS, WHICH INCLUDES AT LEAST AN UPPER LEG ENCASING PANTS SECTION, FRONT AND REAR VEST PORTIONS TO FIT THE FRONT AND REAR, RESPECTIVELY, OF THE ASTRONAUT''S TORSO, ABOVE SAID PANTS SECTION, AND OF A LENGTH TO EXTEND GENERALLY BETWEEN HIS LUMBAR REGION AND HIS SHOULDERS, LOWER LEG ELEMENTS TO ENCIRCLE AT LEAST HIS ANKLES, AND A HELMET, CABLE MEANS AT EACH SIDE EXTENDING CONTINUOUSLY LENGTHWISE OF EACH SUCH SUIT COMPONENT, CABLE GUIDE MEANS INCORPORATED WITH AND EXTENDING LENGTHWISE ALONG THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF EACH SUCH SUIT COMPONENT AND RECEIVING THE CABLE MEANS FOR LENGTHWISE MOVEMENT THROUGH SAID GUIDE MEANS, A PLURALITY OF SUPPORT MEANS SEPARATE FROM THE SUIT AND THE CABLE MEANS, SUPPORTED IN THE VICINITY OF THE LOCATIONS TO BE ASSUMED, WHEN THE ASTRONAUT IS IN THE GIVEN ATTITUDE, BY HIS FEET, HIS KNEES, HIS HIPS, AND ABOVE HIS HEAD, RELEASABLE MEANS FOR INTERENGAGING EACH CABLE MEANS WITH THE CORRESPONDING SUPPORT MEANS AT EACH SUCH