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1. A protection pod, comprising:
four elongate legs each with respective upper and lower ends, the legs capable of resting substantially vertically on a floor, the protection pod being assembled with each leg positioned at a respective corner of the protection pod; a bracing frame including first and second frame members, the first and second frame members having respective first and second ends; a first lower brace extending from a first leg to a second leg of the legs, a second lower brace extending from the second leg to a third leg of the legs, and a third lower brace extending between the third leg and a fourth leg of the legs, the protection pod being without any lower brace extending between the fourth leg and the first leg so as to facilitate entry by a user into the protection pod in the lower brace free space between the fourth leg and the first leg; each leg having at the upmost end a socket capable of receiving laterally within itself a respective one of the ends of the bracing frame, the bracing frame and legs being positioned at right angles to one another when the ends of the bracing frames are positioned substantially within respective sockets, wherein the sockets and bracing frame ends each have respective first and second side walls with a fastener receiving opening extending through the first and second side walls of each socket and first and second side walls of each of the bracing frame ends, and with respective bolts inserted through the respective fastener receiving openings of each socket and bracing frame and positioned in the socket, the bolts being under tension so as to stress the side walls of the frame sockets inward; and each socket being sized larger than the received end of the bracing frame to provide a clearance vertically between the socket and received end that is a crush space into which the socket will crush downwardly under loading on the upmost end of the socket. |
