Automatic emergency rescue apparatus

Details Automatic emergency rescue apparatus Automatic emergency rescue apparatus

1986-06-06

1987-10-27

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices

Water rescue or life protecting apparatus

441 6, 441 30, 441 88, B63C 900

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047027150

ABSTRACT:
An automatic rescue apparatus for deploying a flotation device. The unit can be mounted vertically on the rail of a vessel or horizontally on the deck. The rescue apparatus has a life ring, a launcher housing containing a radio receiver and a trigger device and incorporating a life ring launching arm, a housing containing a collapsed inflatable marker buoy and a CO.sub.2 inflation assembly, and a portable battery-powered transmitter worn by an individual on a vessel. Ejection and resulting inflation of the marker buoy as well as simultaneous deployment of the life ring are actuated by a radio signal received from the transmitter worn by the overboard person.

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