Package and article carriers – Carried by animate bearer – Convertible or combined
Patent
1981-10-05
1984-05-22
Pollard, Steven M.
Package and article carriers
Carried by animate bearer
Convertible or combined
224210, 224211, 150 52R, A45F 300
Patent
active
044496559
ABSTRACT:
The following specification discloses a combination backpack and gear bag for use by an underwater diver. The backpack is one wherein a container of gas such as a tank of pressurized gas is held on the back of a diver for purposes of providing a diver with breathing gas while diving. The backpack can be supported by straps across a user's body, or by means of a buoyancy compensator attached to the backpack for supporting the backpack and the tank therewith. The gear bag is such that it allows a backpack to be interconnected thereto. This is possible by means of insertion of the band or other connection means which holds the gas cylinder against the backpack through a passage in the gear bag followed by implacement of the gas cylinder within the gear bag and securing it with the connection means. The gear bag is oriented so that it can include within a portion thereof, carrying space for not only the cylinder, but other attendant apparatus, such as fins, snorkels, wetsuits, gloves, and other diving apparatus. When the backpack and the gear bag are not to be carried by the backpack, the entire gear bag can be carried by means of handles with the backpack or backpack-buoyancy compensator in a separate exterior compartment. The exterior compartment which receives the backpack or backpack-buoyancy compensator is created by a shroud or flap that overlies the backpack or backpack-buoyancy compensator. In this manner, the entire gear bag can be carried as one integral gear bag or carried as a combination backpack and gear bag with all of the diver's equipment therein.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2475135 (1949-07-01), Haven
patent: 2836334 (1958-05-01), Davis
patent: 3316951 (1967-05-01), Jacobson
patent: 3957183 (1976-05-01), Gadberry
Bethel George F.
Bethel Patience K.
Pollard Steven M.
U.S.D. Corp.
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