Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Lifeline
Patent
1998-06-06
2000-02-01
Basinger, Sherman
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Lifeline
441 81, B63C 926
Patent
active
060196513
ABSTRACT:
A flotation device for rescue of individuals in distress in static or swift water or under icy conditions. A preferred embodiment includes a throwable disk having an annular groove wherein the disk is divisible into a pair of separate, positively buoyant subassemblies. A web-like harness is stowed in a recess within each subassembly and a line is fixed at one end to the harness. In the nondeployed condition, the line is wrapped, spool-like, about an annular groove in the disk, thereby holding the subassemblies together. In use, a rescuer holds the free end of the line in one hand and, with the other, throws the disk in the direction of the person to be rescued. During flight, the line unwinds from the disk. Desirably, the disk is thrown beyond the person in distress to be subsequently drawn by the rescuer toward that person. When the line has been unwound from the disk, the subassemblies separate and the harness is pulled out of the storage recesses in the subassemblies. At this point, the separated subassemblies float on the water surface, with the harness deployed between them.
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Driscoll Paul K.
Wahl Michael H.
Basinger Sherman
Life Safer, Inc.
Waters William Patrick
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