Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Personal flotation device
Patent
1990-07-30
1991-07-09
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Personal flotation device
441106, 441108, 441114, B63C 910
Patent
active
050301535
ABSTRACT:
A flotation vest particularly adapted for use with children is provided in a vest body including a front panel and a pair of back panels each joined to the front panel so as to define an open back vest with a top neck opening and side arm hole openings. A head support portion is hingeably joined to the vest body along the neck opening at a forwardly displaced position. The head support portion includes left and right lobe-shaped collar portions extending on opposed sides of the neck opening to the top of the front panel. Continuous elongate opposing free edge portions extend the entire length of the back of the vest from the free end of the collar panels to the bottom of the rear panels. A releasable fastener requiring adult assistance for operation joins the opposing parts of the back of the vest to secure the vest to the child. Flotation inserts of a buoyant flotation material are provided in the front panel and in each of the collar panels to force the wearer into a chest-up floating position with the head raised and cradled to maintain the wearer's face in a nose-up out of the water position.
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Bartz Clifford T.
ERO Industries
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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