Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Personal flotation device
Patent
1987-08-27
1988-08-30
Basinger, Sherman D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Personal flotation device
441 93, 441102, 441106, 441116, B63C 916
Patent
active
047673710
ABSTRACT:
A garment to be worn conveniently and comfortably over the upper body of a seagoing person to gain protection from rain, wind, and/or cold, which includes an interior deflated fluid tight enclosure, i.e. a bladder, to be very quickly inflated inside the garment in a time of emergency. The deflated fluid tight enclosure covers at least the interior upper back portion of this garment and also covers at least the interior of the right and left chest portions of this garment. An inflating subassembly is operatively secured between the deflated fluid tight enclosure and to either the right or left chest portion of this garment. This inflating subassembly has an alternatively usable mouth and lung inflatable valved air intake-discharge communicating with the deflated fluid tight enclosure, and an alternatively usable filled compressed fluid valved cylinder discharge also communicating with the deflated fluid tight enclosure and having a coilable pullable lanyard. Then a pocket like subassembly is removably secured, by using loop and hook fasteners on the exterior of the garment at either the right or left chest portion and is non removably secured to the coilable pullable lanyard. This pocket like assembly fully covers and protects the inflating subassembly, until an emergency, when the seagoing person intentionally, readily, and quickly, pulls the pocket like assembly away from the garment, causing the pulling of the lanyard to activate the valve on the compressed fluid valved cylinder. The fluid tight enclosure is then quickly inflated, creating the buoyancy needed by this seagoing person.
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Basinger Sherman D.
Brahan Thomas J.
Mattern Jr. Roy E.
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