Inflatable flotation devices

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1995-08-29

1997-02-25

Sotelo, Jesus D.

Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices

Water rescue or life protecting apparatus

Personal flotation device

B63C 908

Patent

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056054823

ABSTRACT:
An inflation system for the inflation of an inflatable flotation device wherein a gas is chargeable into a gas inflatable chamber, from a gas vessel containing compressed gas, so as to form a floatable body. The inflation system initiates or triggers the inflation of such a device by taking advantage of a pressure responsive activation mechanism; the system may additionally or alternatively exploit an electrically breakable filament trigger to initiate inflation. The flotation device may be a personal flotation device in the form, for example, of a flotation vest or it may be a flotation device such as an inflatable dingy, buoy and the like.

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patent: 4968277 (1990-11-01), Parish et al.
patent: 5419725 (1995-05-01), Crowder et al.

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