Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Personal flotation device
Patent
1992-01-27
1993-03-02
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Personal flotation device
441 88, B63C 912
Patent
active
051904896
ABSTRACT:
An inflatable swimming support adapted to be worn upon the upper arm of a user, the support comprising a major continuous and closed, torus-shaped air chamber formed of fluid-impervious, flexible material, the major air chamber forming a tubular central arm opening therethrough; a minor continuous and closed, torus-shaped air chamber formed of a strip of fluid-impervious, flexible material, the strip being heat sealed to the material of the major air chamber interiorly along two concentric circular lines and forming a central arm opening therethrough; a first valve means in fluid communication with the major air chamber for the selective inflation and deflation thereof; and a second valve means in fluid communication with the minor air chamber independent of the major air chamber for the selective inflation and deflation of the minor air chamber, the first and second valve means being located in spaced relationship along the length of the central arm opening.
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Bartz Clifford T.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Sunco Products, Inc.
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