Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Personal flotation device
Patent
1981-08-19
1983-04-12
Frankfort, Charles E.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Personal flotation device
441108, B63C 916
Patent
active
043797059
ABSTRACT:
A life belt comprising a ring shaped tubular body which incorporates a device for fastening the tubular body around a waist of a person, a compressed gas containing capsule connected to the tubular body and an actuator for releasing the compressed gas into the tubular body to inflate the tubular body, in which the tubular body has a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is obliquely bent downward at about 120.degree.-160.degree. relative to the first portion.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1253034 (1918-01-01), Heyward
patent: 1367225 (1921-02-01), Barker
patent: 2784426 (1957-03-01), Boyle et al.
patent: 3510025 (1970-05-01), Turner, Jr.
Corl Rodney
Frankfort Charles E.
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