Ships – Life craft handling device – apparatus – or implement
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-05
2008-10-21
Basinger, Sherman (Department: 3617)
Ships
Life craft handling device, apparatus, or implement
C114S375000, C114S378000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07438016
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to methods and devices for launching into the water, from a height H greater than a predetermined height hmax, a life-saving object designed to be able to be launched into the water in free fall from this maximum height hmax. One end of a halyard is fixedly hooked to the life-saving object or to the launch site; the halyard functionally cooperates respectively with the launch site or the life-saving object so that the life-saving object falling by gravity is braked on and/or by the halyard over at least one part (H-hmax) of its drop height. By controlling the braking effect, the life-saving object, falling from the height H in a braked manner over at least one part (H-hmax) of this height hits the surface of the water (5) with a kinetic energy not exceeding that which it would have at the end of a non-braked free fall from at most the height hmax.
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Dronne Cédric
Lavorata Marc
Michaud Pascal
Simon-Bouhet Guillaume
Basinger Sherman
Kilpatrick & Stockton LLP
Russell Dean W.
Zodiac International
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