Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Patent
1996-08-12
1998-07-14
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
441 83, B63C 900
Patent
active
057795118
ABSTRACT:
A man overboard rescue device comprises a sheet-like lifting harness having an effective shape as defined by a top, a first foot and a second foot with each of the top. Each of the first foot and the second foot including means for securing each foot to a stationary part of a vessel. The top of the lifting harness including means for connecting the lifting harness to a halyard for moving the lifting harness top relative to the first foot and the second foot. The lifting harness in an area associated with the top thereof being formed at least in part from a mesh-like material which is capable of passing substantially freely through water.
REFERENCES:
Yachting Monthly, Mar. 1996, pp. 50-53.
Tri Buckle Brouchure, 4 pages, Date--applicant believes that the brochure was made available in England sometime in Oct. 1995.
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