Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Patent
1987-10-08
1988-09-27
Basinger, Sherman D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
114362, B63C 900
Patent
active
047738871
ABSTRACT:
A rescue device for small boats includes a rescue basket of open lattice work having a bottom wall with a high side wall inboard and a raised edge outboard. Rollers mounted to the side wall engage guide rails extending downward along the hull of the boat. A winch and cable system raise the basket from a submerged position in which the victim can be easily maneuvered into the basket utilizing the buoyancy of the water, and a raised position in which upward travel of the rollers is limited by detents in the guide rails. Continued operation of the winch causes the basket to pivot around the rollers bringing side wall into a horizontal position generally level with the top edge of the boat. The victim is rolled onto the side wall where aid may be administered during transport to the land or the victim can be easily brought completely into the boat. In this pivoted position, the bottom wall of the basket is substantially vertical so that the victim can not roll overboard. A latch mechanism locks the rollers in the detents and the bottom wall of the basket may be cinched against braces by the winch to form a stable platform for transport of the victim to land.
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patent: 3363269 (1968-01-01), Kossuth
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Basinger Sherman D.
Westerhoff Richard V.
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