Rescue or bathing raft

Details Rescue or bathing raft Rescue or bathing raft

1989-01-31

1990-10-09

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Ships

Floating platform

Float assembly

441 1, B63B 3558

Patent

active

049613944

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

The invention concerns a floating rescue or bathing raft consisting of several interconnected floating bodies.
Rescue and bathing rafts usually are in the form of floats consisting of several rectangular shaped floating bodies. They are anchored in bathing areas of rivers, lakes and other open waters and serve as support points for resting or in emergencies as rescue locations, which are located in front of the bank or shore and may be reached for example even if the safe return of the swimmer is rendered difficult or impossible by a current.
These known rescue or bathing rafts usually form fixedly assembled units which as a rule cannot be dismantled after their assembly. For this reason, the units are difficult to transport; land transportation of the unit without dismantling is in most cases not possible. If these rescue or bathing remain in the water they are at risk of being damaged. Therefore, protected locations must be provided on the bank to store the rafts outside the bathing season.
A floating platform is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,409,921, which forms in its horizontal projection an annular or circular disk and is composed of several segments. This working platform is intended for insertion in a standing, cylindrical vessel containing inserts in its center axis, so that only an annular space is available to receive a working platform. The individual segments of the working platform have an internal and an external barrel, which in the assembled state form a circle of floats. The floats carry an annular walkway mounted on them.
This working platform is used in a field far removed from the technical area of rescue or bathing rafts. The known floating working platform is not intended for use as a floating rescue or bathing raft and would not be suitable for such a purpose, as its individual parts have sharp edges and would injure swimmers.
It is the object of the invention to create a rescue and bathing raft of the aforementioned generic type, which is easily assembled or dismantled on land and even in the water and the individual floating bodies of which are readily transported and stored, so that their housing in winter storage and their transportation to different locations are possible without difficulty.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This object is attained according to the invention by that the rescue or bathing raft is a disk annular or circular in its horizontal projection, assembled from a plurality of identical floating bodies forming a segment each, that each floating body comprises a closed, foam filled plastic cup and that the floating bodies are releasably joined together at their lateral surfaces.
The floating bodies are readily transported and stored individually. They may be assembled in a simple manner into an annular or circular rescue or bathing raft, which therefore may be used even in locations that are difficult or impossible to access. Transportation and assembly may be effected without the use of mechanical means of transportation or special tool. For example, rescue swimmers of a rescue station may assemble such a rescue or bathing raft in a rapid and simple manner without additional help and anchor it in the location desired. The rescue or bathing raft may then be retrieved, dismantled and stored after use in an equally rapid and simple operation. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, each floating body is equipped at one of its lateral surfaces with at least two projecting coupling pins and on its other lateral surface with two matching coupling openings into which said pins may be inserted. A locking bolt serves to hold the coupling pins in the corresponding openings.


THE DRAWINGS

The invention will become more apparent from an example of embodiment described with reference to the drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a rescue or bathing raft in a simplified perspective view,
FIG. 2 a section on the line II--II in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 a top view of an individual floating body,
FIG. 4 a section on the line IV--IV in FIG. 3 an

REFERENCES:
patent: 3893201 (1975-07-01), Mallory
patent: 4409921 (1983-10-01), Carroll et al.

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