Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus – Personal flotation device
Patent
1998-09-30
2000-03-28
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Personal flotation device
B63C 908
Patent
active
060424400
ABSTRACT:
A water rescue device includes a flotation member, a shoulder strap, an extension strap which connects the floatation member and the shoulder strap, and a slack eliminator, which is connected to the extension material, and mechanically coils any slack extension strap between the flotation member and the shoulder strap, the slack eliminator having a torsion spring, a reel which takes up any slack extension strap under a force of the torsion spring, a plastic housing, and a selectively operable cam lever which allows the extension strap to extend a desired length against the force of the torsion spring.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5480332 (1996-01-01), Cynamon
Kananen Ronald P.
Sotelo Jesus D.
Water Safety Products
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