Sailboarding personal flotation device

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1982-12-14

1985-10-08

Blix, Trygve M.

Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices

Water rescue or life protecting apparatus

Personal flotation device

114 39, 182 3, B63C 908

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045457735

ABSTRACT:
A personal flotation device (10) for use with a sailboard is disclosed. The device (10) comprises a buoyant body portion (12) having front and back sections (14 and 16, respectively) defining arm holes (26a and 26b) and a neck hole (28). The device further comprises hook (80) for releasably attaching the device to a line of a sailboard, straps 32, 48, 54, 62, and 68 for securing the body portion (12) to and quickly releasing it from the wearer, and flaps 38 and 40 and straps 32 and 54 for substantially distributing the stress, which arises from the pull of the sail and line, across the back of the wearer. The device (10) can further include tape 88 for self-adjusting the location of hook 80 to optimize the balance and comfort of the sailboard operator.

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patent: 2393285 (1946-01-01), Brown
patent: 2427828 (1980-02-01), Saby
patent: 3448826 (1969-06-01), Rosenblum
Sporting Goods Business, p. 70, Dec. 1982.
Offshore Products, Inc., p. 3.
Photographs of Mustang Sportswear, Inc. and the Stan Louden Products Ltd. Flotation Devices.

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