US2784426A - Life-saving flotation device - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to inflatable life-saving flotation devices such as garments and belts.
- an improved flotation device dependably adapted to keep the face of the wearer well out of the water and well protected against splash of the waves, which is of especial importance to pre vent drowning in case the wearer becomes unconscious; to provide an improved device having adjustment for providing a high center of buoyancy, in relation to the center of gravity of the wearer, for stability of position of the wearer in the water when that consideration is of major importance, as in the case of unconsciousness, rough water, or desire to avoid detection;,and, alternatively, a low center of buoyancy, for holding the wearer high in the water when the wearer desires to have his head and shoulders well above the water and free for movement, as for observation and signalling purposes, or for comfort; to provide variable distribution of the support of the wearers weight between different bodycontacting parts of the device, or shifting of the major part of it from arm-pit support to seat support, for example; to provide a device having both the flat-boat type and the ballast type of stability; to provide for substantial constancy of position of application of the ballast force to
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view, from the front, of a life jacket embodying our invention in its preferred form, the buoyancy portions of it being collapsed and enclosed in a belt-like, quick-opening, flexible envelope.
- Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on line 33 of Fig. 1.
- Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section, with parts in elevation, illustrating one of the inflating devices and its fluid connection to the inflatable buoyancy member of the jacket.
- Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing how the jacket is worn, as a loose-fitting belt, in readiness to be called into service.
- Fig. 6 is a similar View, but with the belt like assembly raised to the arm-pits, by taking up of shoulder straps, for initial arm-pit support of the wearer in the water, upon inflation of the jacket in that arm-pit position.
- Fig. 7 is a side elevation showing the jacket upon the wearer just after its inflation.
- Fig. 8 is a front elevation of what is shown in side elevation in Fig. 7.
- Fig. 9 is a corresponding rear elevation.
- Fig. 10 shows the jacket upon the wearer after he has 2,784,426 Patented Mar. 12, 1957 shifted it from arm-pit support, for freedom of the upper parts of his body, as for turning his head for observation or waving his arms to attract attention of a possible rescuer.
- Fig. 11 is fragmentary section, on a relatively large scale, for clarifying details that are less clearly shown in Fig. 9.
- the jacket comprises a C-shaped element 10, preferably a water-proof fabric, which serves as a protective and retaining enclosure or wrapperfor the inflatable member 11 when the latter is folded and stored.
- the wrapper 10 is secured to the member 11 throughout their length, as by an anchorage strip 11 Figs. 2 and 3, and is provided with snapfasteners 12, 12 having their male and female elements spaced along the respective long, horizontal, margins of the wrapper, these snap-fasteners being adapted to be disconnected automatically by the inflation of the buoyancy member 11, either by the usual compressed-gas cylinder devices 13, 13 or by the usual mouth-inflation valve-stem 14.
- the inflatable member or cell 11 of the device preferably of waterproof fabric, is so shaped that upon being drawn up to the arm-pit position, as in Fig. 6, and inflated, as in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, it has a large front portion fitting under and supporting the chin of the wearer and side portions or wings extending downwardly and rearwardly from the front portion, past the arm-pits, and then upwardly and rearwardly back of the shoulders of the wearer, preferably with these several parts of the cell gripping the corresponding parts of the wearers body with appreciable force, so that, even if the wearer becomes unconscious, his position in relation to the flotation cell will remain substantially constant.
- an adjustable, Suspender-like strap 15 extends freely through anchorage loops 16, 16, Figs. 1 and 9, secured to the inner sides of the side wings of the cell, near their rear ends.
- anchorage loops 16 Above the anchorage loops 16 the two reaches of the strap 15 are crossed and, extending forward over the shoulders of the wearer, they are adjustably engaged in respective buckles 17, 17 mounted upon respective tabs 18, 18 secured to the front lobe of the cell near its top, as by adhesion to the cell of semi-circular base portions 18 18 of the loop-type tab.
- a pair of seat straps 19, 20, preferably of unequal length, as shown clearly in Figs. 7, 8 and 10, are secured to the wrapper member 10, as by sewing, at 19 20 respectively, Figs. 1, 5 and 9, and thus they are secured indirectl, to the low parts of the respective side wings of the cell, preferably at positions about midway, foreand-aft, of the cell, or a little farther forward, as shown, so that when the weight of the wearer is applied to the seat straps it will, in conjunction with the flat-boat fore-and-aft stabilizing of the cell, ballast the cell to a position such that the front and rear lobes of the cell, lightly gripping the upper torso of the wearer, will hold the wearer in an almost vertical sitting position, but permissibly with a little backward inclination, as illustrated in Fig. 10.
- the seat straps 19, 29 are provided at their outer ends with the respective elements 21, 22 of a T-and-slot quickdetachable fastening device, shown clearly in Figs. 7 and 8.
- the device In the use of the device it is worn, pending an emergency, as a loose-fitting, Suspender-supported belt, as in Fig. 5. When it is to be put in service, it preferably is raised to the arm-pit position, as shown in Fig, 6,
- said seat structure comprising a loop element secured at its ends to opposite sides of, and depending from, said buoyancy structure, said loop element being flexible substantially throughout its length and disposed directly from right to left, for engagement of said flexible loop element transversely under the body of the wearer as a transversely disposed seat.
- adjusting strap-anchoring means are secured to the chin-supporting portion of the buoyancy structure in spaced relation to each other and the shoulder-strap means comprises a single strap of which the middle part is the defined strap element extending through the defined anchorage loops, the end reaches of said strap being adjustably connectable to the said adjusting strap-anchoring means respectively.
- a lifesaving flotation device comprising a flexiblewalled inflatable structure having a front, bulbous, chinsupporting portion, and, extending downwardly and rearwardly therefrom, arm-pit-engaging side portions spaced apart and thus defining between them a space adapted for receiving the body of the wearer, said side portions having, in continuation thereof, rearwardly and upwardly extending bulbous rear portions, and adjustable shoulderstrap means for holding said device to the arm-pits and chin of the wearer, said structure having, at both the front and rear of the wearer, substantially greater inflation capacity above than below the arm-pit engaging parts of said structure, and said front portion having a greater inflation capacity than said rear portions, whereby the center of buoyancy of said structure is above and slightly forward of the central parts of the arm-pits of the wearer, assuming the wearer to be in a standing position.
- a life-saving flotation device comprising a flexible buoyancy structure adapted to extend about the body of the wearer, in pressure contact therewith, at one alternative position substantially at arm-pit height and at another alternative position substantially closer to waistline height, and, having connection to said buoyancy structure, flexible tension means engageable over the shoulders of the wearer as suspender means, means for changing the effective length of 'said tension means, and flexible tension means constituting a unitary loop secured at its ends to the buoyancy structure at the right and left sides thereof, respectively, the unitary loop thus being engageable directly from right to left under the body of the wearer as a transversely disposed seat, and the two said tension means being thus adapted to maintain the said buoyancy structure, alternatively, at each of the two said positions in relation to the wearers body.
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March 12, 1957 Filed July 7, 1953 4 Sheets-Sheet l l3 w INVENTORS JAMES F. BOYLE BY MYRON L'. TAYLOR ATTORNEY 1 MariIh 2, 1957 J. F. BOYLE ETAL LIFE-SAVING FLOTATION DEVICE Filed July 7, 1953 4 sheets-Sheet 2 'INVENTORS JAMES F. BOYLE BY MYRON L.TAYLOR ATTORNEY-- -J. F. B'OYLE EI'AL 2,784,426
LIFE-SAVING FLOTATION DEVICE,
March 12, 1957 4 Shee'ts-Sheet 3 Filed July 7, 1953 FIG. 7
INVENTORS I JAMES F. BOYLE BY MYRON L.TAYLOR 4oM/9. ATTORNEY March 12, 1957 BOYLE 2,784,426
LIFE-SAVING FLOTATION DEVICE Filed July 7, 1953 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTOR JAMES F. BOYLE BY MYRON .L. TAYLOR ATTORNEY 2,7 84,426 LIFE-SAVING FLGTATION DEVICE James F. Boyle, Teaneck, and Myron L; Taylor, Sea Girt,
. J., assignors, by mesne assignments, to The Garrett Corporation, Los Angeles, Calif., a corporation of California Application July 7, 1953, Serial No. 366,571 8 Claims. (Cl. 9-17) This invention relates to inflatable life-saving flotation devices such as garments and belts.
Its chief objects are to provide an improved flotation device dependably adapted to keep the face of the wearer well out of the water and well protected against splash of the waves, which is of especial importance to pre vent drowning in case the wearer becomes unconscious; to provide an improved device having adjustment for providing a high center of buoyancy, in relation to the center of gravity of the wearer, for stability of position of the wearer in the water when that consideration is of major importance, as in the case of unconsciousness, rough water, or desire to avoid detection;,and, alternatively, a low center of buoyancy, for holding the wearer high in the water when the wearer desires to have his head and shoulders well above the water and free for movement, as for observation and signalling purposes, or for comfort; to provide variable distribution of the support of the wearers weight between different bodycontacting parts of the device, or shifting of the major part of it from arm-pit support to seat support, for example; to provide a device having both the flat-boat type and the ballast type of stability; to provide for substantial constancy of position of application of the ballast force to the buoyancy part of the device in spite of shifting of the wearers body in relation to the device, as for changing his angle of inclination in the water; to provide comfort for the wearer, especially in the case of a long stay in the Water; to provide a device that can be comfortably and unobstructively worn as a loose-fitting belt when it is not called upon for service but which nevertheless can be instantly put in the desired position and condition for service; to provide simplicity of construc tion and of manipulation; and to provide strength, lightness and durability.
Of the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a perspective view, from the front, of a life jacket embodying our invention in its preferred form, the buoyancy portions of it being collapsed and enclosed in a belt-like, quick-opening, flexible envelope.
Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on line 33 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section, with parts in elevation, illustrating one of the inflating devices and its fluid connection to the inflatable buoyancy member of the jacket.
Fig. 5 is a front elevation showing how the jacket is worn, as a loose-fitting belt, in readiness to be called into service.
Fig. 6 is a similar View, but with the belt like assembly raised to the arm-pits, by taking up of shoulder straps, for initial arm-pit support of the wearer in the water, upon inflation of the jacket in that arm-pit position.
Fig. 7 is a side elevation showing the jacket upon the wearer just after its inflation.
Fig. 8 is a front elevation of what is shown in side elevation in Fig. 7.
Fig. 9 is a corresponding rear elevation. Fig. 10 shows the jacket upon the wearer after he has 2,784,426 Patented Mar. 12, 1957 shifted it from arm-pit support, for freedom of the upper parts of his body, as for turning his head for observation or waving his arms to attract attention of a possible rescuer.
Fig. 11 is fragmentary section, on a relatively large scale, for clarifying details that are less clearly shown in Fig. 9.
Referring to the drawings, the jacket comprises a C-shaped element 10, preferably a water-proof fabric, which serves as a protective and retaining enclosure or wrapperfor the inflatable member 11 when the latter is folded and stored. The wrapper 10 is secured to the member 11 throughout their length, as by an anchorage strip 11 Figs. 2 and 3, and is provided with snapfasteners 12, 12 having their male and female elements spaced along the respective long, horizontal, margins of the wrapper, these snap-fasteners being adapted to be disconnected automatically by the inflation of the buoyancy member 11, either by the usual compressed- gas cylinder devices 13, 13 or by the usual mouth-inflation valve-stem 14.
The inflatable member or cell 11 of the device, preferably of waterproof fabric, is so shaped that upon being drawn up to the arm-pit position, as in Fig. 6, and inflated, as in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, it has a large front portion fitting under and supporting the chin of the wearer and side portions or wings extending downwardly and rearwardly from the front portion, past the arm-pits, and then upwardly and rearwardly back of the shoulders of the wearer, preferably with these several parts of the cell gripping the corresponding parts of the wearers body with appreciable force, so that, even if the wearer becomes unconscious, his position in relation to the flotation cell will remain substantially constant.
To contribute to this appreciable gripping, stability effect when the device is at the arm-pit position as in Fig. 6 and inflated as in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, and alternatively to support the device at waist position, as in Figs. 5 and 10, an adjustable, Suspender-like strap 15 extends freely through anchorage loops 16, 16, Figs. 1 and 9, secured to the inner sides of the side wings of the cell, near their rear ends. Above the anchorage loops 16 the two reaches of the strap 15 are crossed and, extending forward over the shoulders of the wearer, they are adjustably engaged in respective buckles 17, 17 mounted upon respective tabs 18, 18 secured to the front lobe of the cell near its top, as by adhesion to the cell of semi-circular base portions 18 18 of the loop-type tab.
To provide on occasion a seat for the wearer, a pair of seat straps 19, 20, preferably of unequal length, as shown clearly in Figs. 7, 8 and 10, are secured to the wrapper member 10, as by sewing, at 19 20 respectively, Figs. 1, 5 and 9, and thus they are secured indirectl, to the low parts of the respective side wings of the cell, preferably at positions about midway, foreand-aft, of the cell, or a little farther forward, as shown, so that when the weight of the wearer is applied to the seat straps it will, in conjunction with the flat-boat fore-and-aft stabilizing of the cell, ballast the cell to a position such that the front and rear lobes of the cell, lightly gripping the upper torso of the wearer, will hold the wearer in an almost vertical sitting position, but permissibly with a little backward inclination, as illustrated in Fig. 10.
The seat straps 19, 29 are provided at their outer ends with the respective elements 21, 22 of a T-and-slot quickdetachable fastening device, shown clearly in Figs. 7 and 8.
In the use of the device it is worn, pending an emergency, as a loose-fitting, Suspender-supported belt, as in Fig. 5. When it is to be put in service, it preferably is raised to the arm-pit position, as shown in Fig, 6,
ture, for supporting therefrom weight of the wearers body, said seat structure comprising a loop element secured at its ends to opposite sides of, and depending from, said buoyancy structure, said loop element being flexible substantially throughout its length and disposed directly from right to left, for engagement of said flexible loop element transversely under the body of the wearer as a transversely disposed seat.
4. A device as defined in claim 2 in which adjusting strap-anchoring means are secured to the chin-supporting portion of the buoyancy structure in spaced relation to each other and the shoulder-strap means comprises a single strap of which the middle part is the defined strap element extending through the defined anchorage loops, the end reaches of said strap being adjustably connectable to the said adjusting strap-anchoring means respectively.
5. A device as defined in claim 6 and including a flexible wrapper secured to and extending along the bodyengaging side of the deflned'inflata'ble structure for retaining the latter in deflated and folded condition, and means disengageable by inflation of the defined structure for securing upper and lower margins of said wrapper to each other.
6. A lifesaving flotation device comprising a flexiblewalled inflatable structure having a front, bulbous, chinsupporting portion, and, extending downwardly and rearwardly therefrom, arm-pit-engaging side portions spaced apart and thus defining between them a space adapted for receiving the body of the wearer, said side portions having, in continuation thereof, rearwardly and upwardly extending bulbous rear portions, and adjustable shoulderstrap means for holding said device to the arm-pits and chin of the wearer, said structure having, at both the front and rear of the wearer, substantially greater inflation capacity above than below the arm-pit engaging parts of said structure, and said front portion having a greater inflation capacity than said rear portions, whereby the center of buoyancy of said structure is above and slightly forward of the central parts of the arm-pits of the wearer, assuming the wearer to be in a standing position.
7. A device as defined in claim 6 and including a flexible wrapper secured to and extending along the bodyengaging side of the defined inflatable structure for retaining the latter in deflated and folded condition, means connecting the defined shoulder strap means to the defined inflatable structure, for connection of said shoulderstrap means to said wrapper only through said inflatable structure when the latter is in inflated condition, and quick-detachable means for more directly connecting said shoulder-strap means to said wrapper when the inflatable structure is confined, in deflated and folded condition, by said wrapper.
8. A life-saving flotation device comprising a flexible buoyancy structure adapted to extend about the body of the wearer, in pressure contact therewith, at one alternative position substantially at arm-pit height and at another alternative position substantially closer to waistline height, and, having connection to said buoyancy structure, flexible tension means engageable over the shoulders of the wearer as suspender means, means for changing the effective length of 'said tension means, and flexible tension means constituting a unitary loop secured at its ends to the buoyancy structure at the right and left sides thereof, respectively, the unitary loop thus being engageable directly from right to left under the body of the wearer as a transversely disposed seat, and the two said tension means being thus adapted to maintain the said buoyancy structure, alternatively, at each of the two said positions in relation to the wearers body.
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