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US3838471A
US3838471A US00230286A US23028672A US3838471A US 3838471 A US3838471 A US 3838471A US 00230286 A US00230286 A US 00230286A US 23028672 A US23028672 A US 23028672A US 3838471 A US3838471 A US 3838471A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C9/00—Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/08—Life-buoys, e.g. rings; Life-belts, jackets, suits, or the like
    • B63C9/11—Life-buoys, e.g. rings; Life-belts, jackets, suits, or the like covering the torso, e.g. harnesses
    • B63C9/115—Life-buoys, e.g. rings; Life-belts, jackets, suits, or the like covering the torso, e.g. harnesses using solid buoyant material

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  • ABSTRACT A safety bathing-suit comprising bathing-trunks to which three pairs of floats are connected. Two pairs of floats are on the sides and the other pair being on the breast and the back to provide a truly safe, not bulky and practical bathing-suit which does not hinder movements when swimming.
  • a safety bathing-suit which essentially comprises a bathing-trunks member to which three pairs of floaters are connected by means of ties or belts. Of the floaters, two pairs are placed on the wearers sides and each floater provides one eighth of the total additional buoyancy required, the other pair of floaters being placed on the breast and the back of the wearer. Each floater of this latter pair provides the remaining half of the buoyancy thrust. It has been ascertained that a safe floating requires a buoyancy thrust (in addition to that provided by the wearers body volume) of about to percent of the wearers weight. Thus, a truly safe, not bulky and practical bathing-suit is provided which ensures buoyancy to the wearer without hindering his movements when swimming.
  • This invention relates to a safety bathing-suit which is particularly useful to those who desire to learn swimming and also to those who, being an even skilled swimmer, desires to swim under conditions of absolute safety.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a safety bathing-suit which is adapted to ensure, in addition to preventing the bather from sinking, the most desirable equilibrium conditions in order that the bather may easily take the exact positions which are necessary for practising any kind of styles of swimming strokes, or
  • This invention substantially does away with the problems and defects as enumerated above by means of a safety bathing-suit which is characterized by a particular symmetry of mass-arrangement which are adapted to impress a buoyancy thrust to the swimmers body, without hindering his movements in the slightest and assuring, as the swimmer is in a vertical posture in water, that both the head and the shoulders may assuredly stay above the water level.
  • the safety bathing-suit according to the present invention of the kind comprising a bathing-trunks member, members for hooking the suit to the body, and parts which impress a buoyancy thrust to the wearers body, is characterized in that the parts which impress a buoyancy thrust comprise two floaters, equal to one another, and placed on the breast and the back, respectively, and four floaters, equal to each other and symmetrically arranged, pairwise, with respect to the wearers sides, said floating component parts being connected to the bathing-trunks member by properly adjustable ties.
  • one half of the buoyancy thrust which is required is given by the pair of back and breast floaters, respectively, whereas the remaining half is evenly apportioned among the four floaters placed at the waists height.
  • FIG. 1 is a front perspective view showing the safety bathing-suit according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatical front view showing a wearer of the bathing-suit of FIG. 1, and
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are a side view and a rear view, respectively, showing the same wearer of FIG. 2.
  • the safety bathing-suit in question comprises a bathingtrunks member 10, made of any suitable textile material having an appropriate elasticity, said bathingtrunks having two reinforced gores ll, 12, front and back, respectively, and reinforced edges 13.
  • the floaters 19 are fastened, in such a way as to permit that their positions may be adjusted, to the edge of the bathing trunks 10 at the bottom, to the belts of ties 22 at the top, and to the belts or ties 14, 15, laterally.
  • All the floaters should be made of an appropriate material and their size will be calculated as a function of the different weights of the wearers, in the manner to be specified hereinafter.
  • the overall buoyancy thrust due to the floaters should be about 10-20 percent of the wearers body weight, said percentage being increased as the wearers age decreases.
  • the reason therefor is that the influence of the weight and size of the head as compared with the remaining parts of the body decreases as the wearers age grows, starting from a maximum value as experienced in the first years of human life.
  • H, L and S indicate, with reference to the bathingsuit as worn by a standing wearer, the height (that is, the overall vertical dimension), the width (that is, the maximum horizontal dimension) and the thickness of the back and breast floaters, respectively, whereas F indicates the buoyancy thrust due to each of the back and breast floaters.
  • EXAMPLE 1 For children having from 15 to 25 kgs. body weight, it has been found that an overall buoyancy thrust of 3 kgs. is required, to be distributed as follows:
  • a safety bathing-suit comprising a bathing trunks portion, members which impact a buoyancy thrust to the wearer of the bathing-suit connected to said bathing trunks portion, said members including a first floater substantially symmetrically proportioned for covering the center portion of the chest of the wearer without extending to the area of the body of the arms of the wearer,
  • a second floater of substantially the same size and buoyancy as said first floater located at substantially the same height and centered on the back of the wearer
  • first and second floaters constituting a first floater system
  • said pairs of floaters positioned at the sides constituting a second floater system and a third floater system
  • said first system being connected to said second system and said third system, and also tied to said bathing trunks portion at a place vertically below the first system.
  • a bathing-suit according to claim 1 characterized in that said ties are elastically stretchable.

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US7937770B1 (en) 2008-04-16 2011-05-10 Hernandez Marcos Inflatable swimsuit
US20130014310A1 (en) * 2011-07-15 2013-01-17 Tang Tai Shun Swimsuit with lifesaving device
US9161577B1 (en) * 2011-09-15 2015-10-20 Jonathan R. Harper Inflatable undergarment
US20250351898A1 (en) * 2024-05-20 2025-11-20 Laura Rodriguez Bathing suit having closeable panel in a lower portion

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GB119277A (en) * 1917-09-25 1918-09-25 Alfred Joseph Wakeford Improvements in or relating to Wearing Apparel.
US1730812A (en) * 1928-02-10 1929-10-08 James O Ford Bathing suit
US2197228A (en) * 1937-12-17 1940-04-16 Then Alois Safety swimming suit
US2223880A (en) * 1938-03-14 1940-12-03 Ardern Arthur Thomas Buoyancy device
US3023433A (en) * 1958-06-10 1962-03-06 Solomon Brown Buoyant bathing and swim suit
GB1007107A (en) * 1963-10-04 1965-10-13 Kenneth Peterson Company Buoyant swimming vest

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US4047255A (en) * 1976-05-04 1977-09-13 Kiefer James E Flotation hiking harness
US20040203302A1 (en) * 2002-07-30 2004-10-14 Freeman Jeffrey G. Personal flotation devices
US7037155B2 (en) * 2002-07-30 2006-05-02 Freeman Jeffrey G Personal flotation devices
US7937770B1 (en) 2008-04-16 2011-05-10 Hernandez Marcos Inflatable swimsuit
US20130014310A1 (en) * 2011-07-15 2013-01-17 Tang Tai Shun Swimsuit with lifesaving device
US9161577B1 (en) * 2011-09-15 2015-10-20 Jonathan R. Harper Inflatable undergarment
US9974343B2 (en) * 2011-09-15 2018-05-22 Jonathan Harper Inflatable undergarment
US20250351898A1 (en) * 2024-05-20 2025-11-20 Laura Rodriguez Bathing suit having closeable panel in a lower portion

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