Disposable Inflator
AssigneeHalkey-Roberts Corporation
InventorsLyman Fawcett, Taylor Breau
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Abstract
An inflator including in combination an inflator body having at one end an input for receiving the neck of a gas cartridge, a manifold assembly intended to be fluidly connected to an inflatable, a combination automatic and manual actuator assembly including a spring-loaded actuator including a pierce pin for fracturing a frangible seal of the gas cartridge, a bobbin with a dissolvable pill that retains the spring-loaded actuator in a cocked position and a hood connected onto the end of the inflator body, said hood including an inwardly-extending tab that engages the actuator to securely retain the hood onto the end of the inflator body by means of the inwardly-extending tab being grasped by the forked end of the actuator.
Claims16
An inflator comprising in combination:
- an inflator body having at one end an input for receiving the neck of a gas cartridge;
- a manifold assembly intended to be fluidly connected to an inflatable;
- a combination automatic and manual actuator assembly including:
- a spring-loaded actuator including a pierce pin for fracturing a frangible seal of the gas cartridge;
- a bobbin with a dissolvable pill that retains the spring-loaded actuator in a cocked position;
- opposing alignment ears extending radially from opposing sides of said actuator that fit into corresponding slots formed in the bobbin to preclude rotational movement of the actuator;
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- a hood connected onto the end of the inflator body, said hood including an inwardly-extending tab that engages the actuator to securely retain the hood onto the end of the inflator body by means of the inwardly-extending tab being grasped by a forked end of the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.