Container for pneumatic inflatable life raft, and pneumatic inflatable life raft equipped with same
AssigneeZodiac International
InventorAlain Richard
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Abstract
The invention concerns a rigid container having a generally horizontal elongated and non-parallelepiped shape, for containing a pneumatic inflatable life raft in deflated and folded state, said container (1) being formed by two respectively upper and lower mutually assembled half-shells (2, 3). The invention is characterised in that at least the lower half-shell (2) has, on its outer convex face, a zone with generally planar axial surface (6) whereby the container can rest in stable position on a subjacent substantially planar support surface.
Claims15
A rigid container of horizontally elongate and non-parallelepipedal overall shape, arranged for housing an inflatable life raft in the deflated and folded state, said container (1) being formed as two half-shells (2, 3), these being a lower one and an upper one respectively, assembled together, characterized in that at least the lower half-shell (2) exhibits, on its convex external face, a generally flat axially-extending region (6) by means of which the container can rest stably on a roughly flat underlying support surface.
The container for a life raft according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the lower half-shell (2) is equipped with movement means (11) arranged in conjunction with said generally flat region, particularly in the hollow impressions (10) of said generally flat region (6).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.