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US 4,223,415 AGranted
Waterborne life-saving apparatus
OwnerJames J. Pattoninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus according to the above title comprising a buoyant raft spacedly surrounded by and connected to a buoyant ring from the periphery of which depends a water-containable bag forming a shark screen about the raft, and additionally such raft in which the water-containable bag is formed by the canopy of a parachute in which the raft is packed, the periphery of the canopy containing inflatable element connected to the raft and, when inflated, forming the surrounding buoyant ring.
Claims10
A water-borne life-saving apparatus, comprising:
- a raft having a bottom and a buoyant, peripheral wall secured to and rising from said bottom;
- a buoyant, horizontally oriented peripheral member spacedly surrounding the raft;
- a plurality of elements spaced about and secured to the raft and extending horizontally outwardly from the raft to and secured to the peripheral member to maintain the spaced relation between the raft and member and to add to the buoyancy of the raft;
- and a water-containable bag closed at its bottom and sides and having its top peripheral edge secured to the peripheral member, said bag descending from the peripheral member and forming a water-containing shark screen around and below the raft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.