Flotation vest
AssigneeAmerica's Cup, Inc.
InventorsRobert G. Harr, Gaylord T. Soli
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Abstract
Foam buoyancy sections carried in the front of a flotation vest are formed in four separate pieces that are cut from rectangular sheets of buoyancy material without any waste material.
Claims16
A flotation vest having an outer shell including a back section and left and right front sections joined to the back section at the top and at the sides to form arm holes, and internal buoyancy means carried by the shell and including front portions formed by at least four pieces of buoyancy material which when properly fitted edgewise together form rectangular pieces such that there is no waste material in cutting the pieces from rectangular sheets, the front buoyancy portions include a lower body piece and a shoulder piece carried by each of the left and right front sections, each of said body pieces having a lower edge, a central edge, a side edge, and an upper edge, each shoulder piece including a lower edge, an arm hole edge, a neck hole edge, and an upper edge, the shoulder piece lower edge being positioned to engage the body piece upper edge with said engaging edges being formed to engage at an angle such that the arm hole edge and the neck hole edge of the shoulder piece slope at an angle upwardly and outwardly away from the body piece central edge, the width of a shoulder piece between the arm hole and neck hole edges being considerably less than the width of a body piece between its side and central edges so that with the shoulder piece lower edge being positioned close to the body piece central edge, a portion of the body piece upper edge forms an arm hole with the arm hole edge of a shoulder piece.
A flotation vest having an outer shell including a back section and left and right front sections joined to the back sections at the top and at the sides to form arm holes, and internal buoyancy means carried by the shell and including front portions formed by at least four pieces of buoyancy material which when properly fitted edgewise together form rectangular pieces such that there is no waste material in cutting the pieces from rectangular sheets, the front buoyancy portions include a straight edged lower body piece and a straight edged shoulder piece carried by each of the left and right front sections, each of said body pieces having a lower edge, a central edge perpendicular to the lower edge, a side edge parallel to central and shorter than the central edge, and an upper edge extending it an angle of about 20.degree. with respect to the lower edge, each shoulder piece having a rectangular shape including a lower edge, an arm hole edge, a neck hole edge, and an upper edge, the shoulder piece lower edge being positioned to engage the body piece upper edge such that the arm hole edge and the neck hole edge of the shoulder piece slope at an angle upwardly and outwardly away from the body piece central edge, the length of the shoulder piece lower edge being considerably shorter than the width of a body piece, and said outer shell is formed so that the neck hole edge of the shoulder piece intersects the upper end of the body portion central edge.
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