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US 4,731,037 AGranted
Water survival kit
OwnerMark A. Rhodesinventor
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Abstract
A portable water survival kit includes a small life raft apparatus which may be attached to and carried by a user. When needed, the small life raft may be quickly removed from a carrying case and inflated through the use of a permanently attached compressed gas cartridge.
Claims6
A new and improved inflatable life raft assembly comprising:
- inflatable life raft means;
- valve assembly means directly attached to said inflatable life raft means by a conduit without any other intervening support structure positioned between said valve assembly means and said raft, said valve assembly means includes a manually reciprocable valve member means for effecting inflation of said life raft means;
- said manually reciprocable valve member means including a non-shearable pin means positioned for manual removal within an aperture contained within a shaft of said valve member for manual removal to permit reciprocation of said valve member, said shaft formed with a manually engageable first end extending outwardly and exteriorly of a housing first end and extending interiorly of said housing terminating in a pointed second end proximate a compressed gas means securable to said housing at a housing second end remote from said housing first end,
- said non-shearable pin means positioned exteriorly of said housing, and
- said compressed gas means operably attachable to said valve assembly means for releasing gas to said inflatable raft means upon reciprocation of said valve member to rupture said compressed gas means;
- container means including a closure flap for enabling complete removal of said raft and valve member from said container means and for carrying said inflatable life raft means in a deflated condition, and
- attachment means for effecting a direct attachment to a user prior to an inflation of said inflatable life raft means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.