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US 5,158,489 AGranted
Marine rescue life net
AssigneeNippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
InventorsKazuharu Araki, Nobuyuki Yamamoto
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Abstract
A marine life net used for rescuing the victim of a marine accident. The marine rescue life net includes a network structure composed of vertical ropes and transverse ropes knitted across each other, a plurality of marginal buoys attached to opposite marginal ends of the network structure, upper and lower elongate members, a suspending structure serving to suspend the network structure, and a plurality of central vertical buoys, each attached to a vertical central line of the network structure.
Claims10
A marine rescue life net comprising:
- a network comprising vertical and transverse ropes arranged orthogonally to form a plurality of similarly sized interstices;
- a plurality of marginal buoys attached to ones of said vertical ropes constituting opposite marginal edges of said network, said marginal buoys being disposed singularly between adjacent transverse ropes;
- upper and lower elongate members engaged with upper and lower ends, respectively, of said network;
- suspending means coupled to said upper elongate member;
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- a plurality of central buoys attached to at least a portion of at least one central vertical rope of said network.
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