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US 8,998,667 B2Granted
Personal floatation device having selectively inflatable bladders
OwnerAdam J. Malcominventor
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Abstract
A personal floatation device includes a housing and a plurality of bladders disposed within the housing. The plurality of bladders are movable between a non-deployed position within the housing and extendable from the housing to a deployed position. A device is provided for selectively filling the bladder with a substance that is buoyant in water and causing the bladder to be moved from the non-deployed position to the deployed position. The bladder filling and deploying mechanism can be a cartridge that contains a supply of a compressed gas.
Claims4
A personal floatation device comprising:
- a housing adapted to be secured about a waist of a user;
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- a dual section bladder assembly secured to the housing and including a center wall section having first and second sides and a plurality of extending portions, a first wall section attached to the first side of the center wall section and including a plurality of extending portions that cooperate with the plurality of extending portions of the center wall section to define a first plurality of hollow bladder cavities, and a second wall section attached to the second side of the center wall section to define a second plurality of hollow bladder cavities, wherein the dual section bladder assembly is movable from a non-deployed position,
- wherein the dual section bladder assembly is disposed completely within the housing, to a deployed position, wherein the dual section bladder assembly extends outwardly from the housing.
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