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US 9,173,789 B2Granted
Rapid intervention rescue device
AssigneeMFT Internal Inc.
InventorsFrank Haskell, Thomas J. Fee, Michael P. Harty
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Abstract
An emergency drag stretcher is disclosed that combines a base panel formed of a flexible sheet material and a harness. The harness securely restrains an individual and holds the base panel against the individual, allowing the individual to be dragged or vertically lifted using the emergency drag stretcher.
Claims13
A rescue device comprising:
- a harness comprising a plurality of harness straps;
- a harness bag having an interior cavity that contains the harness when in a non-deployed state;
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- a plurality of fasteners disposed within the interior cavity of the harness bag to releasably secure excess slack of the plurality of harness straps within the interior cavity of the harness bag when the harness is in the non-deployed state,
- wherein proximal ends of each of the plurality of harness straps are secured within the harness bag,
- wherein the plurality of harness straps include shoulder straps and a waist strap, each having respective distal ends that each pass through respective slots in the harness bag to extend outside of the harness bag,
- wherein, when the rescue device is in the non-deployed state, distal ends of each of the plurality of harness straps are releasably secured on an exterior surface of the harness bag, and
- wherein, to deploy the rescue device, the distal ends of each of the plurality of harness straps are released from the exterior surface of the harness bag and each of the plurality of harness straps are extracted from within the harness bag by pulling each of the plurality of harness straps through the respective slots in the harness bag.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.