Survitec Group Limited

Paul Oliver

Peter Cronin Gordon

Elizabeth Porter Brown

Nigel Parkes

Alkistis Kokorikou

Richard Craig Griffin

Stuart Douglas Gregory

Elizabeth Brown

A personal survival system for use in water includes an inflatable chamber () and in inflation system () operable to inflate the inflatable chamber (), wherein the inflation system () is mounted separately from and remotely from the inflatable chamber (). Also disclosed are: a survival system for use in water includes an inflatable chamber including an inner layer and an outer layer, wherein the inner layer is separate from the outer layer; an inflation control system for use with an in-water survival system, the inflation control system comprises a selectively sealable chamber configured to contain water-triggered automatic inflation device of the survival system; and a personal survival system including an inflatable bladder and a moulded cover constructed from a flexible polymer.

Survival systems

Lifesaving clothing

An aircrew ensemble comprising a garment () for covering at least a part of a body of a wearer and an inflatable counter-pressure bladder (), carried by the garment (). The inflatable counter-pressure bladder () is formed from a moisture permeable material allowing the passage therethrough of perspiration from the wearer's body.

Aircrew ensembles

An attachment system principally use on garment () provides a number of aligned loops () on the garment and a number of aligned loops () on a load such as an equipment pack (). The load also includes an elongate securing member that extends from the load with a flexible proximal portion () and a stiffened distal portion (). The stiffened distal portion () can be very readily threaded through successive ensemble loops () and load loops () to pull the flexible proximal portion () through the loops () to attach the load () to the garment (). The stiffened distal portion () is then fed back through the loops () to provide a geometric lock that prevents the load () detaching from the garment (). Various loads can be attached in this way.

Attachment systems

A method of countering the effects of G-forces on a person comprises passing inflation gas to a bladder () around a leg of the person by starting the inflation of the bladder () to an operating pressure from a point () adjacent an ankle of the leg as well as from a point () spaced from said ankle towards the abdomen of the wearer. The inflation then progresses away from the ankle at the same time as the upper part of the bladder is being inflated. When the bladder () is inflated to the operating pressure, the blood vessels of the leg are constricted.

A conditioning garment has front and rear panels () with a neck opening () between them. A manifold () extends along the lower edge of the front () panel and a manifold () extends along the lower edge of the rear panel (). Tubes () extend between the manifolds () and carry conditioned liquid over the torso of a wearer to heat/cool the torso. The tubes () are equally spaced and generally the same length to provide even heating/cooling. The garment () is easy to don and remove. The garment () can be modified by the addition of various chest compression devices, a neck support and a harness tensioning device. All these are designed to encounter increased +G-forces on the body of a wearer.

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Paul Oliver