Air Cruisers Company

Stanley J Pawlowski, Jr

Thomas W Swierkocki

Sean M Blazick

Christian W Thomson

Frank John Brown

Alexandre Targiroff

Alejandra Gabriela Cardona Erives

Elizabeth López Reyes

Rubén Salinas Hinojos

Donna Eckert

Adrian Enrique Fernández Manriquez

Ana Karina Navar Guerra

Linda Radomski

Juan Ramón Burciaga Holguín

Cristina Ramos

Alberto González Montes

Bruno Cuisset

Methods for fabricating inflatable devices made from air- or gas-holding fabrics. Specific embodiments relate to seam tapes, films, structural components or accessories welded to one or more fabric panels. Specifically disclosed is a fabrication system and method that reduces potential damage due to overheating seam areas. This disclosure has been found particularly useful with improved lightweight fabrics that would otherwise be susceptible to damage during welding processes.

Methods for fabricating inflatable devices

Embodiments generally to raft assembly components and methods. Specific aspects provide a tape configuration that can assist positioning of raft tubes with respect to one another, as well as positioning a life raft floor with respect to one or more of the raft tubes. The tape configuration may have a base and an extending T-shaped flange.

Raft assembly components and methods

A flexible connection joint for inflatable structures such as life rafts, evacuation slides, and the like, includes a flexible connection member to join walls of the inflatable structure together. The flexible connection member includes first and second strip portions that are bonded together at one end to from three legs that can be joined to two or three walls of the structure or to other connecting elements or strips. In this manner, a tensile force acting on at least one of the walls of the structure causes generation of shear forces between the flexible legs and walls to thereby resist their separation.

Method for joining components of inflatable structures

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South River, NJ, United States of America

Stanley J Pawlowski, Jr