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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2019
Lyman Fawcett, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Lyman Fawcett, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Halkey-Roberts Corporation, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Abstract
An inflator including in combination, an inflator body having at one end an input for receiving the neck of a gas cartridge, a manifold assembly intended to be fluidly connected to an inflatable, a combination automatic and manual actuator assembly including a spring-loaded actuator including a pierce pin for fracturing a frangible seal of the gas cartridge, a bobbin with a dissolvable pill that retains the spring-loaded actuator in a cocked position by an annular ring seat that engages the bobbin and a hood connected onto the end of the inflator body, the hood including an inwardly-extending tab that engages the actuator to securely retain the hood onto the end of the inflator body by means of the inwardly-extending tab being grasped by the forked end of the actuator.