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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1983
Mark Faulconer, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Allan R Langton, Aukland, NZ;
U.S.D. Corp, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Abstract
The following specification discloses a buoyancy compensator bladder and method of manufacture therefor. The bladder has a plurality of gussets implaced therein in order to rigidify and maintain a pre-established general configuration to the bladder. A plurality of insets or pleats are implaced around the shoulder area to provide for a generally arcuate curvilinear conformation therearound. A nylon plastic coated material is used for the gussets having one side that can be bonded to the inner side of the bladder, while the other side is formed from a nylon having a higher melting temperature. The gussets that are made from the nylon coated material are folded and implaced within the bladder or cavity formed from a plurality of sheets, the combination of which is brought together and heatset by means of an RF heater, or other suitable heater. The gusset material is formed from a nylon fabric having a polyurethane coating thereon formed from a liquidous first coating with two sheets adhered thereto to form a thickened polyurethane coating over one surface thereof without completely penetrating through the interstices to the other side to the extent where it would melt and bind during the forming operation.