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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bernard Castagner, Coupvray, FR;
Jean-Pierre Boyault, Lognes, FR;
Assignee:
S.E.I.B. SARL, Reims, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63C 9/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B63C 9/22 ;
Abstract
The invention concerns an inflatable life buoy launcher gun for throwing, towards a shipwrecked person, a life buoy or life jacket folded in a sheathing body around a pyrotechnic gas generator. When the life buoy or life jacket reaches near the person, the life buoy or life jacket is inflated by means of gas generator gases. The folded life buoy or life jacket is launched from a launching tube provided with a firing handle and a launching gas generator.