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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2008
Applicant:
Thomas A. Apple, Suffolk, VA (US);
Inventor:
Thomas A. Apple, Suffolk, VA (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A life raft canister is launched from a below deck doorway. A launcher is activated and pneumatically opens a below deck door, exposing the doorway. The same inflation tank inflates an elongated bladder that forces the life boat canister out of the doorway. The canister drops to the sea where the life boat is deployed from the canister. The life raft auto-inflates. As a result, a life raft is deployed from below-deck.