Protective device

• US 3,309,109 A
• Filed: 02/23/1965
• Issued: 03/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard A. Baughman
• Original Assignee: Richard A. Baughman
• Inventors: Baughman, Richard A.
• Application Number:
  US04/434,312
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• US Class Current: 280/748
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/02 Occupant safety arrangements or fittings , e.g. crash pads seat belts with crash pads B60R22/14; removable children's seats having a front guard or barrier B60N2/2839

Claims

1. MEANS FOR RESTRAINING MATTER MOVABLY DISPOSED WITHIN A COMPARTMENT AGAINST SUDDEN IMPACT COMPRISING, A VESSEL ADAPTED TO WITHSTAND INTERNAL PRESSURE AND HAVING A DISCHARGE PORT, A RELEASABLE CLOSURE SEALINGLY FITTED TO SAID VESSEL TO CLOSE SAID DISCHARGE PORT, RELEASE MEANS ENGAGING SAID RELEASABLE CLOSURE AND RESTRAINING SAID CLOSURE AGAINST PRESSURE EXERTED THEREON FROM WITHIN SAID VESSEL, MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID RELEASE MEANS TO RELEASE SAID CLOSURE SUBSTANTIALLY ENTIRELY UPON ACTUATION THEREOF, THEREBY OPENING SAID PORT, AND A LARGE PLURALITY OF FREE VOLUMETRICALLY COMPRESSIBLE RESILIENT ELEMENTS WITHIN SAID VESSEL, SAID ELEMENTS HAVING A TOTAL VOLUME AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CONDITIONS WHICH IS MANY TIMES THE INTERNAL VOLUME OF SAID VESSEL BUT BEING COMPRESSED BY GAS PRESSURE WITHIN SAID VESSEL TO CONFORM TO THE VOLUME OF SAID VESSEL, THE SAID ELEMENTS BEING OF A SIZE AND SHAPE PERMITTING THEM TO MOVE FREELY THROUGH SAID PORT WHEN SAID CLOSURE IS RELEASED THEREFROM, THE COMPRESSION OF SAID GAS AND SAID ELEMENTS WITHIN SAID VESSEL BEING SUFFICIENT THAT UPON RELEASE OF SAID CLOSURE SAID ELEMENTS ARE EXPELLED FROM SAID VESSEL.