RESILIENT INSTRUMENT CARRYING CASE

• US 3,724,277 A
• Filed: 03/22/1971
• Issued: 04/03/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jean Rene Parmentier
• Original Assignee: Jean Rene Parmentier
• Inventors: Parmentier, Jean Rene
• Primary Examiner(s): Swisher, S. Clement
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yasich, Daniel M.
• Application Number:
  US05/126,558
• Time in Patent Office: 743 Days
• Field of Search: 73/430,431 244/148 324/156 248/358R,27 33/225R
• US Class Current: 73/201
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 17/34 adapted to control direction or rate of descent

Abstract

A case or enclosure enclosing at least one instrument which is protected against shocks by a body of neoprene or the like elastomer. The elastomer body is provided with a recess the shape and size of which match those of the instrument embedded within said recess, preferably open at both ends. Such cases are intended for use by parachutists or else for laboratory purposes or again on vehicle instrument boards.

Claims

2. An instrument case as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body has openings therein, one of which allows inspection of the instrument and the other the insertion of the latter inside the body, the body having said recess to engage and hold the instrument in position.

3. An instrument case as claimed in claim 2, comprising a plate, the case having a top, means securing the plate to the case top, surrounding one of said openings in the body and said plate including a depending inwardly bent flange portion, the elastomeric body having a peripheral groove therein engaged by said bent flange portion.

4. An instrument case as claimed in claim 2, comprising a plate, the case having a top, means securing the plate to the case top, surrounding one of said openings in the body and said plate including a depending inwardly bent flange portion, the elastomeric body having a peripheral groove engaged by said bent flange portion, the upper edge of the body above said peripheral groove and projecting above the plate when the latter in not fitted to the case top.

5. An instrument case as claimed in claim 1, adapted to carry two said instruments, wherein two elastomeric bodies are juxtaposed and held fast inside the case and have recesses in which the peripheries of the corresponding instruments are embedded.