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Delayed restraint release device for inflatable escape slides

  • US 4,567,977 A
  • Filed: 05/14/1984
  • Issued: 02/04/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an inflatable emergency evacuation slide having an inboard end and an outboard end, a delayed restraint release device comprising:

  • strap means having a pair of spaced ends, one of said ends connected to a portion of said slide remote from said inboard end and the other of said ends adapted to be connected to an aircraft from which said evacuation slide is to be deployed,a separable mechanism coupling said strap means together at a location intermediate said spaced ends to temporarily preclude deployment of said slide,means to retard separation of said separable mechanism including a housing, a piston within said housing, an aperture in said piston, and a fluid within said housing moveable from one side of said piston to the other side of said piston through said aperture in said piston.

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