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Motorcyclist's air strips II

  • US 5,535,446 A
  • Filed: 05/31/1994
  • Issued: 07/16/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An easily stowable protective device to be worn over a cyclist'"'"'s clothing during riding a cycle, the device being activated in the event of an accident to protect the cyclist, the protective device comprising:

  • at least one main source of pressurized gas including at least one fluid inlet and at least two fluid outlets, one of the fluid outlets including a rapidly burning propellant for causing an explosion, the main source of pressurized gas being designed as an irregular circle and having a form of a tube so as to encircle a cyclist'"'"'s neck and to be easily attachable to a helmet;

    at least one supporting source of pressurized gas being formed as a tube and having at least one fluid inlet and one fluid outlet, said supporting source being spatially separated from the main source of pressurized gas;

    an ignitor unit for generating an electric current to initiate the explosion in the main source of pressurized gas and the supporting source of pressurized gas, the ignitor unit being connected on both said sources of pressurized gas;

    an activator cord having first and second ends, the first cord end being attachable to a cycle and the second cord end being attachable to the ignitor unit whereby if a cyclist is thrown from a cycle the second cord end is detached from the ignitor unit so as to generate the electric current and ignite the propellant in both said sources of pressurized gas;

    at least two electric current transmitting cables having first and second ends, the first ends being connected to the ignitor unit and the second ends being connected to both said sources of pressurized gas so as to transmit the electric current from the ignitor unit to the sources of pressurized gas;

    a lateral neck protecting air strip encasing the main source of pressurized gas;

    at least one longitudinal neck protecting air strip extending from the lateral neck protecting air strip, the longitudinal protecting air strip spaced next to one of the fluid outlets in the main source of pressurized gas;

    a lateral torso protecting air strip having front and rear sections so as to encircle a torso and shoulders of a cyclist;

    a horizontal hips protecting strip; and

    a plurality of additional protective air stripsall of the protecting air strips being in unrestricted fluid communication with one another and the fluid outlets in the main and supporting sources of pressurized gas so as to provide pressurized gas to said air strips for inflating said air strips into air tubes for protecting a cyclist;

    the air strips being connected to one another so that they can be worn over cyclist'"'"'s clothing and each air strip being substantially flattened in its uninflated state and inflatable into said air tube shape when pressurized gas is introduced into substantially fluid tight air passage and wherein a plurality of open spaces are provided between the air strips so that the air strips have a compact easily stowable design.

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