Packing sack for a life jacket and its easy access storage, especially in an aircraft

US4883242A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messerschmitt Bolkow Blohm GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhard Becker · Wiesbaden, DE
• Bruno Jansa · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 1987
• Grant date: Nov 28, 1989
• Expiry date: Dec 7, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B63C9/22
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A packing sack or bag for holding a life jacket, providing an easy access thereto, preferably in an aircraft, has the shape of a hose with an open end (6) and a closed end (7). The closed end (7) forms a tab (8) to receive at least one securing element (9). A rip cord (14) fixed at one point (17) situated approximately at the middle of the length of the bag (2, 3, 4) and surrounding the extremity of the folded life jacket (16) turned to the side of the open end (6) of the bag (2, 3, 4), extends along the inner surface of the bag (2, 3, 4) and comes out through its open end (6). The bag may be directly suspended from a wall or a ceiling or may be placed into a container (1). The main advantage of such a packing sack is that the required manipulation to grab the life jacket (16) may be easily executed by a single hand.