US Patent: 2,070,818 - Lifesaving Jacket with Automatic Electric Lighting Unit


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US Patent: 2,070,818

Lifesaving Jacket with Automatic Electric Lighting Unit

Patentee:

Gunnar A. F. Winckler (exact or similar names) - Worcester, Worcester County, MA

USPTO Classifications:

362/108, 362/208, 429/119, 441/111, 441/18, 441/89

Tool Categories:

transportation : nautical : life preservers

Assignees:

Winckler Engineering Laboratories, Inc. - Worcester, Worcester County, MA

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Feb. 09, 1934
Granted:	Feb. 16, 1937

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Description:

Application renewed 09 Jun., 1936.

Abstract:

The invention consists of a life-jacket provided with an automatic lighting generator, lighting unit suitably secured in a pocket in the lifesaving jacket which will automatically light when thrown into the waters of the salt seas to locate the person in distress.

Claim:

In a lifesaving jacket, in combination .with an automatic sea water link electrical generator having positive and negative poles operating in saline solution when the generator is immersed 830 therein, a lamp carried by the generator to be energized thereby, a pocket in the jacket open at one end for removably supporting the generator.