Patents Assigned to RFD Inflatables Limited
  • Escape slides
    Patent number: 4378861
    Abstract: An escape slide arranged to provide an inclined descent path for evacuees, the slide includes a support structure and a slideway supported thereby, the slideway includes a sheet of flexible material provided with holes through which water drains. The sheet preferably comprises a warp knitted fabric net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: RFD Inflatables Limited
    Inventors: Philip M. Burrough, David V. Edwards
  • Inflatable liferafts
    Patent number: 4362517
    Abstract: An inflatable liferaft comprising a pressurized air or gas inflation unit, an elongate flexible support connected between a point of attachment on the liferaft and the inflation unit for supporting the inflation unit at a position remote from the point of attachment and carrying an air or gas flexible supply line or lines from the inflation unit to the liferaft, whereby during inflation of the liferaft the point of attachment has freedom to move relative to the inflation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: RFD Inflatables Limited
    Inventor: Michael D. Martin
  • Inflatable liferafts of thermoplastic material and methods for their manufacture
    Patent number: 4083070
    Abstract: A method of making an inflatable liferaft from thermoplastic sheet material, wherein the thermoplastic sheet material which is to form a floor of the liferaft is heat welded around the periphery of the floor to the thermoplastic sheet material which is to form a peripheral inflatable buoyancy tube of the liferaft, after which edges of the material which is to form the tube are joined by heat welding to close the tube along its longitudinal extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: RFD Inflatables Limited
    Inventor: Michael Dudley Martin