EP1520780B1 - Ballast system for buoyancy compensator vest - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a weight system for underwater diving vests.
- the compensating vests are inflatable envelopes traditionally worn around the neck and which serve to balance the divers during their immersion, ie to compensate the variation of their weight according to the depth and the level of filling of their reserve. gas.
- vests are usually inflated by an oral inflator or a gas source when the diver needs to increase his buoyancy because he tends to go to the bottom and deflated by means of appropriate purges when his buoyancy becomes too great and that the diver has a tendency to go up. The diver can thus if he wishes to seek a position of constant balance regardless of its variable weight.
- the diver To compensate in part for this imbalance at the lift when the bottle is empty, the diver must imperatively use a lead belt which the weight is calculated so that the empty bottle does not attract the plunger towards the surface at the end of the dive nor towards the bottom too quickly at the beginning of this one.
- This lead belt must however be able to be dropped at any time if safety requires, and especially if the diver runs out of air during a dive and is forced to reach the surface.
- the system according to the present invention aims to overcome these disadvantages.
- ballast sheath at least one of the faces is reinforced by a sufficiently rigid and slightly longer than the sheath itself so that the restraint system has a leverage effect contributing to maintain it in place in the pocket of the compensation vest for housing.
- the device consists of a ballast element contained in a sheath 1 intended to be inserted into one or more pockets 2 of a compensation vest 3 ( Figures 1 and 2).
- the sheath 1, of textile or thermoplastic material or equivalent, is preferably of rectangular shape but may be in any other form suitable for application.
- the ballast 4 will be maintained in the sheath by any satisfactory means, seam, flap or closure of any kind.
- This sheath 1 is longitudinally reinforced at least on one side and possibly on two sides by a plate 5 sufficiently rigid so that the sheath ballast can be introduced into the pocket 2 of the vest 3 provided for this purpose and dimensioned so that the sheath to the ballast once in place, and whatever its loading, or substantially the same volume and requires the same effort to drop.
- the reinforcing plate 5 of the sheath 1 to ballast will be substantially longer than the sheath itself on the side of the retaining strap such that once it is in place in the pocket 2 provided for this purpose and then locked, this wafer exerts a leverage contributing to firmly hold the sheath 1 to ballast in said pocket.
- the retaining strap consists of a flexible band 6 fixed on one side to the sheath 1 and, on the other side, substantially in the middle of a rigid flexible blade 7, one end of which is tapered to facilitate its insertion into the housing of the specific holding loop 8 secured to the vest 3.
- the rigid blade 7 will have at the end opposite the tapered portion a handle 9 or a form allowing easy grip.
- the holding loop 8 is equipped with an articulated lever 10 arranged to ensure, in the closed position (FIG. 5), the blocking of the rigid blade 7 by means of a notches 11 provided on the latter, and to open by releasing the sheath. 1 when a lateral traction T is exerted on the handle 9, so that the plunger can actuate it with one hand by acting on the handle consisting of an external rotational movement and then of forward traction these two movements combined to prevent an inadvertent release caused by a pull on the handle by mistake ( Figures 6 and 7).
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La présente invention a pour objet un système de lestage pour gilets de plongée sous-marine.The present invention relates to a weight system for underwater diving vests.
Elle se rapporte d'une manière générale au domaine industriel et commercial de la fabrication et de la diffusion d'articles destinés aux plongeurs aussi bien amateurs que professionnels utilisant des gilets de compensation jouant le rôle de bouées d'équilibrage.It relates generally to the industrial and commercial field of the manufacture and distribution of articles intended for divers, both amateur and professional, using compensating vests acting as balancing buoys.
Les gilets de compensation sont des enveloppes gonflables traditionnellement portées autour du cou et qui servent à équilibrer les plongeurs au cours de leur immersion c'est à dire à compenser la variation de leur poids en fonction de la profondeur et du niveau de remplissage de leur réserve de gaz.The compensating vests are inflatable envelopes traditionally worn around the neck and which serve to balance the divers during their immersion, ie to compensate the variation of their weight according to the depth and the level of filling of their reserve. gas.
Ces gilets sont généralement gonflés par un inflateur oral ou grâce à une source de gaz quand le plongeur a besoin d'augmenter sa flottabilité parce qu'il a tendance à aller vers le fond et dégonflées au moyen de purges appropriées quand sa flottabilité devient trop importante et que le plongeur a tendance à remonter.
Le plongeur peut ainsi s'il le souhaite rechercher une position d'équilibre constant quelle que soit son poids variable.These vests are usually inflated by an oral inflator or a gas source when the diver needs to increase his buoyancy because he tends to go to the bottom and deflated by means of appropriate purges when his buoyancy becomes too great and that the diver has a tendency to go up.
The diver can thus if he wishes to seek a position of constant balance regardless of its variable weight.
Cependant au fur et à mesure que le plongeur consomme le gaz contenu dans sa bouteille son poids diminue et la bouteille, en se vidant, tend à le faire remonter vers la surface.
Cette tendance s'accélère tout au cours de la remontée, les gaz contenus dans la bouée se dilatant de telle sorte que le plongeur doive la purger à intervalle régulier pour qu'elle ne l'entraîne pas vers la surface à un rythme trop rapide.However, as the diver consumes the gas contained in his bottle his weight decreases and the bottle, emptying, tends to bring it up to the surface.
This tendency accelerates during the ascent, the gases in the buoy expanding so that the diver must purge it at regular intervals so that it does not drag it to the surface at too fast a rate.
Pour compenser en partie ce déséquilibre à la remontée lorsque la bouteille est vide, le plongeur doit impérativement utiliser une ceinture de plomb dont le poids est calculé de façon à ce que la bouteille vide n'attire pas le plongeur vers la surface en fin de plongée ni vers le fond de façon trop rapide au début de celle ci.
Cette ceinture de plomb doit cependant pouvoir être larguée à tout moment si la sécurité l'impose, et en particulier si le plongeur vient à manquer d'air en cours de plongée et se voit obligé de rejoindre la surface.To compensate in part for this imbalance at the lift when the bottle is empty, the diver must imperatively use a lead belt which the weight is calculated so that the empty bottle does not attract the plunger towards the surface at the end of the dive nor towards the bottom too quickly at the beginning of this one.
This lead belt must however be able to be dropped at any time if safety requires, and especially if the diver runs out of air during a dive and is forced to reach the surface.
Depuis quelques années les formes des bouées de plongée ont évolué de la forme fer à cheval portée autour du cou vers des formes enveloppantes de telle sorte que les ceintures de lestage, portée comme leur nom l'indique "à la ceinture" ne sont pas facilement largable lorsque cela est nécessaire.
Pour palier l'inconvénient né de cette évolution on a imaginé d'intégrer le système de lestage à la bouée elle-même et de supprimer la ceinture, ce qui en outre améliore le confort du plongeur. Cela a permis entre autre de rationaliser l'ensemble de l'équipement et de positionner les systèmes de lestage de manières à ce qu'ils puissent être facilement accessibles pour pouvoir être largués en cas de besoin, d'une façon simple et rapide.In recent years the shapes of diving buoys have evolved from the horseshoe shape worn around the neck to enveloping shapes so that the weighting belts, worn as their name indicates "on the belt" are not easily dropable when necessary.
To overcome the disadvantage born of this evolution was imagined to integrate the ballast system to the buoy itself and remove the belt, which further improves the comfort of the diver. This has made it possible, among other things, to rationalize all the equipment and to position the ballast systems in such a way that they can be easily accessible so that they can be dropped in case of need, in a simple and quick way.
Les systèmes existants sont généralement constitués de gaines de textile dans lesquelles sont logées les plombs de lestage. Ces gaines sont généralement introduites dans des compartiments de la bouée prévus à cet effet et maintenues en place, compte tenu de leur poids, par des superpositions de rabats dont la tenue est assurée des "bandes velcro". (cf, par exemple, le brevet SEA QUEST N° US 5 641 247 du 24 juin 1997). Plusieurs variantes plus ou moins heureuses issues de ce principe existent aujourd'hui sur le marché.Existing systems generally consist of textile sheaths in which the ballast weights are housed. These sheaths are generally introduced into compartments of the buoy provided for this purpose and held in place, given their weight, by overlapping flaps whose holding is ensured "Velcro strips". (See, for example, SEA QUEST Patent No. US 5,641,247 of June 24, 1997). Several more or less happy variants of this principle exist today on the market.
Ces systèmes comportent de nombreux inconvénients :
D'abord, ils ne sont pas pratiques dans la mesure où le positionnement de la poche à lest dans le compartiment de la bouée prévu à cet effet et sa sécurisation par la combinaison des rabats engendrent des manoeuvres compliquées tout particulièrement quand elles doivent être effectuées dans l'eau, en surface avant le début de la plongée. La manoeuvre de largage est elle aussi peut aisée dans la mesure ou la superposition de rabats et de "bandes velcro" nécessaire pour la tenue de l'ensemble implique un effort de traction important pour exécuter le largage. Plus le lestage est important, plus il implique le renforcement du système de fermeture et plus le largage devient difficile.These systems have many disadvantages:
First, they are not practical insofar as the positioning of the ballast pocket in the compartment of the buoy provided for this purpose and its securing by the combination of the flaps generate complicated maneuvers especially when they must be performed in water, on the surface before the start of the dive. The release maneuver is also easy to the extent that the superposition of flaps and "Velcro strips" necessary for holding the assembly involves a significant tensile force to perform the release. The greater the ballast, the more it involves the strengthening of the closure system and more the release becomes difficult.
Le système selon la présente invention a pour objectif de remédier à ces inconvénients.The system according to the present invention aims to overcome these disadvantages.
Il est constitué d'une gaine à lest dont au moins une des faces est renforcée par une partie suffisamment rigide et légèrement plus longue que la gaine elle même de façon à ce que le système de retenue ait un effet de levier contribuant à la maintenir en place dans la poche du gilet de compensation lui servant de logement.It consists of a ballast sheath at least one of the faces is reinforced by a sufficiently rigid and slightly longer than the sheath itself so that the restraint system has a leverage effect contributing to maintain it in place in the pocket of the compensation vest for housing.
Sur les dessins annexés, donnés à titre d'exemple non limitatif d'une forme de réalisation conforme à la présente demande :
- la figure 1 représente en perspective, vu de trois quarts avant, un gilet de compensation équipé du système de lestage selon l'invention,
- la figure 2 est un agrandissement du détail D1 de la figure 1,
- la figure 3 est une coupe horizontale de la guaine de la gaine à lest et de son dispositif de retenue
- et les figures 4 à 7 sont des coupes horizontales du dispositif de lestage inséré dans la poche du gilet de compensation, montrant différentes positions du système de retenue du dit système de lestage.
- FIG. 1 shows in perspective, seen from three quarters front, a compensation vest equipped with the weighting system according to the invention,
- FIG. 2 is an enlargement of the detail D1 of FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 is a horizontal section of the sheath of the ballast sheath and its retainer device
- and Figures 4 to 7 are horizontal sections of the weighting device inserted in the pocket of the compensation vest, showing different positions of the retaining system of said ballast system.
Le dispositif, figures 1 à 7, est constitué d'un élément de lest contenu dans une gaine 1 destinée à s'insérer dans une ou plusieurs poches 2 d'un gilet de compensation 3 (figures 1 et 2).The device, Figures 1 to 7, consists of a ballast element contained in a sheath 1 intended to be inserted into one or
La gaine 1, en matière textile ou thermoplastique ou équivalent, est de préférence de forme rectangulaire mais peut se présenter sous toute autre forme convenant à l'application. Le lest 4 sera maintenu dans la gaine par tout moyen satisfaisant, couture, rabat ou fermeture de toute sorte.The sheath 1, of textile or thermoplastic material or equivalent, is preferably of rectangular shape but may be in any other form suitable for application. The
Cette gaine 1 est renforcée longitudinalement au moins sur un coté et éventuellement sur deux côtés par une plaquette 5 suffisamment rigide pour que la gaine à lest puisse être introduite dans la poche 2 du gilet 3 prévue à cet effet et dimensionnée de telle sorte que la gaine à lest une fois en place, et quel que soit son chargement, soit sensiblement du même volume et requiert le même effort de largage.This sheath 1 is longitudinally reinforced at least on one side and possibly on two sides by a
La plaquette renfort 5 de la gaine 1 à lest sera sensiblement plus longue que la gaine elle-même du coté du sanglage de retenue de telle sorte qu'une fois celle-ci en place dans la poche 2 prévue à cet effet puis verrouillée, cette plaquette exerce un effet de levier contribuant à maintenir fermement la gaine 1 à lest dans ladite poche.The reinforcing
Le sanglage de retenue est constitué d'une bande souple 6 fixée d'un côté à la gaine 1 et, de l'autre côté, sensiblement au milieu d'une lame rigide 7 et flexible dont une extrémité est effilée pour faciliter son introduction dans le logement de la boucle de maintien 8 spécifique solidaire du gilet 3.The retaining strap consists of a
La lame rigide 7 comportera à l'extrémité opposée à la partie effilée une poignée 9 ou une forme permettant une prise facile. La boucle de maintien 8 est équipée d'un levier articulé 10 agencé pour assurer, en position fermée (figure 5), le blocage de la lame rigide 7 grâce à un crantage 11 prévu sur cette dernière, et s'ouvrir en libérant la gaine 1 lorsque l'on exerce une traction latérale T sur la poignée 9, de façon à ce que le plongeur puisse l'actionner d'une seule main par action sur la poignée consistant en un mouvement de rotation externe puis de traction vers l'avant, ces deux mouvements combinés permettant d'éviter un largage intempestif occasionné par une traction sur la poignée par erreur (figures 6 et 7).The
Le positionnement des divers éléments constitutifs donne à l'objet de l'invention un maximum d'effets utiles qui n'avaient pas été, à ce jour, obtenus par des dispositifs similaires.The positioning of the various constituent elements gives the object of the invention a maximum of useful effects that had not been obtained so far by similar devices.
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- Ballast system for diving jackets, intended for use by both amateur and professional divers using compensation jackets to provide regulating buoyancy,
characterised in that ballast (4) is contained in a sheath (1) designed to fit into one or more pockets (2) of a compensation jacket (3), at least one of the sides of the aforesaid sheath being reinforced by a sufficiently rigid plate (5) slightly longer than the sheath itself so that the system for retaining this sheath has a lever action which helps to maintain it in place in pocket (2) of the compensation jacket, the aforementioned retaining system consisting of flexible strap (6) fixed on one side at sheath (1) and, on the other side, roughly in the middle, a rigid and flexible blade (7) with a tapered end so that it can be easily inserted into the housing of a specific retaining buckle (8) joined to compensation jacket (3). - Ballast system according to claim 1, characterised in that blade (7) has at the end opposite the tapered part a handle (9) of a form which is easy to grasp.
- Ballast system according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that the retaining buckle (8) is equipped with an articulated lever (10) arranged to ensure blocking of blade (7) in the closed position thanks to notching (11) provided on the latter.
- Ballast system according to claim 3, characterised in that articulated lever (10) is arranged so as to open by releasing sheath (1) when side traction (T) is applied on handle (9) of blade (7).
- Ballast system according to any of claims 3 and 4, characterised in that blade (7) and articulated lever (10) are arranged so as only allow release of sheath (1) containing ballast (4) by applying an external rotational movement followed by a forward traction movement, so as to avoid inadvertent release caused by inadvertent application of traction on handle (9).
- Ballast system according to any of the preceding claims, characterised in that sheath (1) and plate (5) are dimensioned so that the system requires application of a releasing force separately from the weight of the ballast contained in the aforementioned sheath.
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| FR0311481A FR2860492B1 (en) | 2003-10-01 | 2003-10-01 | LESTAGE SYSTEM FOR UNDERWATER DIVING VESTS |
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