Patent ID: 6435371
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: B63C

Abstract:
An inflation device for an inflatable article, said inflation device including:a housing adapted to hold a container of pressurised fluid; a displacement mum including a piercing means displaceable so as to penetrate a container held by the, housing and allow the release of said pressurised fluid; actuation means having engaging co-operating elements which engage to retain the displacement means in an unactuated configuration, the actuation mews releasing the displacement means both through the presence of water and by manual operation, said co-operating elements being substantially, readily arranged, one of the co-operating elements is capable of movement in a substantially radially outward direction, said actuation means being operable to prevent that co-operating element's movement, and one of the co-operating elements is capable of movement in a substantially radially inward direction, said actuation means being operable to prevent that co-operating element's movement, each co-operating element being the operable and movable separately to and independently of the other.