Patent ID: 6073287
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: A61G,B63C

Abstract:
A rescue device for use in traffic accidents or in accidents at sea, comprising:an elongated sheet structure on which an injured person is placed, a number of tubular members disposed around the sheet structure and functioning to reinforce or brace the rescue device, and a number of carrying means disposed on the sheet structure to enable the rescue device to be carried the sheet structure comprises a first stable sheet intended to brace the sheet structure, a thermally insulating second sheet having closed pores and disposed adjacent the first sheet and a substantially smooth third sheet disposed adjacent to the second sheet and opposite the first sheet, wherein the third sheet is the sheet on which the injured person is placed, the sheet structure being a unit comprising a first sheet member and two second sheet members having been produced by bending the sheet structure along two longitudinally extending lines and each of which being disposed on a respective side of and along the longitudinally extending sides of the first sheet member, the second sheet members defining an angle (.alpha.) with the first sheet member, and the second sheet being slit alone the two longitudinally extending lines.