Patent ID: 7373895

Claim:
An inflatable boat with at least two inflatable chambers, including a pressurized gas distributor device comprising: an enclosure closed in leaktight manner, said enclosure possessing at least one first orifice and at least two second orifices connected respectively to said chambers; at least two closure valves associated respectively with the at least two second orifices, said valves being normally urged into a position for closing the respective second orifices; and drive means suitable for causing all of the closure valves to be driven simultaneously, selectively in the opening direction or in the closing direction; whereby it is possible to cause all of the inflatable chambers to be inflated or deflated simultaneously, wherein the second orifices are situated in a common wall of the enclosure, wherein all of the valves possess respective valve stems extending substantially parallel to one another with the free ends of the stems being substantially coplanar, and wherein the valve drive means comprise: a plate for driving the valve stems and disposed inside said enclosure substantially parallel to the plane of the ends of the stems; and drive means secured to said plate to move it substantially parallel to the direction in which the valve stems extend between two functional positions, namely a raised position in which the valve stems are raised under drive from resilient means so that the valves are in the closed position, closing the respective second orifices, and a lowered position in which the plate pushes back simultaneously against all of the valve stems against the resilient means so that the valves are in a position opening the respective second orifices.