Patent ID: 7302739

Claim:
A device for fastening emergency equipment to at least one of a ship's deck and a structure on a ship's deck, comprising: a shearing link including a first fastening facility and a second fastening facility for second and third external fasteners; a third fastening facility for a first external fastener, wherein the first and the second fastening facilities are constituted by at least one opening in the shearing link; and a connector, extending around said first and said second fastening facilities, said connector thereby also mutually connecting said second and said third external fasteners which utilize said first and said second fastening facilities, wherein the connector is arranged with a tensile strength that allows breaking of the connector once its tensile strength has been exceeded by strain caused by the second and third external fasteners in the absence of the first external fastener; and a sleeve, said sleeve comprising an opening, with the sleeve being attached to the device in operation in such a manner that the opening in the sleeve at least in part coincides with the first fastening facility, wherein the sleeve is arranged to be attached to the device via snap-attaching.