Patent ID: 7255621

Claim:
A personal flotation device comprising a buoyant main flotation member fastenable to a wearer and including a rear flotation portion adapted to overlay an upper region of the wearer's back and a front flotation portion adapted to overlay an upper region of the wearer's chest, said rear flotation portion and said front flotation portion respectively extending a first and a second distance away from a transversely extending top edge of the personal flotation device intermediately disposed between said front and rear flotation portions and adapted to overlay shoulders of the wearer, the front flotation portion including a pair of flotation elements which are separated by a frontal opening extending said second distance of said front flotation portion and which communicates with a neck receiving opening defined along said transversely extending top edge, said rear flotation portion having a transversal width greater than that of said front flotation portion, said transversal width increasing from a remote end of said front flotation portion to an opposed remote end of said rear flotation portion.