Patent Application
20160176483
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a water craft, particularly to one able to offer fast rescue.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Recently, water leisure and recreation activities have been flourishing and consequently, various types of water crafts matching their characteristics and functions have developed different types for different uses. But along with increase of water leisure and recreation activities, opportunities of water rescue needed also increase greatly. To take a sweeping look, the water rescue crafts commonly seen on the market are mainly inflatable rubber boats. Although inflatable rubber boats can carry many persons for executing rescue mission, yet inflatable rubber boats are slow in speed and poor in wave resistance and hence incompetent to carry out emergent and fast rescue mission and thus may miss the opportunity of “golden window” for survivors. On the other hand, although water scooters are good in maneuverability, easy in operation, small in size and able to move quickly on water surface, yet water scooters are unable to carry many persons and incompetent to carry out rescue mission. In view of the situations mentioned above, the inventor of this invention has been devoted to doing research for improving water rescue crafts and hence devises this invention.
The objective of this invention is to offer a water craft able to offer fast rescue, which has high maneuverability and is able to move quickly to seize the opportunity of “golden window” for survivors and also able to carry many persons, really attaining the objective of quickly executing water rescue mission.
The water craft able to offer fast rescue in the present invention includes a water craft provided with at least one driving member, a pressurization pump and a high pressure air reservoir. The pressurization pump is connected with the high pressure air reservoir so that air can be pressurized to get into the high pressure air reservoir and stored therein by the pressurization pump. The water craft is further formed with a concealed storage space received therein with an uninflated rescue device. The rescue device communicates with the high pressure air reservoir so that the rescue device can be inflated by high pressure gas stored in the high pressure air reservoir. The rescue device is further provided with a deflation member for deflating the rescue device and, after deflated, the rescue device is received in the concealed storage space.
Thus, when the rescue device is not yet inflated, the rescue device can be received in the concealed storage space to let the water craft has good maneuverability and able to move quickly for seizing the opportunity of “golden window” for survivors. When inflated, the rescue device can be quickly ejected out of the concealed storage space to form a rescue device for carrying many persons, thus attaining an objective of quickly carrying out water rescue mission.
This invention will be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A preferred embodiment of a water craft able to offer fast rescue in the present invention, as shown in
The water craft 10 has a left side and a right side respectively provided with a hydrofoil 11 stretching far away from the water craft 10 for elevating moving speed in water of the water craft 10. In this invention, the hydrofoils 11 are stretched toward the underside and the outer side of the water craft 10 and have their ends respectively installed with a driving member 12, which is a jet engine, and further have their topsides respectively provided with a ladder frame 13 having one end fixed at a peripheral side of the water craft 10 and another end positioned at the end of the hydrofoil 11. In addition, the water craft 10 is formed with a concealed storage space 14 at a rear lower side and positioned below the water line of the water craft 10. The concealed storage space 14 has a rear side bored with an opening 141 by which the concealed storage space communicates with the outside. Moreover, the concealed storage space 14 of the water craft 10 is provided with at least one air inflation device 15 that consists of a pressurization Pump 151 and a high pressure air reservoir 152, with the pressurization Pump 151 connected with the high pressure air reservoir 152 so that air can be pressurized to get into the high pressure air reservoir 152 and stored therein by the pressurization pump 151.
The rescue device 20 is received in the concealed storage space 14 when the rescue device 20 is not yet inflated. The rescue device 20 communicates with the high pressure air reservoir 152 so that the rescue device 20 can be inflated with high pressure gas stored in the high pressure air reservoir 152. The rescue device 20 is further disposed with a deflation member 21 for the rescue device 20 to carry out deflation, and after being deflated, the rescue device 20 is received in the concealed storage space 14 anew, in this invention, the rescue device 20 being an inflatable rubber boat. Before inflated, the rescue device can be entirely stored in the concealed storage space 14, and when rescue device 20 is being inflated, the rescue device 20 will be quickly ejected out of the concealed storage space 14 through the opening 141 to make up the rescue device at the rear side of the water craft 10 for carrying many persons.
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A first special feature of this invention is that the water craft able to offer fast rescue has two opposite rear sides respectively disposed with the ladder frame 13 at the location of the hydrofoil 11 for facilitating personnel to get on and get off the rescue device 20 and the water craft 10.
A second special feature of this invention is that the water craft able to offer fast rescue uses jet engines as power sources of the driving members 12, thus able to prevent exposed oars of a conventional outboard engine from injuring people around and also advantageous to carry out rescue mission. Furthermore, the two driving members 12 are respectively mounted at the left side and the right side of the water craft 10 via the two hydrofoils 11 so as to keep away from the rescue device 20 at the rear side of the water craft 10 for avoiding the rescue device 20 being disturbed by water current and causing jolt, able to elevate stability and the degree of stability of the water craft able to offer fast rescue.
The water craft able to offer fast rescue of this invention has all the advantages of a nimble and handy water scooter, of a quick and energy-saving hydrofoil craft and of a fast inflatable rubber boat with space resilience. Therefore, the water craft able to offer fast rescue of this invention has become a new generation of fast rescue water crafts, not only having good mobility and able to move quickly for seizing the opportunity of “golden window” for survivors, but also able to make up a rescue device for carrying many persons if necessary, thus attaining an objective of quickly carrying out water rescue mission.
To sum up, this invention has the following advantages and efficacies:
1. The water craft able to offer fast rescue of this invention has good maneuverability and can move quickly for seizing the opportunity of “golden window” to carry out rescue mission when the rescue device is not yet inflated and received in the concealed storage space.
2. If necessary, in the process of executing rescue mission, the rescue device can be quickly inflated to let the rescue device rapidly ejected out of the concealed storage space to make up a rescue device for carrying many persons thereon, thus advantageous to carry out rescue work and able to attain an objective of quickly executing water rescue mission.
While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been described above, it will be recognized and understood that various modifications may be made therein and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications that may fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
