Lifesaving beach bag for water rescue

摘要

A lightweight, rugged and easy-to-carry beach bag is well suited to serve a primary function as a tote for containing and transporting items useful during an excursion to a beach or other waterside location—items such as towels, swimwear, swimgear, sunscreen, snacks, drinks, reading material and the like. Should an emergency arise necessitating a rescue of a person in peril of drowning, the bag's contents are jettisoned, enabling a quick collapse of the bag as a chain of hinged flotation elements that form an upstanding sidewall of the bag folds in an orderly manner so the bag forms a compact, substantially flat flotation device well suited to serve a secondary function of keeping afloat the person in peril who forcefully grasps the flotation device so a rescuer can tow the person toward shore by pulling on a lengthy tether securely connected to the flotation device.

主权项

1. A lifesaving beach bag transformable from a normally expanded configuration of the beach bag at a time after a substantially unobstructed interior chamber of the beach bag has been emptied of contents, to form a compact, substantially flat flotation device that can easily be grasped by a person in peril of drowning, with the beach bag when in the normally expanded configuration having an upstanding sidewall of substantially uniform height defined by an endless chain of substantially rectangular, vertically extending, stiff, flotation elements that perimetrically surrounds the substantially unobstructed interior chamber, and with adjacent ones of the flotation elements being pivotally coupled by hinged connections that permit selected ones of the flat flotation elements to move into a closely overly relationship one with another that substantially closes the interior chamber as the overlying flotation panels cooperate to form the compact, substantially flat flotation device.