Interlocking floatation device

摘要

An apparatus for floatation of one or more persons on water includes a floatation device. The floatation device is sized for a single person and can be interlocked (i.e., secured) to additional floatation devices. Each individual floatation device is preferably made from an air-filled vinyl mattress or from foam. Each floatation device preferably includes at least one protrusion and at least one recess; however any desired combination of protrusions and recesses may be included. The protrusion of one individual floatation device interlocks within a recess of a second individual floatation device. A pair of retaining clips helps maintain each of the protrusions within the recesses. Any desired number of the individual floatation devices may be secured together to provide a larger overall floatation device for use by multiple persons while still providing each person their own personal floatation device.

主权项

1. An interlocking floatation device, comprising:
(a) a substantially planar structure having a periphery and an upper, continuous surface, but for at least one connecting recess therein at the periphery of said structure, and being able to float on or proximate a surface of a body of water, wherein a plane of said substantially planar structure aligns with said surface, and wherein said periphery of said structure includes at least three sides, and wherein said at least three sides are each connected at opposite ends, thereof, to any of said at least three sides, and wherein said periphery fully encloses said structure; (b) at least one protrusion disposed on said plane and which extends from said structure on at least two of said at least three sides; (c) at least one connecting recess disposed on said plane and extending from the periphery of said structure on at least two of said at least three sides, wherein any of said protrusions of a first of said interlocking floatation devices is able to be disposed in any of said connecting recesses of a second of said interlocking floatation devices; and (d) means for securing said first interlocking floatation device proximate said second interlocking floatation device on either of said at least two of said three sides; wherein said means for securing includes a first half of a retaining clip disposed proximate said protrusion of said first of said interlocking floatation devices and a second half of a retaining clip disposed proximate said recess of said second of said interlocking floatation devices, wherein said first half of said retaining clip is able to engage with said second half of said retaining clip sufficient to secure said first of said interlocking floatation devices proximate said second of said interlocking floatation devices, and wherein said first half of said retaining clip includes a flexible attachment strap that is secured at a first end, thereof, to said first half of said retaining clip, and wherein a second end of said attachment strap is secured to said first of said interlocking floatation devices.