Device to protect an occupant against bodily injury during emergency escape from aircraft

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH AN AIRCRAFT CARRIED EJECTION SEAT, A PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR THE OCCUPANT OF THE SEAT BY WHICH HIS LIMBS ARE DISPOSED, DURING SEAT EJECTION, IN PREDETERMINED POSITIONS FAVORABLE FOR EJECTION ESCAPE, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING: A HARNESS ADAPTED TO BE WORN ON THE OCCUPANT''S TORSO; A PLURALITY OF FASTENING ELEMENTS, ONE ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO EACH OF THE OCCUPANT''S LIMBS TO BE POSITIONED DURING EJECTION; A TENSION LINE FOR EACH FASTENING ELEMENT, EACH TENSION LINE BEING CONNECTED AT ONE END TO ITS FASTENING ELEMENT; GUIDE MEMBERS NONRELEASABLY SECURED ON THE HARNESS, THROUGH WHICH SAID TENSION LINES ARE TRAINED; A COMMON TERMINAL TO WHICH THE OTHER ENDS OF ALL OF SAID TENSION LINES ARE SECURED; AND RESILIENTLY YIELDABLE SHOCK ABSORBING MEANS CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID COMMON TERMINAL AND A NON-EJECTABLE PART IN THE AIRCRAFT IN WHICH THE EJECTION SEAT IS CARRIED, THROUGH WHICH SAID TERMINAL IS HELD TO TENSION THE LINES UPON EJECTING MOTION OF THE SEAT RELATIVE TO THE AIRCRAFT IN WHICH IT IS CARRIED, BUT BY WHICH THE TENSIONING FORCES IMPARTED TO THE TERMINAL ARE CUSHIONED SO THAT IT DOES NOT IMPART ABRUPT MOTION TO THE FASTENING ELEMENT.