Actuating devices for aerial survival kits

Claim 1

IN AN AERIAL SURVIVAL KIT FOR FLIGHT PERSONNEL, A RIGID CASE, AN INFLATABLE RAFT PACKED IN THE RIGID CASE, A RIGID LID ON THE CASE, COACTING LOCKING MEANS ON THE CASE AND ON THE LID FOR LOCKING THE LID TO SAID CASE, MANIPULATING MEANS ON THE CASE FOR RELEASING SAID LOCKING MEANS AT WILL, A CONTAINER FOR THE INFLATING MEDIUM IN THE CASE, VALVE MEANS TO CONTROL COMMUNICATION FOR SAID CONTAINER TO SAID RAFT, MEANS TO CONNECT SAID MANIPULATING MEANS TO SAID VALVE MEANS TO ACTUATE SAID VALVE MEANS WHEN SAID LOCKING MEANS ARE RELEASED, A SUSPENSION LANYARD EXTENDED THROUGH SAID LID AND CONNECTED TO SAID RAFT SO AS TO SUSPEND SAID RAFT SPACED FROM SAID LID, A SUSPENSION LANYARD CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID RAFT AND SAID CASE TO SUSPEND SAID CASE SPACED BELOW SAID RAFT WHEN SAID LOCKING MEANS ARE RELEASED, AND STRAP CONNECTING MEANS CONNECTING SAID FIRST MENTIONED LANYARD TO HANGING STRAPS ON SAID PERSONNEL SO THAT WHEN SAID LOCKING MEANS ARE RELEASED SAID FIRST MENTIONED LANYARD HANGS FROM SAID STRAPS AND SUSPENDS SAID RAFT SPACED FROM SAID PERSONNEL AND SAID RAFT IS SUSPENDED FREE OF SAID CASE; SAID INFLATING MEDIUM CONTAINER BEIGN SECURED TO AND FREED WITH SAID RAFT.