Acceleration protective apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING A SUBJECT AGAINST THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF ACCELERATION COMPRISING, A PNEUMATICALLY INFLATABLE JACKET SECTION, A PNEUMATICALLY INFLATATABLE TROUSERS SECTION, SAID JACKET AND TROUSERS SECTIONS EACH BEING CONSTRUCTED OF AN INNER SUBSTANTIALLY PLIABLE MEMBER ADAPTED TO CONFORM IN CONTIGUOUS RELATION WITH THE BODY CONTOUR OF SAID SUBJECT AND JOINED TO AN OUTER RELATIVELY FLEXIBLE MEMBER HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNYIELDING CHARACTERISTIC, A PRESSURIZED SOURCE OF PNEUMATIC FLUID, MEANS COUPLED WITH SAID PRESSURIZED SOURCE OF PNEUMATIC FLUID AND SAID TROUSERS SECTION OPERABLE TO SUPPLY A CONSTANT FLUID PRESSURE TO THE TROUSERS SECTION PROPORTIONAL TO AN ACCELERATIVE LEVEL, AND MEANS COUPLED WITH SAID PRESSURIZED SOURCE OF PNEUMATIC FLUID AND SAID JACKET SECTION FOR OPERABLY ADMITTING TO THE JACKET SECTION A QUANTITY OF SAID PNEUMATIC FLUID FOR A TIME INTERVAL SOLELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE ACCELERATION AND THEREUPON OPERABLE TO CLOSE SAID JACKET SECTION TO THE ENTRANCE OF ADDITIONAL FLUID, WHEREBY THE FLUID PRESSURE WITHIN THE JACKET SECTION VARIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESPIRATION OF THE SUBJECT.