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Return to 1926 in timeline 1926 Bernhard Dräger universal Joint Approximately three years before Peress introduced the oil-filled hinge in 1929, Bernhard Dräger patented a cardan-type joint that formed a seal with two diaphragms. It is doubtful whether the joint...
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Return to 1922 in timeline 1922 Walter Carlitscheck and Otto Zander Germany Carlitscheck and Zander designed a system whereby the exhaled air of the diver could be brought outside the suit through an ejector system. This eliminated the return hose that had to be run...
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Return to 1926 in timeline 1926 Hermann Ahrens from Germany Once again, the concept emerges of cladding a metal suit with a rubber seal. Ahrens sees the problem that the rubber will be pressed between the hinge points with great force by the water pressure. Ahrens...
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Return to 1923 in timeline 1923 Octave Quenault and Gabriel Roux, France Strangely enough, the Frenchmen Octave Quenault and Gabriel Rouxin 1923 fell back on an old concept. They designed a metal diving suit over which a rubber suit had to be put on. The idea of...
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Return to 1918 in timeline 1918 William John Mellersh-Jackson for the Leavitt company In 1918 William John Mellersh-Jackson filed a patent application working at Haseltine Lake & Co in London for the Leavitt Company USA for a breathing system to be used in...
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Return to 1924 in timeline 1924 Maxwell McGuinness and Herbert Tasman Davies Whether the fantasies of Davies and Mc Guinness ever came to reality is doubtful. Their design of a pneumatically operated atmospheric diving suit does not seem very realistic. In fact, they...
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Return to 1904 in timeline 1904 Jaques Franc et Eugene Galaup The diving suit, the object of the invention, is an apparatus designed to protect divers against the pressure of the water mass when they descend to great depths. In ordinary diving suits, the air,...
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Return to 1928 in timeline 1928 Ernest Reginald Clifford from Victoria Australia E.R. Clifford patented a divers’ dress comprises an inner and outer rigid corselet and an inner and outer rigid helmet, the space between forming an outer high pressure zone to...
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Return to 1895 in timeline John MacLeod diver from Glascow John MacLeod diver from Glascow patented his invention in 1895. His invention consists of a metal diving suit in which an upper part fits over the shoulders and on which the helmet is screwed. The chest piece...
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Return to 1929 in timeline Karl Hipssich 1929 The suit by Karl Hipssich clearly shows great flexibility at the time the patent drawing was made. As far as we know, the suit did not become a great success, which is highly understandable with today’s knowledge....
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Return to 1921 in timeline Joseph Salim Peress Not many inventors have had as much influence on the development of the atmospheric diving suit as Joseph Salim Peress. As early as 1918, after having spent his youth in the Middle East, he began to dream about an...
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Return to 1921 in timeline 1921 Arthur Phelps Marr flexible Arm This invention relates to an improved non-collapsible flexible joint for diving armor and has for its principal object to provide a joint which is so designed as to permit the bending of a limb and yet...
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Return to 1897 in timeline 1897 Henry H. Gorter first ball joint used in ADS As early as 1897, Henry Gorter patented the first ball and socket joint, which was later used in many atmospheric diving suits. Around 1922 a liquid seal was added to this joint which made...
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Return to 1921 in timeline 1921 Josef Kamieniecki USSR/USA Chicago Little can be found about Josef Kamieniecki’s patent. The Russian immigrant who invented in Chicago and also patented in the USA describes a suit using a lot of fantasy. It is therefore doubtful...
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Return to 1912 in timeline 1912 Italian Leone Durand and Melchiorre Bembina from Palermo The dress proposed in 1912 by Leone Durand and Melchiorre Bembina is of a curious type, designed to be towed along the bottom, and to this end is fitted with four spherical oaken...
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Return to 1920 in timeline Frank William Walters Canada & New Zealand Frank W. Walters, who first lived in New Zealand and patented another invention in 1917 now patented a Submarine Armor in Canada. What he claim is: A submarine Armor having relatively movable...
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Return to 1930 in timeline 1930 Vivian Roy McBride form Australia The invention of the Australian McBride concerns an injector type air pump with which the inventor can increase the low pressure of the exhaled air in the inner suit of a diver. This allows the exhaled...
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Return to 1922 in timeline 1922 Victor Armijo Campos New York Victor Armijo Campos of New York, a Mexican living in the USA patented an atmospheric diving suit with oil-filled rotary joints which were not pressure-compensated. The suit was reportedly taken to a depth...
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Return to 1921 in timeline Henry D. Deam 1921 USA Henry D. Deam USA 1921 patent 1.377.404 Be it known that I, HENRY D. DEAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Benton Harbor, in the county of Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and...
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Helium Helium is an important gas for diving because it enables deep diving. It is safer than hydrogen because it is a noble gas and has a weight of 0.17 kg/m3.As the previous section on oxygen and nitrogen showed, these gases pose a problem for the diver at depth....
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1924 Hagenuk Audos MR 3 oxygen rebreather In 1924, Hagenuk worked closely with the manufacturer AUER. The name Auer came from the Deutsche Gasglühlicht-Auer-Gesellschaft mbh Berlin, or DGAG. Audos devices had a long history which is described on this page. Read...
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Inhabad GMBH from Berlin Naszogen apparatus The name Naszogen was chosen by the company INHABAD GmbH from Berlin around 1930. Inhabad introduced a process that did not use gaseous oxygen in cylinders, but a chemical oxygen generating preparation. This process and the...
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Alkali Superoxyde breathing apparatus Around 1904, Prof. Dr. Max Bamberger Friedrich Böck and Friedrich Wantz patented a method of chemically converting exhaled air into clean reusable breathing air. The idea was to be able to use this substance in breathing apparatus...
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Return to 1917 in timeline Rudi de Graff 1917 Little information can be found about Rudi de Graff. The American Russian filed a patent in 1917 which was granted in 1921. Below is written down what he claims in his patent. Rudi de Graff USSR Diving Armor 1917 1. In a...
