Aeronautics and astronautics – Kites – Accessories
Patent
1976-11-26
1977-12-27
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Kites
Accessories
57 90, 242 96, 57 1R, B64C 3106
Patent
active
040650804
ABSTRACT:
A kite reel system for use with a kite having plural lengths of line attached thereto includes a shaft rotatably journaled within a handle and having a reel mounted on one end thereof and a hand operated crank coupled to the other end thereof. The kite is reeled in from a flying condition in controlled fashion by securing a ring attached to the lengths of line within a mating notch in the shaft and operating the crank to rotate the shaft and thereby twist the lengths of line around each other. The twisted lengths of line are periodically fed through a notch in the edge of the reel for winding onto the reel, then back out of the reel notch and into the ring notch as an untwisted portion thereof is encountered. The twisting and reeling procedure is repeated until the kite has been reeled in. Launching of the kite involves turning of the crank to unwind the twisted lengths of line from the reel as the kite ascends until the lengths of line are unwound from the reel, following which the ring is placed within the mating notch and the hand crank is operated to continue rotation of the shaft until the lengths of line are completely untwisted from one another.
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