Aeronautics and astronautics – Kites
Patent
1999-05-11
2000-10-24
Eldred, J. Woodrow
Aeronautics and astronautics
Kites
244153A, 446 34, B64C 3106
Patent
active
061353884
ABSTRACT:
A kite that is self-erecting to a flying configuration having a forward opening with control line attached to a spool, a rearward opening with kite fabric stretched to form a surface between the openings, the forward opening urged from the rearward opening by flexible member support spars, the spars sized longer than the distance between the openings and aligned under tension between the openings to the extent permitted by the stretched fabric. The kite is collapsed into a generally flat storage configuration, by rotating one opening with respect to the other opening past a point of no return, the flexible member tension spars configuring themselves to a more relaxed, unaligned orientation. The two openings may be thus placed together into a storage configuration without disassembly and conveniently confined within side walls of the line spool, where one of the walls may be approximately the size of an opening to protect the kite. The kite is converted back to the flying configuration by twisting one opening with respect to the other in the opposite direction past the point of no return, the twisting redirecting and aligning the flexible member tension spars returning the kite into the flying configuration, the openings separating from each other by the coordinated and aligned urging of the support spars under tension.
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Eldred J. Woodrow
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