Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Swimming aid to increase stroke efficiency – Hand attached – held – or worn
Patent
1992-07-29
1994-02-22
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Swimming aid to increase stroke efficiency
Hand attached, held, or worn
441 58, A63B 3100
Patent
active
052882543
ABSTRACT:
A swimmer's hand paddle comprised of a planar member having a perpendicularly depending fin is disclosed. The paddle's planar member is bilaterally symmetrical and generally triangular. It has a textured upper surface, a rounded forward apex, a pair of divergent opposing side edges and an inwardly-curved rearward edge. A rearward projection is defined on each side of the planar member between the outer end of the rearward edge and the rearward end of the adjacent side edge. The fin is generally triangular and depends from the planar member's lower surface. Its narrower end is disposed adjacent the planar member's forward apex and its wider end is disposed adjacent the planar member's rearward edge. Opposing ends of a length of resilient tubing pass through a pair of adjacent apertures in planar member, thereby forming a loop which projects above the plane of the upper surface and is adapted to receive and bind a swimmer's middle finger to the planar member.
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Advertising Order Form--Date and Origin Unknown.
Swimming World; Sep., 1991; p. 44.
Triathlete; Jun., 1992; pp. 89, 90 and 92.
Swimming World; May, 1992; pp. 32 and 33.
Swimming World; Nov., 1991; p. 53.
Gerber Joseph E.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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