Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water skimming or walking device – Water ski
Patent
1988-12-09
1991-01-01
Layno, Benjamin
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water skimming or walking device
Water ski
280818, 434253, A63B 6918, A63C 1500
Patent
active
049814559
ABSTRACT:
As an aid for a novice skier, a close fitting fabric glove confines the forward portion of a pair of water-skis. The glove both prevents excessive lateral separation of the skis and maintains a desirable minimum separation--both features greatly assisting a novice, for example, in "getting up" from a deep water start and in his stability when waterborne. The greater planing area of the glove, compared with the ski portions it covers, and its buoyancy (from air entrapment), both help the skier to "get up" more quickly. Flexibility of the fabric of the glove permits substantially normal relative tipping and pitching of the skis for control purposes. The glove is secured to the skis by snap fasteners.
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Ffitch Bruce J.
Layno Benjamin
Passaniti Sebastiano
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