DE463C - Swimming teaching apparatus - Google Patents

Description

1877.

Class 77.

RICHARD HENSHAW in BERLIN. Swimming teaching apparatus.

Patented in the German Empire on August 12, 1877.

As is well known, the current swimming teaching method prevents many> to learn this art so useful and in some cases so necessary.

A single visit to the royal swimming pool is enough to provide evidence that that most recruits learn to swim with great reluctance First, they are in constant fear that the swimming instructor will let go of the leash, which will cause him to Recruit must go into hiding immediately. By doing this he loses all confidence and therefore he becomes never learn to swim properly.

Second: When the beginner from the bridge or held off the board, it is sometimes under the board or bridge, and consequently outside the teacher's field.

Third: Everyone is a bit nervous when they try to swim for the first time, and if there are several at the same time Time to get into the water, they usually stick to each other, which only serves the student to make you even more nervous.

The apparatus shown was constructed according to a simple and trustworthy method consists of a roller with a rotatable ring, which is on a Wire or Moving hemp rope.

Fig. Ι is a side view of the roller and the ring.
Figure 2 is an end view of the same.

Fig. 3 shows the manner in which the apparatus is used.

The roller B shown in Figures 1 and 2 runs on the rope designated A; A strong pin C is attached to the lowermost end of the roller housing and is either cast directly onto the housing or connected to it by suitable fastening.

The rotatable ring D.

This rotatable ring D is held on the pin C by the forged head E of the pin C or by a specially screwed or fixed head.

The ring D is used to receive the leash attached to the student's belt.

F is a small ring that is attached to the reel housing and is used to hold line G.

If the apparatus is to be used, the roller B is placed on the rope A ' , after which the rope is tensioned.

The line G is attached to the ring F.

This line is used to retract the pulley if the student does not swim back by himself can.

First of all, the student puts on his swim belt, to which a rope is attached.

As soon as the student has stepped into the water, this rope is attached to the ring D in such a way that the student assumes his correct position in the water.

As soon as the pupil begins to swim, the line H is loosened in such a way that he has to keep himself in the water, but can be withdrawn immediately in the event of fatigue, seizures, etc.; it is even advisable that the apparatus should be used even with the finished swimmer, so that it can be withdrawn immediately in case of indisposition.

■ The apparatus is unpredictable when it comes to learning to swim at greater distances Advantage, e.g. B. when swimming over a river, etc., attach a rope to one Embankment to the other.

If the swimmer cannot cover the whole distance at first, he can mediate rest on the support loaned to him by the apparatus, or as already mentioned, if he should have a seizure, etc., be withdrawn immediately.

1 sheet of drawings.