GB2304269A - Wet suit including fins along the limbs - Google Patents

Wet suit including fins along the limbs Download PDF

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GB2304269A
GB2304269A GB9516645A GB9516645A GB2304269A GB 2304269 A GB2304269 A GB 2304269A GB 9516645 A GB9516645 A GB 9516645A GB 9516645 A GB9516645 A GB 9516645A GB 2304269 A GB2304269 A GB 2304269A
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Rodney Stephen Clark
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B31/00—Swimming aids
    • A63B31/08—Swim fins, flippers or other swimming aids held by, or attachable to, the hands, arms, feet or legs
    • A63B31/14—Swim fins, flippers or other swimming aids held by, or attachable to, the hands, arms, feet or legs with valve-flaps
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
    • A41D13/012—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches for aquatic activities, e.g. with buoyancy aids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C11/00—Equipment for dwelling or working underwater; Means for searching for underwater objects
    • B63C11/02—Divers' equipment
    • B63C11/04—Resilient suits
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D2400/00—Functions or special features of garments
    • A41D2400/24—Reducing drag or turbulence in air or water

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Abstract

A wet suit includes fins either strapped on or integral with the suit, formed in such a manner that they lie along the limbs until the limb is moved backwards, whereupon the fin opens out to provide propulsion.

Description

f HE DOLPHIN WET SUIT.
Technical Fieid.
The Dolphin Wet Suit is designed to effect maximum ad natural all round unhindered movement of the human body in an aquatic environment.
Background. Presently under water divers utilise flippers attached to their feet for propulsion. This limits / both the power and the capacity to move about the bodies center of gravity and is also a hindrance to stability with static work. (e.g. Undersea work on oil rigs.) The Dolphin Wet Suit provides fins along the limbs, leaving the feet free whilst allowing the bodies natural movement to harmonize with the fluid environment.

Claims (7)

  1. Essential Technical Features.
    The invention has two possibilities in that the fins can either strapped on, or the fins ae integral to the wet suit having a built in 'memory' to lay along the limbs, only opening to function with the body.
    These features are explained diagrammatically with the attached illustrations.
    Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows CLAIMS 1. The Dolphin Wet Suit is especially adapted to accommodate the human body to an aquatic environment
  2. 2 For this purpose the fins are built into the wall of the suit lateral to the limbs.
  3. 3 This allows the wearer to put on a 'skin' which immediately metamorphosis's them from the terrestrial to the aquatic mode.
  4. 4 The positioning along with the built in memory of the fins is in harmony with the normal mode of human motion on land.
  5. 5 There is no cumbersome hindrance to manoeuvrability.
  6. 6 The acting area of fin surface is over 2100 sq cms, considerably more than existing swimming fins.
  7. 7 All these factors cater for stability in minuscule movement as well as greater overall expansive mobility. The aqua naught can stand walk or swim The hands and feet are free Stability in the hazardous depths for example, under oil rigs, is ensured.
GB9516645A 1995-08-14 1995-08-14 The flippered wet suit Expired - Fee Related GB2304269B (en)

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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2009015686A1 (en) * 2007-07-27 2009-02-05 Arena Distribution S.A. Swim suit, particularly for competition swimming
FR2976160A1 (en) * 2011-06-10 2012-12-14 Yves Coffournic Shoe e.g. sports shoe, has rod supporting surface of articulated mobile flap according to height of shoe for facilitating advancement of user in water when user performs pedaling by producing push exerted backwards on quasi horizontal axis

Citations (5)

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US1824712A (en) * 1931-02-28 1931-09-22 Floyd Soderstrom Oar
GB640355A (en) * 1946-11-28 1950-07-19 John Francis Reynolds Improvements in or relating to swimming appliances
GB1041324A (en) * 1964-01-28 1966-09-07 Lothaire Pierre Jaques Dombrec Device for facilitating swimming
US3827095A (en) * 1973-03-12 1974-08-06 A Feather Swim fin
WO1995003095A1 (en) * 1993-07-20 1995-02-02 Ross, Barry, Raymond Swimming/paddling aid

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1824712A (en) * 1931-02-28 1931-09-22 Floyd Soderstrom Oar
GB640355A (en) * 1946-11-28 1950-07-19 John Francis Reynolds Improvements in or relating to swimming appliances
GB1041324A (en) * 1964-01-28 1966-09-07 Lothaire Pierre Jaques Dombrec Device for facilitating swimming
US3827095A (en) * 1973-03-12 1974-08-06 A Feather Swim fin
WO1995003095A1 (en) * 1993-07-20 1995-02-02 Ross, Barry, Raymond Swimming/paddling aid

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2009015686A1 (en) * 2007-07-27 2009-02-05 Arena Distribution S.A. Swim suit, particularly for competition swimming
FR2976160A1 (en) * 2011-06-10 2012-12-14 Yves Coffournic Shoe e.g. sports shoe, has rod supporting surface of articulated mobile flap according to height of shoe for facilitating advancement of user in water when user performs pedaling by producing push exerted backwards on quasi horizontal axis

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