US1196421A - Swimming apparatus. - Google Patents

Description

J. S. BARTHOLOMEW.

SWIMMING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-5.19M.

Patented Aug. 29,1916.

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JAMES S. BARTHOLOMEW, 0F DEGOTO, CALIFORNIA.

SWIMMING APPARATUS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, i916.

Application filed January 5, 1916. Serial No. 70,400%-.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES S. BARTHOLO- MEW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Decoto, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swimming Apparatus; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel improvements in swimming apparatus and the object is to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efliciency of manipulation.

To these ends the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of the several elements of the device as will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing the same reference characters indicate the same part of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved swimming apparatus as it appears in the difi'erent strokes when adjusted to the human leg. Fig. 2 shows the improved swimming apparatus in the water during the propelling frog stroke and recovery stroke of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing propelling and recovery of the scissors stroke.

On my drawing No. 9 is the flexible fabric havingits outer edge secured to a metallie or wooden or composition hoop restrained and stayed by cord or wire network and the flexible fabric is divided into strips of approximately even width to permit the water to flow easily through it on the recovery stroke but offering steady resistance on the propelling stroke of human or animal legs or on the demonstrating manikins and images.

Figure 21 denotes a plurality ofhoops of metal, of wood, or of composition, rigidly strung with a network restraining the flexible fabric in a horizontal position about the human or animal legs by the garters on the inside to the hoops on the outside.

Figure 22 denotes a secondary plurality of hoops secured to the inside of a flexible fabric of all hoops excepting the top hoop on the human or animal legs and swinging clear of the legs. All parts are painted in national or collegiate or society colors.

Figure 23 denotes a network of cords or wires restraining a flexible fabric 9 on all hoops.

The accompanying drawing shows my improvement in the best form now known to me but many changes in the details might be made within the skill of a good mechanic without departing from the spirit of my invention as set forth in the claims at the end of this specification.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A swimming apparatus of the class described comprising a garter and inner or secondary hoop and a plurality of outer hoops, networks extending from the garter and from the secondary hoop to the outer hoops, a sectional flexible fabric restrained by each of said networks, the sections opening and closing under said network substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a swimming apparatus of the class described a plurality of inner hoops and a plurality of outer hoops connected by a network restraining a flexible fabric.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES S. BAR'IHOLOMEW.

Witnesses:

RALPH L. STAFFORD, THOMAS E. TRAMPLEASURE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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