US3171142A - Swimming shoe - Google Patents

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US3171142A
US3171142A US315516A US31551663A US3171142A US 3171142 A US3171142 A US 3171142A US 315516 A US315516 A US 315516A US 31551663 A US31551663 A US 31551663A US 3171142 A US3171142 A US 3171142A
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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
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  • the object of the present invention is to remedy this inconvenience and to make a swimming shoe adjustable and able to be adapted to different types of swimming generally practiced, and to the particular morphology of the swimmer for a particular type of stroke of the feet.
  • the invention is characterized in that the abutments limiting the amplitude of the strokes of the flexible flipper are adjustable in position, preferably independently of each other in such a manner as to adjust the amplitude of the strokes and the angles of the incidence of the flipper in its end positions.
  • the abutments are constituted by two pairs of rods disposed longitudinally on each side of the flipper, the rods being pivoted at one end on a transverse axis situated approximately in the region where the flipper connects to the foot part and their free ends extending towards the free end of the flipper, each pair of rods comprising an upper rod and a lower rod situated respectively on both sides of the flipper, means being provided for locking the two rods of each pair independently of each other and independently of the rods of the other pair in any/ or desired angular position.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of a swimming shoe in accordance with the invention
  • FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are side elevations with the abutments in different possible positions
  • FIG. 5 is a detail of an enlarged scale, in section along the line VV of FIG. 1.
  • the swimimng shoe comprises a foot part 1 adapted to conform to the foot of a swimmer and to which is connected, by the intermediary of a transverse thinned out portion 3, a flexible flipper 2.
  • the thinned out portion 3 gives to the flipper 2, as known in itself, greater suppleness of stroke.
  • the assembly is made in a single piece from moulded material.
  • the swimming shoe is provided with abutments constituted by two pairs of rods 3,171,142 Fatented Mar. 2, 1965 ice 7 disposed longitudinally each on one side of the flipper, the rods being pivoted at one end on a transverse axes situated behind the thinned out portion 3, and free ends extending towards the free ends of the flipper.
  • Each pair of rods comprises an upper rod and a lower rod situated respectively on each side of the flipper, one above it and the other below it. 7
  • each pair of rods 7 is constituted by a gudgeon pin 5 secured to a plate 4 buried in the moulding of the material of the footwear.
  • the corresponding end of each rod 7 presents two successive elbows at between mutual perpendicular planes and finishes in an eyelet 8 threaded over the gudgeon pin 5.
  • rod 7 could be wedged in a manner to permit a stroke more or less strong of the flipper 2 and modify at will the angular position of the lower rods, for example, as shown at 7 in FIG. 2, or instead the upper rods independently of each other.
  • the flipper 2 could likewise be wedged in suitable angular positions in squeezing the flipper between the rods 7 as shown in FIG. 3.
  • the flipper 2 could equally be given a certain bias in equally squeezing the said flipper between the rod '7, but in giving a different orientation to each pair of rods as shown in FIG. 4.
  • a swimming shoe comprising a shoe portion conforming to the foot of a swimmer, a flexible flipper integral with said shoe portion and extending therefrom, a plurality of abutments serving to limit the amplitude of the strokes of said flipper, said abutments including two pairs of rods disposed longitudinally each on one side of the flipper and being pivoted by one end on a transversal taxis situated approximately in the region where the flipper is connected to the foot part, the free ends extending towards the free end of the flipper, each pair of rods comprising an upper rod and a lower rod situated respectively on each side of the flipper, means being provided for locking the two rods of each pair, independently one of the other and independently of the rods of the other pair, in any desired angular position.

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US4869696A (en) * 1988-12-15 1989-09-26 Ciccotelli Stephen S Swim fin
US4981454A (en) * 1989-02-01 1991-01-01 Klein Kevin R Retractable swim fin
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US6371821B1 (en) 1996-01-11 2002-04-16 Nature's Wing Fin Designs, Llc High efficiency hydrofoil and swim fin designs
US5632662A (en) * 1996-08-26 1997-05-27 Cadorette; Ron Centrally articulated swin fin
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US6364728B1 (en) 1999-09-08 2002-04-02 Htm Sport S.P.A. Swimming flipper with controlled-flexibility blade
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US20070037459A1 (en) * 2002-07-19 2007-02-15 Mccarthy Peter T High deflection hydrofoils and swim fins
US20070049140A1 (en) * 2002-07-19 2007-03-01 Mccarthy Peter T High deflection hydrofoils and swim fins
US6884134B2 (en) 2002-07-19 2005-04-26 Mccarthy Peter T. High deflection hydrofoils and swim fins
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US20050176318A1 (en) * 2002-07-19 2005-08-11 Mccarthy Peter T. High deflection hydrofoils and swim fins
US20040127117A1 (en) * 2002-07-19 2004-07-01 Mccarthy Peter T. High deflection hydrofoils and swim fins
US7172480B2 (en) 2004-09-30 2007-02-06 Aqua Lung America, Inc. Bungee flipper
US20060068659A1 (en) * 2004-09-30 2006-03-30 Abbott Timothy L Bungee flipper
US20060234570A1 (en) * 2005-04-19 2006-10-19 Ron Cadorette Swim fin with detachable blade
US7140937B2 (en) 2005-04-19 2006-11-28 Ron Cadorette Swim fin with detachable blade
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US20100003874A1 (en) * 2006-05-16 2010-01-07 Technisub S.P.A. Flipper
US7988510B2 (en) 2006-05-16 2011-08-02 Technisub S.P.A. Flipper
US8641464B2 (en) 2010-04-08 2014-02-04 Cetatek Holdings Inc. Flippers, boots, systems including same, and methods of using same
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US10675508B2 (en) 2010-04-08 2020-06-09 Cetatek Holdings Inc. Coupleable fin apparatuses and boot toe bodies
US9440114B2 (en) 2012-10-12 2016-09-13 Cetatek Holdings Inc. Boot sole system and fin for same

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