Classifications

• • 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
  • B63C11/46—Divers' sleds or like craft, i.e. craft on which man in diving-suit rides
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B34/00—Vessels specially adapted for water sports or leisure; Body-supporting devices specially adapted for water sports or leisure
  • B63B34/60—Arrangements for towing, e.g. for use with water-skis or wakeboards
  • B63B34/63—Holding means for the user, e.g. handle bars or harnesses
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B34/00—Vessels specially adapted for water sports or leisure; Body-supporting devices specially adapted for water sports or leisure
  • B63B34/50—Body-supporting buoyant devices, e.g. bathing boats or water cycles
  • B63B34/54—Body-supporting buoyant devices, e.g. bathing boats or water cycles specially adapted for being towed, e.g. banana boats, water sledges or towed buoys
• • 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
  • B63C2011/028—Devices for underwater towing of divers or divers' sleds

Definitions

• the invention has for its object to provide a simple device with which a sports swimmer can swim in the towing position in the towing of a boat and thereby has the possibility to swing like a water skier to the left or right and o also swim in places under water
• the device When used, the device is attached to the tow rope of a boat with its V-shaped coupling cable at the top of the coupling.
• the float can then be pulled from the boat in the wake in the swimming position, whereby he touches the device with his hands on the handle parts.
• the float is able to carry, even if the towing boat does not make a trip.
• the swimmer has the option of z. B. by pivoting about the transverse axis or by an inclination of the longitudinal axis to the direction of travel to the left or right or to dive in sections.
• the transverse spacing of the handle parts of, for example, 70 to 80 cm and the arrangement of the handle openings in front of the transverse axis make handling easier for the swimmer.
• Fig. 1 is a plan view of a device according to the
• Fig. 2 is a section along II-II of Fig. 1;
• FIG. 3 is a section according to III-III of FIG. 1;
• Fig. 4 illustrates the use of the device according to the invention.
• the device is in the form of a flat board made of a floating material with a square or approximately square basic shape.
• a transparent glass pane 12 is used in the central area.
• the floating body is widened in an arc shape in such a way that handle parts 14 are formed, sometimes with a handle opening 15.
• These handle openings 15 each lie in front of a transverse axis 19 in the longitudinal center.
• Each grip opening 15 is assigned a recessed grip 15a behind the transverse axis 19. 5
• the front edge 13 and also the rear edge 13a of the float is profiled in a V-shape. This profiling also extends over the handle parts 14
• a coupling part 16 is provided for coupling the floating body to the tow rope of a boat.
• the rope ends are each fastened to screws, each of which is laterally attached to the handle parts 14 above 5, these screws being in the region of the handle openings 15, that is in each case in front of the transverse axis 19.
• the clutch cable 1 is dimensioned such that it extends in the extended direction 1 state assumes a V-shape with the apex 17 lying in front of the floating body.
• the tow rope of the boat is moored there.
• FIG. 4 The use of the device is shown in FIG. 4.
• the swimmer takes the device in the floating position on the handle parts 14 and can be towed from the boat at a reasonable, not too high speed. He has the option to adjust the position of the float o so that he can swing to the left or to the right, as in water skiing, in the swimming position. In addition, there is also the possibility of diving in sections, in which the swimmer adjusts the front edge of the float downwards. 5
• the device also floats lying flat on the water at rest and offers the possibility to observe the underwater world undisturbed by the wave movement.

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