FR2846888A1 - Swimming learning device for children of more than eighteen months and adults, has garment including two straps fitted with hooks that cling to respective cords, boards on which cords that keep lower part of body floating are fixed - Google Patents

Abstract

The kit has a garment with three straps, where two straps are fitted with hooks that cling to cords (5,6), respectively. The cords, which keep a lower part of a body floating, are fixed on a board (7) and to a board (9) by four cords (8). Casters (10) are fixed on the board (9) and slides on cords (11), which are attached to bars (13) nailed on a ground by hooks (12). The garment is provided with an inflatable headrest.

Description

-1 The present invention relates to a device for learning to swim at

  children from 18 months and adults.

  Learning to swim is traditionally done using a bar

  held by a lifeguard or using buoys or boards.

  These different methods do not prevent the risk of drowning, the accessories are annoying and people who learn to swim cannot

not move freely.

  The device according to this invention overcomes these drawbacks. It is in fact made up according to a first characteristic of a garment suitable for the person learning to swim, which hangs on four cords fixed to a board itself held by ropes on a second board provided with rollers which slide on two ropes fixed at their ends to bars

nailed to the ground.

  According to particular embodiments: - the boards can be made of wood or plastic - the casters can move on a single rope - the clothing will be different depending on the weight and size of the person learning to swim - the bars attached to the floor will be steel

  The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

  Figure 1 shows seen from back and front the garment.

  Figure 2 shows the kit for learning to swim.

  With reference to this drawing (FIG. 1), the garment comprises, seen from the back, three straps (1, 2, 3) which surround the body and two of which (1, 3) each have two hooks (a, b, c, d); seen from the front, three straps (1, 2, 3) and one of which 25 (2) has a hook (e), which allows a third person to pull, thanks to

  a rope that it will tie the person learning to swim, and an inflatable headrest (14).

  With reference to this drawing (Figure 2), the kit has two parts.

  A first part composed of two strings (5) at the end of which are attached screw links (Sa) and two other strings (6), a little longer than the two strings seen above, at the end of which are snap hooks reel (6a). The two screw links (Sa) are attached to the hooks (a) and (b) of the garment and the carabiners (6a) to the 35 hooks (c) and (d), in order to keep the part floating and moving. body of the person learning to swim. The strings (5 and 6) are fixed to a board (7) thanks to four assembled carabiners and fixed on the

board (7).

  The second part consists of four cords (8) fixed to a second 40 board (9) on which are screwed four casters which slide on two

  ropes (11) which run the length of the pool.

  -2 These ropes (11) are attached by pitons (12) to two bars (13) fixed to the ground. The four cords (8) can be adjusted to adapt to the size of

the person learning to swim.

  By way of nonlimiting example, the bars (13) will have dimensions of the order

  180 cm high and 0.4 cm wide and their tripod 100 cm high.

  The board (7) will have dimensions of the order of 15 cm in length and width and 1.5 cm thick, and the second board (9) of 25 cm in length and width and 1.5 cm d 'thickness. The strings (11) will be the size of the pool. 50 The device according to the invention is particularly intended for learning to swim safely and therefore for sellers of swimming pools and accessories.

for swimming pool.

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Claims (6)

  1) Device for learning to swim characterized in that it comprises a garment (Figure 1) which hangs on strings (5 and 6, Figure 2), thanks to hooks (a, b, c, d) sewn on straps (1, 2, 3), fixed to a first board (7, fig. 2), itself held by four other cords (8) to a second board (9) on which are fixed rollers (10 ) which slide on two ropes (11), attached at their end by pitons (12) with two bars (13) nailed to the ground.   2) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the strap (1, 10 fig. 1) is composed of two hooks (a and b, fig. 1) attaching to   screw links (5a, fig. 2) fixed on the rope (5).   3) Device according to claim 1 or claim 2 characterized in that the strap (3, fig. 1) is composed of two hooks (c and d, fig. 1) attaching to snap hooks (6a, fig 2) fixed on the ropes (6). 15 4) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the garment   is provided with an inflatable headrest (14).   ) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the strap (2,   Fig. 1) has a hook (e).   6) Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the length of the strings (11) is the length of the swimming pool.   7) Device according to any one of the preceding claims   characterized in that the length of the strings (8) varies according to the size of the person learning to swim. 25   8) Device according to any one of the preceding claims   characterized in that the strings (6) are slightly longer than the strings (5).