(19)
(11) EP 0 201 247 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.10.1987 Bulletin 1987/43

(43) Date of publication A2:
12.11.1986 Bulletin 1986/46

(21) Application number: 86303113

(22) Date of filing: 24.04.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT NL SE

(30) Priority: 26.04.1985 US 727694

(71) Applicant: Bray, Kenneth W.
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(72) Inventors:
  • Bray, Kenneth W.
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  • Rhodes, Sandra Marie
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  • Mayers, Richard Willie
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(54) Webbed Swimming aid


(57) A webbed swimming aid formed from two planar sheets shaped to conform generally to the shape of an outspread hand from a first sheet of elastic, mesh material and a second sheet of thin, stiff, water impermeable material. Truncated finger stalls are provided by stitching or sealing regions along the upper edge of the sheets towards the palm portion of the aid. Webbing stiffener members may be secured along the fingertip edge of second sheet, or, alternatively, may be sealed within the triangular webbed regions sewn or sealed along the upper edge of the aid with apices of the triangles directed towards the palm portion 'of the aid to define the finger stalls.






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