ES1218124U - Accessory for entertainment or stimulation in the practice or learning of swimming (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Accessory for entertainment or stimulation in the practice or learning of swimming configured from a contoured figure (1), characterized in that in the lower part it has a heavy element (4) in order to serve as a ballast. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

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DRIO FOR ENTERTAINMENT OR STIMULATION IN THE PRACTICE OR LEARNING OF SWIMMING

TECHNICAL SECTOR

5 The stated invention falls within the sector of

accessories or devices used to entertain or stimulate practice or learning in a person of a certain activity.

Specifying more the sector, the invention enunciated is included within the sector of accessories or devices, which for the purpose set forth above, are used in aquatic means for the practice or learning of swimming.

STATE OF THE TECHNIQUE

There are currently a certain variety of accessories and devices which are made in order to entertain and at the same time stimulate both learning and swimming practice.

Although both learning and swimming practice can be targeted at people of all ages, it is true that there are groups of people with certain age ranges who are more prone to the imposition of learning and subsequently of a practice of swimming due to certain circumstances. These groups are formed by younger or children and formed by seniors.

The children's group, due to the fact of acquiring survival in an aquatic environment and at the same time maintaining a healthy lifestyle from a very early age, can be said to be the largest group in terms of swimming learning.

The group of people with quite advanced ages, are induced by their medical specialists, or for their own reasons, to the practice of

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swimming in order to serve as therapy in rehabilitation or maintenance. This induction in some occasions entails, even at a later age, the learning of said aquatic activity by some people belonging to the present group.

5 With regard to the largest group, the child, without ruling out

any type of group the existing accessories for swimming learning take on different forms whose true function is the assistance in such learning.

For example, there is evidence of the following accessories or 10 devices intended for assistance in learning to swim;

- Traditional sleeves and floats,

- the foam rubber cylinders known as "churros",

- vests with built-in floating elements,

- hand or dorsal tables,

15 - and belts with floating elements.

In the field of entertainment in the aquatic environment, regardless of the type of group, there is evidence of a large number of accessories, devices and games intended for this purpose, and whose use can be done individually or collectively.

20 At the date of realization of this report, there is no record

of any invention whose purpose and configuration closely resemble the stated invention.

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

As mentioned in the state of the art, the accessories, 25 existing devices, devices and games are intended to either serve as assistants in swimming learning, or serve as entertainment in the aquatic environment without inducing or stimulating to that learning.

The group of younger people, the child, is the group which has the greatest difficulty in inducing or stimulating the practice of swimming, due to the unattractive nature of these practices, in addition to the high level of distraction which presents this group in 5 a phase of learning product of the early age

For this reason, getting the attention of these people in order to get the desired attention and concentration in the learning and subsequent practice of swimming is a challenge that is continually posed to the monitors in charge of such function.

10 The invention set forth is intended to solve said inconvenience, and to

To this end, it provides an accessory which attracts and attracts the attention of these people, achieving the displacement in their aquatic environment to it through the practice of swimming.

As it can be deduced, with the introduction made until the 15th moment and later with the explanation of the invention, although the invention seems to be destined to this specific group of people, it is not ruled out that in addition its employment can be performed in people of advanced age and people in rehabilitation phase whose purpose is also to induce the practice of swimming for therapeutic purposes.

20 DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The accessory for entertainment or stimulation in the practice or learning of swimming which has a contoured figure, is characterized in that in its lower part Neva incorporated a ballast so that said figure maintains verticality when it is found in the water.

The incorporation of said ballast to the contoured figure is carried out by means of a ring or the like, not discarding its incorporation by adhering said ballast to the lower part of the figure.

In order that the flotation levels of the fixture are suitable (surface, medium or background) according to the reason that the figure represents, both the volume and weight of the ballast will be matched with the tarnaho and weight of the figure.

5 As explained at the beginning of the description, the end lies in

that the figures, representing any reason according to the age of the people in the water, maintain the verticality in it in order to entertain or stimulate.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

10 Figure 1.- Represents a front view of the accessory in an embodiment.

Figure 2 - Represents a front view of the accessory in another embodiment.

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

15 With reference to the attached figures and according to the numbering

reflected in them, in a first preferred but not limited embodiment, the accessory for entertainment or stimulation in practice or learning of swimming comprises a contoured figure (1), which in its lower part has a hole (2) through which a ring or similar (3) passes to which a heavy element (4) is fixed.

In another embodiment, the contoured figure (1) disposes the heavy element (4) in its lower part adhered.

The materials that make up the parts of the accessory will be in accordance with the circumstances in which they will work, being the preferred materials for the realization of the contoured figure those with waterproof and light properties such as the temnoplastics, foam rubber or cork and the heavy element and the ring or similar metals with anticorrosive properties. Nor is an embodiment of all parts in the same material, for example, plastic, cork or

wood, the heavy element being formed by a housing with heavy materials inside.

The reason that the figure represents will be consistent with the people to whom entertainment or stimulation is directed. Thus, for example, for the case of the children's sector, they could be animals, famous people, etc., and for adults and the elderly, reasons related to entertainment or physical activity.

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Claims (4)

5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 Application No. Effective  07/27/2018 1. Accessory for entertainment or stimulation in the practice or learning of swimming configured from a contoured figure (1), characterized in that at the bottom it has a heavy element (4) in order to serve as ballast. 2. Accessory for entertainment or stimulation in practice or swimming learning according to the previous claim, characterized in that the heavy element (4) is arranged in the contoured figure (1) by means of a ring or the like (3) housed in a hole (2) present in said figure. 3. Accessory for entertainment or stimulation in practice or swimming learning according to the first claim, characterized in that in another embodiment (fig. 2) the heavy element (4) is arranged in the contoured figure (1) adheredly. 4. Accessory for entertainment or stimulation in practice or swimming learning according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the motif represented in the contoured figure (1) could be any that performs a function of Entertainment or stimulation. F.OEPM 08/14/2018