String shooting device
AssigneeZipstring LLC
InventorsStephen Giovanni Fazio, Austin Mark Hillam, Mark Gordon Hillam
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Abstract
Provided herein is a string shooting device having a string capable of generating lift when propelled from the string shooting device and a guide to readily attach and detach the string from the string shooting device. A string shooting device described herein includes: a body; a housing attached to the body; a pair of wheels, where at least one of the pair of wheels is a driven wheel; and a string, where the string includes a surface texture configured to increase air friction in response to the string being propelled through the air by the pair of wheels. The string of an example embodiment defines an axis along which the string extends, and where the string includes a plurality of fibers extending away from the axis.
Claims20
A string shooting device comprising:
- a body;
- a housing attached to the body;
- a pair of wheels, wherein at least one of the pair of wheels is a driven wheel;
- and
- a string, wherein the string comprises a surface texture configured to increase air friction in response to the string being propelled through air by the pair of wheels, wherein the string defines an axis along which the string extends, and wherein the string comprises a plurality of fibers extending away from the axis.
A method of propelling a looped string through air comprising:
- receiving a looped string into a housing between a pair of wheels, wherein at least one of the pair of wheels is a driven wheel, wherein the looped string defines an axis along which the string extends, and wherein the looped string comprises a plurality of fibers extending away from the axis;
- driving the at least one driven wheel;
- propelling the looped string from the at least one driven wheel;
- and
- generating, from the looped string propelled by the at least one driven wheel, lift at an end of the looped string distal from the housing based on a surface texture of string configured to increase air friction in response to the looped string being propelled.
A string shooting device comprising:
- a body;
- a housing attached to the body and defining a loading slot;
- a pair of wheels, wherein at least one of the pair of wheels is a driven wheel, wherein the loading slot is disposed at least partially over at least one of the pair of wheels;
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- a looped string, wherein the looped string comprises a surface texture configured to increase air friction in response to the looped string being propelled through air by the pair of wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.