Combination kite control and reel device
OwnerDean J. Munt, III, Nancy J. Muntinventors
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Abstract
A manually controlled kite reel for controlling and operating one or more kites, and more particularly a kite reel arranged to support one or more line spools. The device provides a handle having an offset axle to rotatably support a drive spindle having a drive bar with a centrally disposed hole to receive the axle of the handle, the drive spindle including a pair of oppositely disposed line-spool-support pins wherein one of said support pins defines a crank arm for rotating the drive spindle. A line guide is provided and formed with the handle as an extended line-guide arm having a plurality of notches disposed therein and arranged so as to be in alignment with the respective positioned line spool on the drive spindle.
Claims10
A dual-line, hand-held, kite-control device, comprising:
- a handle means including an axle pin integrally formed therewith;
- a drive spindle rotatably mounted to said axle pin;
- said drive spindle including means for rotating said drive spindle about said axle pin;
- a pair of line spools removably mountable to said drive spindle whereby said line spools are hand-held in each hand of an operator thereof when said line spools are removed from said drive spindle;
- means for removably mounting said line spools to said drive spindle;
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- guide means formed on said handle means whereby lines from said line spools mounted on said drive spindle are guided back onto said line spools as said drive spindle is rotated.
A hand-held, kite reel device for independently discharging, controlling and simultaneously retrieving one or more lines connected to a kite or kites, comprising:
- a holding means including an axle pin;
- a drive spindle rotatably mounted to said axle pin by a centrally disposed hole formed in said drive spindle;
- means for rotating said drive spindle, said rotating means being affixed to said drive spindle;
- a pair of line spools removably mounted to said drive spindle;
- said spools including transverse bores for removably mounting said spools on said drive spindle;
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- means for removably mounting said line spools to said drive spindle, said means being formed as part of said drive spindle whereby said spools are removable from said drive spindle so as to be held in each hand of the operator thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.