US 4,905,987 AGranted

Water sports apparatus

OwnerOtto Frenziinventor

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Abstract

A water sports apparatus, for simultaneous practicing of a number of types of water sports, being a container having an inclined floor surface and closable lower supply nozzle. Water shooting upwardly over the floor surface flows over an overflow into a supplementary pool which is subdivided into two regions, between which regions is placed a grate, and preferably, on the downstream side of the grate, a backflow valve. On the end of the inclined floor near the supply nozzle is placed an elevated water container, the water from which enables starting of the supercritical torrential flow, until a water quantity necessary for circulation and having sufficient velocity is returned through a return line from the region of the supplementary pool farthest away from the overflow. The region of the supplementary pool near to the overflow enables the athlete to exit from the apparatus without influencing the supercritical torrential stream in the water container. The return line is preferably an open trough, which can flow along an arbitrary pathway through various regions of a recreational facility, and return to the elevated container, whereby in the trough, and pools communicating with it, varying flow conditions can be attained.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A water sports apparatus for conducting water through a course, said apparatus comprising:

(a) an elevated container, said elevated container of sufficient volume to receive a quantity of water for starting circulation of the water through the course;
(b) a water container adjacent said elevated container, said water container having an inclined floor surface leading from a lower edge to an upper edge and a closeable supply nozzle connecting the elevated container and the water container for directing water from the elevated container upward over the inclined floor surface in a super critical torrential flow, the upper edge of the inclined floor surface constituting an overflow;
(c) a supplementary pool adjacent said overflow, the volume of said supplementary pool being at least as great as the volume of the elevated container, said supplementary pool including a grate dividing the supplementary pool into two regions, a first region, said first region having a proximal end adjacent the overflow in the water container and a distal end, and a second region at the distal end of said first region;
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(d) a return line comprising an open trough extending between said supplementary pool and said elevated container, said return line having an inlet positioned in said second region of the supplementary pool and a circulation pump to conduct water from the supplementary pool to the elevated container.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/265,318Filed 27 Oct 1988 · continuation
Priority: EP 84114072.622 Nov 1984
Granted: 6 Mar 1990
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A63G 31/007
Amusement arrangements: involving water
A63B 69/0093
Training appliances or apparatus for special sports: for surfing, i.e. without a sail; for skate or snow boarding
A63B 69/125
Arrangements in swimming pools for teaching swimming or for training: devices for generating a current of water in swimming pools
A63B 69/187
For skiing: for water-skiing