Patent ID: 6056617
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
In apparatus for flight through air comprising a central component between a pair of outer components which assist flight and extend outwardly from the central component to their respective outer ends, the central component being actuatable to rotate the whole apparatus around a longitudinal axis which extends between said outer ends and to launch the rotating apparatus sidewise in a direction at substantially right angles to said longitudinal axis, most of the lengths of the outer components between said ends being in a common plane passing through the central and outer components, the improvement in which each of said outer components comprises inner and outer parts lying in said plane and separated by a space between them in said plane, and comprises a series of panels which integrally connect said separated inner and outer parts, said panels each having along its periphery a pair of opposite sides which are substantially parallel to each other and to said opposite sides of the other panels, the first of said panels having one of its said opposite sides in said plane next to and integral with said inner part where it ends at said space, said one side being at substantially right angles to the direction of outward extension of said inner component, and the other opposite side of the first panel being spaced away from one face of said plane; the second of said panels having one of its said opposite sides lying in said plane next to and integral with said outer part where it ends at said separating space, and the other of its said opposite sides is spaced away from the face of said plane opposite to its said one face so that said plane is between said sides of the first and second panels which are spaced away from said plane; and the third of said panels has its said pair of opposite sides integrally joined to the respective sides of the first and second panels which are spaced away from opposite faces of said plane, and between its said opposite sides said third panel extends through said plane and said separating space.