Improved Apparatus for use in Learning to Swim.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 19th July 1892-Accented 20th Aug. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for use in Learning to Swim.
I, FREDERIC KYNNERSLEY SMYTHIES of 9 Salisbury Road Southsea
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved apparatus for use in learning to swim, and
consists in attaching a suitable number of air-tight tubes of tin, or other material,
to a continuous webbing of any convenient material which is provided with loops
for the reception and retention of such tubes.
The webbing or flexible frame is furnished with arm holes or straps to secure
the same to the person, and the tubes extend across the chest preferably, and so
buoy up the swimmer.
From time to time as confidence is gained and skill in the swimming movements
acquired the tubes may be removed one by one without interfering with adjust-
ment of the remainder, until at last the whole appliance can be entirely dispensed
with.
Dated this 19th day of October 1901
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for use in Learning to Swim.
I, FREDERIC KYNNERSLEY SMYTHIES of 9 Salisbury Road Southsea
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon:---
This invention relates to an improved apparatus for use in learning to swim and
consists in attaching a suitable number of air tight tubes of tin or other material
to a continuous webbing of any convenient material which is provided with loops
for the reception and retention of such tubes.
The webbing or flexible frame is furnished with arm holes or straps to secure
the same to the person and the tubes extend across the chest preferably and so
buoy up the swimmer.
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I do not confine myself to the use of webbing with loops therein but only use
it as a convenient method of securing the air tubes in the form of a bundle.
From time to time as confidence is gained and skill in the swimming movements
acquired the tubes may be removed one by one without interfering with the
adjustment of the remainder until at last the whole appliance can be entirely
dispensed with.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the tubes arranged ready to be secured to
the person.
Figure 1. is a view of the tubes held together by the webbing.
Figure 2. a sectional view thereof.
Figure 3. a view of the tubes held together by straps.
Figure 4 e sectional view themaf

page_text: neck of the person, the ends (el) being then tied under the arms behind the back
so that the tubes will be across the chest of the swimmer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the object and nature of
my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is,
An improved apparatus for use in swimming consisting of one or more air tight
tubes arranged so as to be worn by and lie across the chest of a swimmer,
substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 18th day of July A.D. 1892.
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
F. M. P.,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.