Swimming paddle and custom fitting method

摘要

A swimming paddle with an upper rounded swimcap-shaped edge terminating in side indentations that define cap-securing temples, and a central goggle-securing notch cooperating with a concave region in the lower edge to store goggles vertically on the paddle. The paddle may further include fingerpad-indexing holes extending through the body of the paddle from the inner face to the outer face, the holes sized to allow only the fingerpads of a swimmer's extended fingers to partially protrude from the inner face. A method for custom fitting a swimming paddle to a particular swimmer's hand includes generating a side-by-side image of the swimmer's hand and a commonly-carried object such as a mobile phone in a common plane. The image is compared to stored dimensional data for the object to remotely determine the dimensions of the swimmer's hand and manufacture a custom paddle.

主权项

1. A pair swimming paddles, each of which comprises:
a generally planar body having an outer face, an inner face, an upper perimetric edge, a lower perimetric edge, and side perimetric edges; a retainer for releasably retaining a swimmer's hand to the paddle palm-side against the inner face; a plurality of elongated holes disposed proximal to the upper perimetric edge, wherein the longer dimensions of the elongated holes are substantially parallel to the upper perimetric edge; and a plurality of fingerpad-indexing holes in the inner face of the planar body, the fingerpad-indexing holes sized to receive one of the frontal fingerpad portions of the fingertips of the swimmer's hand, when the swimmer's hand is retained against the inner face of the paddle by the retainer; wherein each of the side perimetric edges is tapered inwardly such that top and bottom portions of the planar body are broader than a middle portion of the planar body defined by the tapered portions of the side perimetric edges.