Recreational flying disk apparatus for enhanced flight enabling and traversing land and water surfaces

• US 20080125001A1
• Filed: 08/09/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thomas John Barniak
• Original Assignee: Thomas John Barniak
• Inventors: Barniak, Thomas John
• Granted Patent: US 7,682,214 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 446/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/18 Throwing or slinging toys, e.g. flying disc toys discs used in athletics A63B65/10as part of a game A63F9/02; sling weapons F41B3/00; spring toy guns F41B7/08

Abstract

An accessory for affixmentation to a recreational flying disk is disclosed in the form of a separate apparatus that is readily compatible and adaptable to any flying disk that will greatly enhance the flight distance length and the other flight characteristics of that retrofitted disk because of the centrifugal power, ballast stabilization and lift capability that the disclosed invention apparatus transmutes to the said flying disk. The disclosed apparatus, in conjunction with it being the aforementioned aerodynamic catalyst that it becomes once it is affixed to the said thrown flying disk, also can transform the said disk into a flying disk that can skip across the surface of a body of water not unlike a flat stone used for centuries for the same results—that same body of water that would render an ordinary flying disk as immobile upon contact with it now can be considered as just another obstacle to cross just as easily as flying aerially. The many variations of embodiments that are possible and probable are capable of being manufactured in an inexpensive method or manner such as by plastic molding or injection in and as a lightweight composite, which is a proven material both in the durability and safety factorage in the art of recreational flying disks.

Claims

1. An apparatus to be affixed to the airfoil dome of a recreational flying disk and disposed on the underside of the said disk, comprising;

a bolt-type fastener with head containing an exteriorly threaded shank that passes through a round hole of a substantial size drilled at a predetermined point through the dome of the flying disk, whereupon a threaded structure body is threadably attached onto the threaded shank sufficient in its size and length to come into surface contact and thereupon being hand-tightened and providing a predetermined amount of distance space from the underside surface of the airfoil dome of the disk for a threaded bladder structure body of a predetermined type and shape to be threadably attached onto the threaded shank until surface contact is made to the threaded structure body thereupon being hand-tightened whereby the total apparatus becomes rigidly affixed to the said disk providing a centrifugal empowerment, ballast weight and lift enhancement support structure to the said disk when thrown in a spinning fashion.

2. The threaded bladder structure body of claim 1 wherein said bladder body is of a hollow repository type to provide introduction capability of a ballast weight material that disperses in a centrifugal fashion around the exterior boundary of the interior repository structure body when thrown in a spinning fashion.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a bladder structure body of a predetermined size, shape and weight of a solid material type containing a hole of a substantial size sufficient to allow the threaded shank of the bolt-type fastener of claim 1 to slidably pass through and extending a predetermined distance past an external planar line of the said bladder structure therefore to provide the upper exterior surface of the said bladder structure a point of contact with the threaded structure body of claim 1 and a method of threadable attachment of a threaded nut structure onto the said extending shank whereby hand-tightening the total apparatus becomes rigidly affixed to the airfoil dome of the said flying disk.

4. The threaded structure body of claim 1 whereas the structure body contains a hole of a substantial size sufficient to allow the threaded shank of the bolt-type fastener of claim 1 to slidably pass through and is therefore unthreaded.

5. A transformation method of a recreational flying disk by affixmentation of the apparatus of claim 1 wherein the said bladder structure body is disposed at a planar level point lower than the outermost circumstantial rim of the airfoil dome of the said disk thereby providing the means and structure for the said disk to traverse a liquid or solid surface in an intermittent fashion during a spinning flight.

6. A transformation method of a recreational flying disk by affixmentation of the apparatus of claim 1 wherein a bladder structure body of a hollow repository type is disposed at a planar level point lower than the outermost circumstantial rim of the airfoil dome of the said disk.

7. A transformation method of a recreational flying disk by affixmentation of the apparatus of claim 1 wherein a bladder structure body of a solid material type containing a hole for the said threaded shank to pass through and be attached is disposed at a planar level point lower than the outermost circumstantial rim of the airfoil dome of the said disk.