Water jump rope device

Abstract

Improvement in a water powered jump rope device having a pair of standards and a hollow water-conducting jump rope rotatably supported by and between the standards, the improvement comprising each standard being free standing and consisting of a hollow base and a water-conducting upright pipe supported on the base, the base having a threaded fill opening for receiving a ballast, the lower end of the upright pipe threadably engaged in the fill opening, the standard having a liquid inlet therefor, a water-conducting swivel joint carried on a side of the upright pipe near the upper end thereof, the swivel joint comprising a threaded boss formed in a side of the upright pipe, a threaded hollow gland threadably engaged in th boss, a second water-conducting pipe, the second pipe rotatably carried in the interior of the gland, a flange in the inner end of the second pipe, a radial surface on the inner end of the gland which serves as a bearing surface for the flange during rotation of the second pipe, the radial surface and the flange forming a water-tight rotating seal for the swivel joint during operation of the device, a water-conducting connecting member engaged on the outer end of the second pipe, the interior of the connecting member formed by intersecting apertures intersecting each other at an obtuse angle, and a third water-conducting pipe having its inner end engaged on the connecting member and its outer end frictionally connected to an end of the jump rope.