Twisting frame assembly

Claim 1

A TWISTING FRAME COMPRISING A PAIR OF SEPARATE, GENERALLY SYMMETRICAL FRAME SECTIONS MOUNTED FOR ROTATION ABOUT A COMMON AXIS, EACH SECTION INCLUDING AN AXIAL RECESSED GUIDE SHAFT COAXIAL WITH SAID COMMON AXIS, A CROSSMEMBER SECURED TO SAID GUIDE SHAFT AND PROJECTING RADIALLY OUTWARD THEREFROM, AND A RECESSED GUIDE ARM SECURED TO AN OUTER END OF THE CROSS MEMBER AND PROJECTING AXIALLY THEREFROM, THE TWO FRAME SECTIONS BEING MOUNTED SO THAT THE RESPECTIVE GUIDE ARMS THEREOF ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS EACH OTHER IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT AND WITH THEIR FREE ENDS SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER BY A DISTANCE WHICH IS LESS THAN ONE-HALF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID CROSS-MEMBERS OF SAID FRAME SECTIONS, TAKE-UP MEANS SUPPORTED BETWEEN SAID FRAME SECTIONS FOR ROTATION ABOUT A TRANSVERSE AXIS, GUIDE MEANS ARRANGED FOR GUIDING A ROPELIKE ELEMENT FROM AN OUTER END OF ONE OF SAID AXIAL GUIDE SHAFTS, AXIALLY THROUGH THE RECESS THEREIN, RADIALLY OUTWARD ALONG THE RELATED CROSS-MEMBER TO THE RELATED GUIDE ARM, AXIALLY THROUGH THE RECESS THEREIN, ACROSS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE FREE ENDS OF THE RESPECTIVE GUIDE ARMS, AXIALLY THROUGH THE RECESS IN THE OTHER GUIDE ARM, RADIALLY INWARD ALONG THE OTHER CROSS-MEMBER TO THE OTHER AXIAL GUIDE SHAFT, AXIALLY THROUGH THE RECESS THEREIN AND THENCE TO SAID TAKE-UP MEANS, MEANS FOR ROTATING BOTH FRAME SECTIONS IN SUBSTANTIAL SYNCHRONISM TO TWIST SAID ROPE-LIKE ELEMENT, AND MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ROTATING THE TAKEUP MEANS TO TAKE UP THE TWISTED ROPE-LIKE ELEMENT.