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US 10,894,556 B2Granted
Riding and sliding sports apparatus
OwnerDavid Wayne Dieter, Aymeric Ralph Henri Fraise +1inventors
InventorsDavid Wayne Dieter, Aymeric Ralph Henri Fraise, Scott Christopher Stefan
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Abstract
In accordance with example embodiments of the present disclosure, the invention provides a sports apparatus having an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface designed to slide on slippery surfaces such as snow, ice or sand and the lower surface having wheels and thus designed to glide along smooth hard surfaces.
Claims9
A sports apparatus for sliding and rolling along a surface comprising:
- material of substantially uniform thickness providing a contiguous form having an upper surface, and a lower surface;
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- the upper surface having a convex shape resulting in the lower surface having a concave shape;
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- the contour of said upper surface comprises a substantially concave contour, transitioning to a convex contour that in turn transitions to a substantially flat contour in the substantially convex surface;
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- said concave contour for sitting on, and said flat contour for placing feet on;
- and said concave contour is above said flat contour;
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- said convex contour is above the flat contour;
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- said upper and lower surface transitioning arcuately to vertical side-walls extending away from said upper surface and surrounding said lower surface;
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- the sidewalls having mounting means for rotationally engaging the axels of at least two wheels;
- wherein
- a rider may sit upon the upper surface, thus positioning the at least two wheels downward for riding along a hard surface;
- and alternately, the rider may sit upon the lower surface thus positioning the convex surface downward for sliding along a slippery surface.
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A sports apparatus for sliding and rolling along a surface comprising:
- material of substantially uniform thickness providing a contiguous form having an upper surface, and a lower surface;
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- the upper surface having a convex shape resulting in the lower surface having a concave shape;
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- wherein said lower surface is a comprises a substantially flat contour that transitions into a concave contour that in turn transitions into a convex contour;
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- said flat contour is for sitting on, and said convex contour is for placing feet on and said convex contour is below said flat contour;
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- said concave contour is below said flat contour;
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- said upper and lower surface transitioning arcuately to vertical side-walls extending away from said upper surface and surrounding said lower surface;
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- the sidewalls having mounting means for rotationally engaging the axles of at least two wheels;
- wherein a rider may sit upon the upper surface, thus positioning the at least two wheels downward for riding along a hard surface;
- and alternately, the rider may sit upon the lower surface thus positioning the convex surface downward for sliding along a slippery surface.
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A sports apparatus for sliding and rolling along a surface comprising:
- a substantially uniform thickness forming an upper horizontal surface, and a lower horizontal surface;
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- said upper and lower horizontal surface having a long axis and a short axis;
- the long axis having a first end and a second end;
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- said upper horizontal surface and said lower horizontal surface transitioning arcuately to vertical side-walls;
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- a second vertical surface proximal to said vertical side-walls forming a double-walled side-wall;
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- said double-walled side-walls supporting at least two axles for mounting at least two wheels;
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- the opposite side of the upper horizontal surface is the lower horizontal surface;
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- said upper horizontal surface having a contour
- said contour comprising:
- an arcuate transitional surface from said vertical side-wall proximal to said first end;
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- horizontal rails extending from said first end to said second end;
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- said horizontal rails parallel to said long axis and proximal to said double-walled side-walls;
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- a concave form transitioning from said arcuate transition from said vertical side-wall proximal to said first end;
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- said concave form residing between two said horizontal rails;
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- said concave form transitioning along said long axis to a convex form;
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- said convex form transitioning along said long axis to a horizontal planar form;
- wherein, said upper horizontal surface provides a means for sitting atop the form with said wheels downward, said uniform thickness form also providing a means for sitting within the form when said two horizontal rails are downward.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.