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US 11,043,196 B2Granted
Supporter for kick pad
AssigneePearl Musical Instrument Co.
InventorsAkito Takegawa, Yuichi Sato
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Abstract
A supporter (10) attaches a kick pad to be beaten with a beater to a stand installed on a floor surface. The supporter (10) includes an elastic member (1) that fixes the kick pad to one end as viewed in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the kick pad is beaten with the beater, and that fixes the other end as viewed in the intersecting direction to the stand.
Claims12
A supporter configured to attach a kick pad beaten with a beater to a stand installed on a floor surface, comprising:
- an elastic member that fixes the kick pad to one end as viewed in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the kick pad is beaten by the beater, and that fixes the other end as viewed in the intersecting direction to the stand, wherein
- the elastic member is formed of a solid rubber member, the solid rubber member having one and an opposite other end,
- a first fixing member designed to fix the rubber member to the kick pad is provided at one end of the rubber member, and
- a second fixing member designed to fix the rubber member to the stand is provided at the other end of the rubber member;
- and wherein
- the rubber member is attached in such a state that the one end and the other end are stretched away from each other.
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A supporter comprising:
- an elastic member including one end and an opposite other end, the elastic member extending in a direction intersecting with a direction of beating of a beater;
- a first fixing member that fixes the one end of the elastic member to a kick pad;
- and
- a second fixing member that fixes the other end of the elastic member to a stand;
- and wherein
- a plurality of elastic members, each being the elastic member, are provided on both sides of a portion of the kick pad to be beaten by the beater as viewed in a horizontal direction, with the portion to be beaten interposed therebetween.
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Kick pad apparatus comprising:
- a base;
- first and second spaced apart upright support pipes, the first and second upright support pipes being connected at lower ends thereof to the base;
- a kick pad;
- a frame having side plates connected to the kick pad;
- a first elastic damping member connected substantially horizontally between an outer side of the first pipe and the first plate of the kick pad frame;
- and
- a second elastic damping member connected substantially horizontally to an outer side of the second pipe and the second plate of the kick pad frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.