Sway playground swing
AssigneeBCI Burke Company, LLC
InventorBart Mayer
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Abstract
A full body swing includes a broad flexible belt having a width extending between opposed front and rear ends of the swing and a length extending between opposed left and right ends of the swing, where the left and right ends are attached along their widths to an upper frame to suspend the flexible belt along a belt axis. In one embodiment, the flexible belt supports a seat section for a child to sit where movement of the seat section occurs along the belt axis of the flexible belt and is facilitated by alternating rigid and flexible sections of the belt along the belt axis.
Claims21
A swing assembly comprising:
- a support frame extending upwardly from a ground and providing a pair of horizontally extending support bars;
- a belt with opposed ends supported by the pair of horizontally extending support bars and extending below and between the pair of horizontally extending support bars along a belt axis to define a length and extending between a front and rear of the support frame to define a width, the length and width of the belt sized to be capable of supporting a child;
- a seat plate of a rigid material supported by the belt and positioned between the pair of horizontally extending support bars;
- and
- at least one force plate of a rigid material supported by the belt and spaced from the seat plate and the opposed ends of the belt to provide interposed joints between the at least one force plate and the seat plate and between the at least one force plate and the opposed ends of the belt capable of being flexed along the belt axis.
A method of swinging on a swing assembly by a user, the swing assembly comprising
- a support frame extending upwardly from a ground and providing a pair of horizontally extending support bars,
- a belt with opposed ends supported by the pair of horizontally extending support bars and extending between the pair of horizontally extending support bars along a belt axis to define a length and extending below and between a front and rear of the support frame to define a width, the length and width of the belt sized to be capable of supporting the user,
- a seat plate of a rigid material supported by the belt and positioned between the pair of horizontally extending support bars, and
- at least one force plate of a rigid material supported by the belt and spaced from the seat plate and the opposed ends of the belt by joints capable of being flexed along the belt axis,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- mounting of the swing assembly by the user to sit on the seat plate;
- and
- applying a force on the at least one force plate by the user to flex the joints along the belt axis and to create a movement of the seat plate substantially along the belt axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.