Therapeutic or play device and method of use
OwnerDimitra Baveasinventor
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Abstract
A therapeutic or play device that provides a user with a sense of spatial orientation and/or sensory feedback or input such as people with autism/sensory processing disorders.
Claims12
A therapeutic or play assembly comprising a therapeutic or play device and a planar base, the therapeutic or play device including a substantially planar, multidirectional resilient, flexible sheet of material with a pair of attachment mechanisms, and wherein the pair of attachment mechanisms extend continuously along an entirety of each of a pair of opposed parallel side edges respectively to allow the sheet of material to be attached relative to a surface of the planar base at two spaced apart connection points to form a restricting or confining volume with an entry and an exit at opposed ends of the sheet of material with a resistance applied across the entry and the exit perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of each of the pair of attachment mechanisms, the entry and the exit are elastically deformable requiring at least partial deformation of the sheet of material for entry and exit and wherein the resistance applied is variable across the sheet of material based on a distance between the two spaced apart connection points, wherein at least a portion of an underside of the sheet of material is provided in a different configuration to provide different sensory effect in the form of touch on the underside, wherein one or more materials of construction of the sheet of material are chosen to provide a particular sensory effect in the form of touch, and wherein each of the pair of attachment mechanisms is a hook portion;
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- the surface of the planar base comprises loop portions reciprocal to the hook portion;
- wherein, when the therapeutic or play device is attached to the planar base, the pair of attachment mechanisms and the sheet of material are substantially in the same plane.
A method of using a therapeutic or play device, the therapeutic or play device including a substantially planar, multidirectional resilient, flexible sheet of material with a pair of attachment mechanisms extending continuously along an entirety of each of a pair of opposed parallel side edges respectively, the method comprising:
- attaching the sheet of material relative to a surface provided by a planar base having loop portions at two spaced apart connection points to form a restricting or confining volume with an entry and an exit at opposed ends of the sheet of material with a resistance applied across the entry and the exit perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of each of the pair of attachment mechanisms, the entry and the exit are elastically deformable requiring at least partial deformation of the sheet of material for entry and exit and wherein the resistance applied is variable across the sheet of material based on a distance between the two spaced apart connection points, wherein at least a portion of an underside of the sheet of material is provided in a different configuration in order to provide different sensory effect in the form of touch on the underside, and wherein one or more materials of construction of the sheet of material are chosen to provide a particular sensory effect in the form of touch, and wherein each of the pair of attachment mechanisms a hook portion,
- wherein, when the therapeutic or play device is attached to the planar base, the pair of attachment mechanisms and the sheet of material are substantially in the same plane.
A therapeutic or play assembly comprising a therapeutic or play device and a planar base,
- the therapeutic or play device including a substantially planar, multidirectional resilient, flexible sheet of material with a pair of attachment mechanisms, and wherein the pair of attachment mechanisms extend continuously along an entirety of each of a pair of opposed parallel side edges respectively to allow the sheet of material to be attached relative to a surface of the planar base at two spaced apart connection points to form a restricting or confining volume with an entry and an exit at opposed ends of the sheet of material with a resistance applied across the entry and the exit perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of each of the pair of attachment mechanisms, the entry and the exit are elastically deformable requiring at least partial deformation of the sheet of material for entry and exit and wherein the resistance applied is variable across the sheet of material based on a distance between the two spaced apart connection points, wherein at least a portion of an underside of the sheet of material is provided in a different configuration to provide different sensory effect in the form of touch on the underside, wherein one or more materials of construction of the sheet of material are chosen to provide a particular sensory effect in the form of touch, and wherein each of the pair of attachment mechanisms is a hook portion;
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- the surface of the planar base comprises loop portions reciprocal to the hook portion, and wherein the planar base is entirely planar;
- wherein, when the therapeutic or play device is attached to the planar base, the pair of attachment mechanisms and the sheet of material are substantially in the same plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.