Mobile bungy jump apparatus and method for operating the same
AssigneeGo Bungy International Pte. Ltd.
InventorBeau Retallick
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide for a mobile bungy jump apparatus which comprises a wheeled vehicle, e.g. truck, and a jump-off platform carried by the wheeled vehicle through a retractable apparatus coupled to the wheeled vehicle, wherein the jump-off platform retractable apparatus is configured to at least move between a non bungy jumping position and a bungy jumping position, and wherein retractable apparatus includes a jump-off platform and a rigging frame or equivalent to which a bungy cord tethering a bungy jumper may be attached.
Claims23
A mobile bungy jump apparatus comprising:
- a wheeled vehicle chassis;
- a retractable apparatus mounted on the wheeled vehicle chassis for providing a jump-off platform with a first stowed position for transportation or a first extended position for off-bridge access,
- the jump-off platform movably coupled to the retractable apparatus and storable substantially within a footprint of the wheeled vehicle chassis when the jump-off platform is in the first stowed position, and extendable from the retractable apparatus when the retractable jump-off platform is in the first extended position for bungy jumping;
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- a rigging frame fixedly coupled to the jump-off platform and configured to be secured to an end of a bungy cord having another end securable to a bungy jumper;
- wherein the retractable pparatos includes:
- an intermediate section extendable relative to the wheeled vehicle chassis;
- and an end section movably coupled thereto, wherein the jump-off platform is movably coupled to the end section.
A method of operating a mobile bungy apparatus which comprises:
- a wheeled vehicle chassis;
- a retractable apparatus mounted on the wheeled vehicle chassis;
- a jump-off platform movably coupled to the retractable apparatus;
- and a rigging frame fixedly coupled to the jump-off platform, the method comprising:
- while maintaining the retractable apparatus in a second stowed position, arranging the mobile bungy jump apparatus at a current bungy jump site;
- arranging the jump-off platform in a first extended position for bungy jumping;
- securing an end of a bungy cord to the rigging frame and securing another end of the bungy cord to a bungy jumper;
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- facilitating a jumping of the bungy jumper from the jump-off platform;
- wherein arranging the retractable apparatus in the second extended position includes:
- extending an intermediate section of the retractable apparatus relative to the wheeled vehicle chassis, wherein an end section is movably coupled to the intermediate section, wherein the jump-off platform is movably coupled to the end section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.