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US 4,379,551 AGranted
Playground tube slide
AssigneeMiracle Recreation Equipment Company
InventorPaul W. Ahrens
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Abstract
A tube slide includes a straight metal tube section connected through a radially extending flange to a 90.degree. curved section formed from identical half sections connected together by mating laterally extending flanges being fastened. The curved section is of fiberglass and includes a shingled bed of metal members matingly engaging the top surface of the bottom half section.
Claims7
A playground tube slide comprising,
- an elevated deck,
- a bed extending from said deck to the ground,
- said bed including a curved tube section having top and bottom half sections interconnected by fastening means engaging laterally outwardly extending flanges along the length of said top and bottom half sections of said curved tube section,
- said bed including at least one other section which includes a laterally extending arcuate end flange connected to an adjacent laterally extending arcuate end flange on said curved tube section,
- said curved tube section extending in one direction and being adapted to be turned in the opposite direction by rotating said curved tube section relative to said other section,
- said half sections of said curved tube section being identical and each including said arcuate end flange at each end, and
- the bottom section of said curved tube section including a series of shingled metal bed members overlaying the inside surface of said bottom section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.