Children's swing
AssigneeHedstrom Corporation
InventorsJoel C. Cunard, Robert J. Boudreau
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Abstract
A children's swing has an elongated beam with opposite ends and a mid portion providing a seating platform for at least two children. Pivotally attached to the opposite ends of the beam are a pair of rigid rockers, each rocket having an upper end defining hand grips and a lower end defining a foot rest. To use the rocker, the children sit on the beam back with their hands and feet on the hand grips and foot rests of the rockers in front of them. When the children rock the rockers in synchronism, the swing will swing to and fro with ever increasing amplitude due to the inertia of the children's limbs and changes in the included angles between the rockers and the beam.
Claims18
A children's swing comprising
- a swing platform;
- elongated suspension means having opposite ends;
- connecting means for connecting one end of the suspension means to the swing platform;
- a bracket for securing the other end of the suspension means to a wood support beam, said bracket being constituted by a rigid unitary sheet metal having a generally trapezoidal main section, a flange extending from the base of the main section for positioning flat against a support beam, a pair of spaced-apart ears extending from the sides of the main section for bracketing said other end of suspension means, means defining a pair of flange holes in said flange and means defining aligned ear holes in said pair of ears, said ear holes defining a pivot axis that extends between said pair of ears parallel to said flange, and
- fastener means for extending through said ear holes into said other end of the suspension means.
A children's swing comprising
- a swing platform;
- first and second hanger means each having upper and lower ends;
- connector means connecting the lower end of each hanger means to said swing platform;
- suspension means connecting the upper ends of said first and second hanger means to an overhead horizontal wood support beam, said suspension means including a pair of mirror-image brackets for positioning on opposite sides of the support beam, each bracket having a main section with a pair of laterally spaced-apart ears extending from the main section and bracketing a different one of the two suspension means and an integral upstanding flange which is angled with respect to the main section and ears such that when the flange engages flat against the adjacent side of the support beams, the ears of each bracket are substantially vertical, means defining a pair of flange openings in each of said flanges, and means defining aligned ear openings in the pair of ears of each bracket, and
- fastener means extending through the ear openings of each bracket into the hanger means bracketed by the ears of each bracket.
A children's swing comprising
- an elongated horizontal wood support beam;
- a child support;
- a pair of elongated hangers having upper and lower ends;
- means for connecting the lower ends of the hangers to the child support at spaced-apart locations thereon, and
- suspension means for connecting the upper ends of the hangers to said support beam, said suspension means including
- a pair of mirror-image brackets positioned on opposite sides of aid support beam, each bracket having a generally trapezoidal main section, a generally vertical flange extending from the base of the main section and positioned flat against the corresponding side of the support beam, a pair of laterally spaced-apart ears extending from the sides of the main section and bracketing the other end of a different one of the hangers, means defining a pair of flange holes in each bracket flange, the corresponding flange holes of the two brackets being in substantial alignment, and means defining aligned ear holes in the pair of ears of each bracket, said ear holes of each bracket defining a horizontal pivot axis;
- threaded fasteners extending through the flange openings of each bracket into the support beam, and
- fastener means extending through the ear holes of each pair of ears and the other end of the associated hanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.