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US 5,330,400 AGranted
Climbing and play structure
OwnerJoseph G. Hubermaninventor
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Abstract
A climbing and play structure having an external rigid polyhedral support structure constructed of rigid compressive members, which acts as an exterior support for a network of primary and secondary tensile members, such as rope-like materials and flexible planar surfaces which may be within and on the surface of the structure.
Claims15
A climbing and play structure,
- (a) a support surface on which said climbing and play structure is placed;
- (b) an outer rigid support structure comprising sloping compressive beams and having lower vertices between said sloping compressive beams and said support surface, and an upper vertex formed where the upper ends of at least three sloping compressive beams slope toward a single point and are joined to each other, said outer rigid support structure forming a polyhedral shape;
- (c) a primary inner network comprising primary tensile members roughly paralleling said sloping compressive beams and said support surface, each of said primary tensile members being connected to other tensile members at the interior of said vertices, wherein at least three primary tensile members are connected to each other at the interior of said upper vertex, said primary inner network forming faces along sides of said network between said primary tensile members;
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- (d) a secondary inner network comprising secondary tensile members forming a pattern on one or more of said faces.
2 more elements
A climbing and play structure according to claim 7, wherein said flexible planar surface has peripherally attached webbing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.