Ski lift chair map
OwnerPeter DeMasiinventor
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Abstract
The safety guard of a ski lift chair is provided with a rotatable cylinder which bears a ski trail map on its periphery. The cylinder, formed of foam, is slit radially on one side from a central hole rotatably mounting it on the cross-bar of the safety guard having a pull-down position in front of the seated skier. The trail map is on a sheet longer than the periphery of the cylinder and has it ends tucked into the cylinder slit to hold the map sheet in place. The cylinder can be rotated by the gloved skier to view the full length of the trails leading from the top of the particular ski lift. It may also be slid laterally on the cross-bar for viewing by other passengers.
Claims18
In a ski lift chair having a safety bar swung down from overhead after a gloved skier has been loaded onto the chair to a position disposing its cross-bar in front of the now seated skier, an elongated element mounted on the cross-bar and freely rotatable thereon by the gloved hand of the skier and having an axially extending surface, and a map showing ski trails heading downhill from near the top of the particular ski lift located on the outside of the elongated and rotatable element axially extending surface, wherein the elongated and rotatable element is a cylinder, wherein the cylinder is a solid.
In a ski lift chair having a safety bar swung down from overhead after a gloved skier has been loaded onto the chair to a position disposing its cross-bar in front of the now seated skier, an elongated element mounted on the cross-bar and freely rotatable thereon by the gloved hang of the skier and axially extending surface, and a map showing ski trails heading downhill from near the top of the particular ski lift located on the outside of the elongated and rotatable element axially extending surface, wherein the elongated and rotatable element is a solid and has flat faces on its axially extending surface.
In a method for placing a trail map sheet longer than the periphery of a slit solid foam cylinder rotatable on the round cross-bar of the safety guard of a ski lift chair that is swung down from overhead after a gloved skier has been loaded onto the chair to a position disposing the cross-bar in front of a then seated skier where he may view the trail map and rotate it, placing the sheet on the cylinder and so that its ends overlap the slit, spreading the slit apart from a normally closed position, inserting the ends of the trail map sheet into the slit, and allowing the slit to reclose and secure the trail map sheet in place on the cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.