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US 5,842,927 AGranted
Children's slide with integral raceways
AssigneeHedstrom Corporation
InventorFred Rieber
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Abstract
A children's slide has an elongated trough supported in an inclined position. The trough includes side walls which not only help to guide children down the slide, but also define inclined raceways for toy cars or the like which children can race down the slide.
Claims8
A children's slide comprising
- an elongated trough having a slide bottom wall with opposite ends and a pair of opposite slide side walls extending up from the slide bottom wall to slide top walls, and
- an unobstructed raceway in at least one of the slide top walls, each raceway including a raceway bottom wall having a substantially straight transverse crossection, and upper end wall extending up from the raceway bottom wall to the corresponding slide top wall and a pair of raceway side walls extending up from the raceway bottom wall to the corresponding slide top wall so as to define an elongated racing track for a toy vehicle.
A children's slide comprising
- a pair of elongated parallel channels, each channel having a generally inverted U-shaped crossection composed of inner and outer side walls connected by a top wall;
- a slide surface having opposite ends and connecting said inner side walls so that the channels constitute side walls for said surface;
- an elongated depression in the top wall of at least one of said channels said depression having opposite ends and defining a racing track for a toy vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.