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US 5,865,680 AGranted
Kinetic interactive play structure
OwnerRick A. Briggsinventor
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An interactive play structure is provided for facilitating team-oriented or group interactive play to achieve a common desired effect. The play structure includes a number of play elements disposed at various locations and elevations throughout the play structure. Each play element can be activated or operated by one or more play participants to complete one of several necessary steps in a chain of triggering events resulting in energy being transferred from one play element to the next. The overall completion of the chain of events results in a common desired result or effect, such as a domino-like cascade of various mechanisms, balls, water and/or the like. Play participants achieve the final goal through a collective team effort requiring the coordinated completion of several smaller objectives comprising each necessary step in the chain of triggering events.
An interactive play structure comprising:
An interactive play structure capable of supporting one or more play participants thereon comprising a human-sized Rube Goldberg contraption, including a plurality of human-operated devices, such as squirrel cages, treadmills, conveyers, levers, pulleys, gears, balance beams, water wheels, windmills and/or other mechanical, electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic devices capable of receiving or transferring kinetic energy, said devices being operably connected to one another and arranged in a predetermined sequence such that each said device must be operated in said predetermined sequence to cause a desired event or chain of events to occur.
An interactive play structure comprising:
An interactive play structure comprising:
An interactive play structure comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.