Slide apparatus and method
OwnerRobert Powell Todinventor
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Abstract
A slide (10) with a pair of suspension cables (12) and flexible material (14) connected to the cables (12). At least one lift (16) and one fall (18) is provided in the slide (10) from beginning to end. In the preferred embodiments, slide (10) includes lifts (16), falls (18), tunnels, loops and curves. Additionally, in a preferred embodiment, free hanging spreader bars (70) are provided to hold suspension cables (12) and flexible material (14) in their original spaced apart hanging position.
Claims20
A slide apparatus wherein a user slides in a downward direction, the slide comprising:
- (a) at least a pair of suspension cables;
- (b) a flexible material connected to said suspension cables;
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- (c) at least one lift means for temporarily changing a user's direction from down to up and at least one fall.
In a water slide with a high end and a low end wherein a user slides in a downward direction with water introduced at the high end, a cabled tarp water slide apparatus comprising:
- (a) a pair of oppositely positioned cables;
- (b) a tarp hung between said cables;
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- (c) at least one lift means for temporarily changing a user's direction from down to up.
A water slide method comprising the steps of:
- (a) connecting a pair of oppositely positioned cables to cable supports at a high end of a water slide and to cable supports at a low end of said water slide;
- (b) connecting a tarp on and between said of pair of oppositely positioned cables;
- (c) providing at least one lift and one fall in said tarp;
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- (d) adding water to said tarp at said high end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.