US 8,500,605 B2Granted

Apparatus and method for temporary mounting of a hangboard

AssigneeRyan Skippr

InventorRyan M. Skipper

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Abstract

An assembly for mounting of a hangboard includes first and second brackets each having first and second opposing end regions and a first elongate member having first and second spaced apart connection points configured for attachment to the first end regions of the first and second brackets. A second elongate member has third and fourth spaced apart connection points configured for simultaneous attachment to the first and second brackets. The second elongate member has a third connection point configured for attachment at a point along a portion of the first bracket between the first and second end regions thereof; and the fourth connection point configured for attachment at a point along a portion of the second bracket between the first and second end regions thereof. When the first and second members are so attached the assembly can be suspended within a wall opening.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A removable assembly for providing temporary mounting of a hangboard in a walkthrough opening, such as a doorway formed above a floor and along a wall having first and second opposing sides, the wall including a supportive strip positioned above the opening along the first side of the wall, the removable assembly comprising:

a first member configured to be placed over the strip and along the first side of the wall when mounting the hangboard;
a second member configured for attachment to the first member when the assembly is in a deployed configuration wherein the second member can be positioned across the opening and against the second side of the wall while the first member is positioned over the strip;
and
a third member configured for attachment to the second member in the deployed configuration;
at least a fourth member configured to connect or attach the first, second and third members to one another to effect the deployed configuration so that, when the first member is positioned over the strip and the second member is positioned against the second side of the wall, a load is transferable from the third member through the fourth member to the wall so that when
(i) the removeable assembly is positioned with the first member over the strip and the second member against the second side of the wall,
(ii) and the hangboard is attached to the third member:
the hangboard is supported above the floor by the removable assembly.

5 more elements

A method of providing a removable assembly useful for temporary mounting of a hangboard in a walkthrough opening, such as a doorway formed above a floor and along a wall having first and second opposing sides, the wall including a supportive strip positioned above the opening along the first side of the wall, the method comprising:

providing a first member configured to be placed over the strip and along the first side of the wall for mounting of the hangboard;
providing a second member configured for attachment to the first member when the assembly is in a deployed configuration wherein the second member is positioned across the opening and against the second side of the wall while the first member is positioned over the strip;
and
providing a third member configured for attachment to the second member when the assembly is in the deployed configuration;
providing at least a fourth member configured to connect or attach the first, second and third members to one another to effect the deployed configuration so that, when the first member is positioned over the strip and the second member is positioned against the second side of the wall, a load is transferable from the third member through the fourth member to the wall so that when
(i) the removeable assembly is positioned with the first member over the strip and the second member against the second side of the wall,
(ii) and the hangboard is attached to the third member:
the hangboard is supported above the floor by the removable assembly.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/490,911Filed 7 Jun 2012 · continuation
Priority: 1 Apr 2010
Published: US 2012/0241570 A127 Sep 2012
Granted: 6 Aug 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A63B 69/0048
Training appliances or apparatus for special sports: for mountaineering, e.g. climbing-walls, grip elements for climbing-walls
A63B 21/00047
Exercising apparatus for developing or strengthening the muscles or joints of the body by working against a counterforce, with or without…:…
A63B 21/068
User-manipulated weights: using user's body weight
A63B 21/1636
On a door or a door frame: for anchoring on the horizontal part of a door frame

Family

Application12/752,906Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 1 Apr 2010
Application13/039,556Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Mar 2011
US 2012/0241570 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Sep 2012
US 8,206,273 B2Parent of this continuation
US 8,206,270 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application13/039,556Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2011/0240808 A1Published application
US 2011/0245040 A1Published application
US 8,500,605 B2This patent

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