Patent Application
20240165488
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The disclosure relates to skating assist systems and more particularly pertains to a new skating assist system for facilitating skating on a sheet of ice.
The prior art relates to skating assist systems and includes a variety of systems having a sheet of ice for the user to ice skate on. The prior art further includes a variety of systems having a support to stabilize the user in an upright position. Known prior art does not include a support having a closed loop attached to a plurality of legs and a brace to reinforce each of the legs and have a removable strap for inhibiting the user from falling on the sheet of ice.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a sheet of ice and a support configured to facilitate upright stabilization of a person on the sheet of ice. The support includes a plurality of legs equally spaced laterally from each other and from a vertical center axis about which the plurality of legs is positioned. The support further includes a plurality of feet and a closed loop attached to each of the legs. A brace is coupled to each of the legs to reinforce a position of the legs with respect to each other. A strap is removably attached to the support and is configured for inhibiting the person from falling on the sheet of ice.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A closed loop 34 is attached to each of the legs 18 and is positioned adjacent to the top ends 24 of each of the legs 18. The closed loop 34 is at an apex of the support 14 and provides a graspable area for the person 16. The closed loop 34 will typically have a circular shape and be positioned between the inner 26 and outer 28 walls of each of the legs 18. A brace 36 is coupled to each of the legs 18 to reinforce a position of the legs 18 with respect to each other and may be spaced between the closed loop 34 and the bottom ends 22 of the legs 18. The brace 36 is a continuous loop and may have a hexagon shape or a triangle shape. The brace 36 is positioned between the inner 26 and outer 28 walls of each of the legs 18. The closed loop 34 and the brace 36 may each have a cover 38 comprising a resiliently compressible material such as foam.
A strap 40 is removably attached to the support 14 and is configured for inhibiting the person 16 from falling on the sheet of ice 12. The strap 40 has a first end 42 and a second end 44. The first end 42 has a coupler 46 for removably securing to the inner wall 26 of one of the legs 18 and the coupler 46 may comprise a bolt and nut assembly. The second end 44 may have a buckle 48 for removably fastening the second end 44 around the closed loop 34.
In use, the feet 30 of the legs 18 of the support 14 will be positioned on the sheet of ice 12 and the person 16 will be positioned within the vertical center axis 20 of the support 14. The person 16 begins to skate on the sheet of ice 12 while being stabilized in an upright position by grabbing onto the closed loop 34 of the support 14. The strap 40 may be attached to the support 14 to catch the person 16 from falling onto the sheet of ice 12 when the person 16 loses their balance.
With respect to the description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
