Patent Application
20220081892
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The disclosure relates to support assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new support assembly for hanging exercising and training apparatus.
The prior art relates to support assemblies. Prior art support assemblies may comprise interconnectable posts and beams.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pair of vertical elements and a horizontal element. The horizontal element is configured to selectively engage upper ends of the vertical elements so that the two vertical elements extend perpendicularly and codirectionally from opposed ends of the horizontal element to a surface. The horizontal element thus is configured to hang exercising or training apparatus therefrom.
The vertical elements are two of a plurality of vertical elements and the horizontal element is one of a plurality of horizontal elements. Each vertical element is configured to selectively engage respective opposed ends of two horizontal elements so that the two horizontal elements extend perpendicularly from the upper end of the vertical element. The set of horizontal elements and the set of vertical elements thus are selectively positionable in a variety of rectangular configurations.
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
As best illustrated in
The vertical elements 12 are two of a plurality of vertical elements 12 and the horizontal element 14 is one of a plurality of horizontal elements 14. Each vertical element 12 is configured to selectively engage respective opposed ends 16 of two horizontal elements 14 so that the two horizontal elements 14 extend perpendicularly from the upper end 18 of the vertical element 12. The set of horizontal elements 14 and the set of vertical elements 12 thus are selectively positionable in a variety of rectangular configurations, as in
Each vertical element 12 comprises a pair of frames 20, which are hingedly interconnected so that the pair of frames 20 is selectively positionable in a folded configuration and a deployed configuration, as shown in
Each frame 20 comprises a pair of end beams 22 and a set of crossbeams 24. Each crossbeam 24 is engaged to and extends perpendicularly between the end beams 22 of the pair of end beams 22 so that the frame 20 is rectangularly shaped. The set of crossbeams 24 comprises two crossbeams 24, which are positioned singly proximate to the upper end 18 and a lower end 26 of the vertical element 12. Each end beam 22 has a channel 28 extending thereinto from an upper limit 30 thereof.
Each horizontal element 14 comprises a pair of trusses 32 and a plurality of crossbars 34, with each crossbar 34 being engaged to and extending perpendicularly between the trusses 32. The horizontal element 14 also may comprise a set of gussets 36, with each gusset 36 being engaged to a respective truss 32 proximate to a respective opposed end 16 of the horizontal element 14, as shown in
Each truss 32 has a pair of pins 38 is engaged thereto and extending therefrom. The pins 38 are positioned at opposed endpoints 40 of the truss. Each pin 38 is positioned for insertion into a respective channel 28, as shown in
Each of a plurality of rods 42 is hingedly engaged to a respective vertical element 12 and can be extended transversely to the surface upon which the vertical element 12 is positioned, as shown in
The rod 42 has a plate 44 hingedly engaged thereto distally from the respective vertical element 12, as shown in
In use, the plurality of vertical elements 12 and the plurality of horizontal elements 14 are assembled into a rectangular configuration by inserting the pins 38 into the channels 28 to engage the horizontal elements 14 to the vertical elements 12. The rods 42 are positioned to extend between the vertical elements 12 and the surface. The spikes 48 are inserted through the holes 46 into the surface to stabilize the assembly 10. The exercising or training apparatus then can be hung from the horizontal elements 14.
With respect to the above 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 elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
