Claims
- 1. A movable recreational equipment device including:
- a tubular enclosure having opposite open ends;
- a support for suspending the tubular enclosure above a floor surface;
- the support and tubular enclosure being connected to one another to permit rocking movement of the tubular enclosure on the support through the movement of an occupant within the tubular enclosure;
- means for leveling the tubular enclosure on the support following the conclusion of the rocking movement; and
- complementary flexible tube having one end connected to one open end of the tubular enclosure.
- 2. The device as defined in claim 1 in which a complementary tubular element is connected to a second end of each of the flexible tubes to provide a recreational play system environment.
- 3. The device as defined in claim 1 in which the tubular enclosure is an octagonal shaped element.
- 4. The device as defined in claim 1 in which the tubular enclosure includes spaced elongated rods extending in the same direction and located on a lower area of the tubular enclosure for pivotal mounting relative to a supporting rod on the support that extends generally transverse to the spaced elongated rods.
- 5. The device as defined in claim 4 in which the means for leveling the tubular enclosure includes generally opposed spaced coil springs.
- 6. The device as defined in claim 5 in Which one end of each of the spaced coil springs engage one of the spaced elongated rods.
- 7. The device as defined in claim 6 in which a second end of each of the coil springs is attached to a floor surface.
- 8. The device as defined in claim 7 in which a second end of each of the coil springs is attached to other fixed components of the support.
- 9. A movable recreational equipment device, including:
- a tubular enclosure having opposite open ends;
- a support for suspending the tubular enclosure above a floor surface;
- spaced elongated rods extending in the same direction and projecting from a lower area of the tubular enclosure;
- the support including a supporting rod extending generally transversely to and positioned below the spaced elongated rods;
- the spaced elongated rods being pivotally mounted to the supporting rod to facilitate rocking movement of the tubular enclosure on the support through the movement of an occupant within the tubular enclosure; and
- a coil spring connected at one end to one elongated rod on each side of the tubular enclosure and extending in generally opposite direction to each other, a second end of each coil spring being connected to a fixed surface,
- whereby the coil springs level the tubular enclosure following the conclusion of the rocking movement.
- 10. The device as defined in claim 9 in which the fixed surface is a floor surface.
- 11. The device as defined in claim 9 in which the fixed surface is part of a fixed component of the support.
- 12. The device as defined in claim 9 in which the tubular enclosure is octagonally shaped with eight surfaces, and each of the spaced elongated rods being mounted to one of the interconnected surfaces of the tubular enclosure.
- 13. The device as defined in claim 12 in which each one of the spaced elongated rods are mounted to interconnected surfaces along a lower area of the octagonally shaped tubular enclosure.
- 14. The device as defined in claim 9 in which the supporting rod is connected to and rests on top of spaced supporting rod sections that are interconnected to each other by an interconnecting rod section that extends generally parallel to the supporting rod, the interconnecting rod sections and supporting rod sections being supported above a floor surface.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This is a co-pending patent application of the following commonly assigned utility patent applications: Ser. No. 08/634,044, filed Jun. 13, 1996 entitled VERTICALLY MOVABLE RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT DEVICE; Ser. No. 08/633,587, filed Apr. 17, 1996 entitled LATERALLY MOVABLE RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT DEVICE still pending; Ser. No. 08/633,662, filed Apr. 17, 1996 entitled MOVABLE OCCUPANT DIRECTED RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT DEVICE still pending; Ser. No. 08/633,462, filed Apr. 17, 1996, entitled MULTIDIRECTIONAL MOVABLE RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT DEVICE still pending; and Design Patent Application Ser. No. 29/055,394, filed Jun. 5, 1996 entitled MOVING RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT COMPONENT now U.S. Design Pat. No. D381,384.
US Referenced Citations (10)
Non-Patent Literature Citations (2)
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Miracle Recreation Equipment Company 1995 Park & Playground Catalog, pp. 79-80. |
Soft Play, L.L.C.'s 1995 "Value Series" brochure dated 1995. |