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Rotating platform apparatus

  • US 5,549,536 A
  • Filed: 08/04/1995
  • Issued: 08/27/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A rotating platform apparatus, comprising:

  • a) a base formed of an annular ring supporting at least three legs, which are secured at one end to the annular ring, and at the other end to an inclined collet having an inclined collet aperture therethrough, the inclined collet further having an upper end and a lower end, a tapered bearing race is disposed upon the upper end of the inclined collet in concentric alignment with the inclined collet aperture; and

    b) an inclined platform having a top side and an under side with a circumferential edge located between the top side and the underside, forming a substantially circular configuration of a size suitable to support a user thereon, the under side of the inclined platform having a shaft secured about an axis of rotation, perpendicular to the underside of the inclined platform, the shaft sized to be rotatably received within a tapered bearing upon the upper end of the inclined collet, and extending within the inclined collet aperture to rotatably engage a lower bushing located at the lower end of the inclined collet.

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