Portable inflatable structure

• US 5,669,858 A
• Filed: 10/23/1995
• Issued: 09/23/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Philip G. Chauvet, Rodney Lee Blair
• Original Assignee: Philip G. Chauvet, Rodney Lee Blair
• Inventors: Blair, Rodney Lee, Chauvet, Philip G.
• Primary Examiner(s): DONNELLY, JEROME W
• Application Number:
  US08/546,719
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 482/78, 482/127, 482/35, 280/206, 280/207, 472/134, 440/98, 440/99, 440/100, 440/21
• US Class Current: 482/78
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 19/02 Freely-movable rolling hoops, e.g. gyrowheels or spheres or cylinders, carrying the user inside resisting devices overcoming gyroscopic forces of rotating bodies A63B21/22; standing on it for equilibrium exercises A63B26/003
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/62 Inflatable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 5/11 Trampolines

Abstract

An inflatable structure having a trampoline-type floor with an inflatable framework projecting upwardly therefrom and having netting panels extending between adjacent portions of said framework to prevent a child from inadvertently bouncing out of the structure, with at least one of said panels having releasable fastening means to allow opening of said one of said panels as a door.

Claims

1. An inflatable recreational structure comprising:

a first pair of circular tubes mounted in parallel, spaced relation and joined by a supporting structure extending therbetween, and

a plurality of second tubes lying in planes perpendicular to the axes of said first pair of tubes and each joining said first pair of tubes, said plurality of second circular tubes meeting at a juncture point outside said first tubes and protecting beyond said fist tubes.

2. The inflatable structure of claim 1 further comprising:

safety harness means releasably connectable to said juncture to releasably attach a person to said structure.

3. The inflatable structure of claim 1 wherein:

said structure is sufficiently bouyant to support a person standing on said supporting structure even on water.

4. The structure of claim 1 wherein:

said supporting structure is formed of nylon webbing.

5. The device of claim 1 further comprising:

a pair of spider members connected to said second tubes, and

a chair rotatably suspended from said spider members.

6. The device of claim 5 further comprising:

a motor connected to rotate said second tubes.

7. The device of claim 5 further comprising:

means for preventing rotation of said chair with said second tubes.

8. The inflatable structure of claim 1 wherein:

said juncture point lies on a line passing through the centers of said first tubes.