Trampoline having a jumping bed with elastic straps for supporting the same on trampoline frame

• US 6,129,649 A
• Filed: 01/18/2000
• Issued: 10/10/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yen-Shuo Yang
• Original Assignee: Yen-Shuo Yang
• Inventors: Yang, Yen-Shuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen R.
• Application Number:
  US09/484,528
• Time in Patent Office: 266 Days
• Field of Search: 482/27, 482/28, 482/35, 5/110, 5/111, 52/99.1, 52/100
• US Class Current: 482/27
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 5/11 Trampolines

Abstract

A trampoline includes a trampoline frame with a leg portion and a looped frame portion mounted on the leg portion. A jumping bed includes a bed member with a dimension smaller than that of a bed mounting space confined by the looped frame portion. An elastic support unit has a plurality of folded elastic straps, each with opposite hooking ends secured to a peripheral portion of the bed member and an intermediate section confining a passage for extension of the looped frame portion therethrough, thereby suspending elastically the bed member relative to the looped frame portion. A looped protective covering has an upper covering portion with an inner peripheral section secured to an upper surface of the peripheral portion of the bed member, and an outer peripheral section that extends above the looped frame portion so as to be disposed outwardly and laterally of the looped frame portion. The protective covering further has a lower covering portion that extends from the outer peripheral section of the upper covering portion and that has an inner peripheral section extending below the looped frame portion, and a looped elastic band secured on the inner peripheral section of the lower covering portion.

Claims

1. A trampoline comprising:

a trampoline frame including a leg portion adapted to be disposed uprightly on a ground surface, and a looped frame portion mounted on top of said leg portion so as to be supported spacedly from and parallel to the ground surface, said looped frame portion confining a bed mounting space therewithin; and

a jumping bed including a bed member with a peripheral portion and of a dimension smaller than that of said bed mounting space,

an elastic support unit having a plurality of folded elastic straps, each of said elastic straps having opposite hooking ends secured to said peripheral portion of said bed member and an intermediate section confining a passage for extension of said looped frame portion therethrough, thereby suspending elastically said bed member relative to said looped frame portion, and

a looped protective covering having an upper covering portion with an inner peripheral section secured to an upper surface of said peripheral portion of said bed member, and an outer peripheral section that extends above said looped frame portion so as to be disposed outwardly and laterally of said looped frame portion, said protective covering further having a lower covering portion that extend from said outer peripheral section of said upper covering portion and that has an inner peripheral section extending below said looped frame portion, and a looped elastic band secured on said inner peripheral section of said lower covering portion such that said inner peripheral section of said lower covering portion is anchored elastically on said looped frame portion.

2. The trampoline as defined in claim 1, wherein said peripheral portion of said bed member has a plurality of spaced apart hook-engaging tabs attached thereto, said hooking ends of said elastic straps being hooked to said hook-engaging tabs.

3. The trampoline as defined in claim 2, wherein each of said hook-engaging tabs has a pair of eyelets provided thereon, said hooking ends of each of said elastic straps being hooked to an adjacent pair of said eyelets in an adjacent pair of said hook-engaging tabs.

4. The trampoline as defined in claim 2, wherein each of said hook-engaging tabs is provided with a ring fastener for engaging said hooking ends of a respective one of said elastic straps.

5. The trampoline as defined in claim 1, wherein said peripheral portion of said bed member is provided with a plurality of eyelets therealong, said hooking ends of each of said elastic straps being hooked to an adjacent pair of said eyelets.