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Device enabling persons, including handicapped persons to practise roller skating, skateboarding, ice skating, skiing, horse-riding and swimming, without falling or sinkingRelated Patent Categories: Exercise Devices, Involving User Translation Or Physical Simulation Thereof, Occupant Suspended From Above (e.g., By A Body Harness, Etc.) For Foot TravelDevice enabling persons, including handicapped persons to practise roller skating, skateboarding, ice skating, skiing, horse-riding and swimming, without falling or sinking description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060189453, Device enabling persons, including handicapped persons to practise roller skating, skateboarding, ice skating, skiing, horse-riding and swimming, without falling or sinking. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] Device allowing persons, even handicapped persons, to learn to practise roller skating, skateboarding, ice skating, skiing, horse riding and swimming without falling or sinking. TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention relates to a device which allows persons to learn, easily and without any risk of falling, to roller skate, skateboard, ice skate, ski on snow or on artificial pistes and also to learn to swim without any risk of sinking. [0003] Learning these disciplines often leads to falls, sometimes serious falls, in particular in the case of elderly people. Learning to swim often gives rise to the fear of sinking in people, in particular when they know that they are out of their depth. [0004] The device according to the invention allows all these disadvantages to be overcome. Its use has the advantage that the user never falls or sinks and thus learns without being in a permanent state of fear. Consequently, the user will learn much more quickly and without any risk how to practise the chosen sport. PRIOR ART [0005] Various means of ensuring the safety of persons when learning some sports already exist. In circus schools, pupils practising trick horse riding are provided with a harness which is provided with a ring. The supervisor holds a long cord which extends in a pulley which is located at height and at the centre of the track and the cord is secured to the ring of the harness. When the pupil is at risk of falling from the horse, the supervisor supports him and he is prevented from falling. Swimming instructors hold the pupil by means of a pole, at the end of which a cord is fitted which is attached to the harness of the pupil. In order to learn to ride a bicycle, the solution which has long been used consists in fitting a small wheel at each side of the rear wheel of the bicycle. At the start, the two small wheels touch the ground and, little by little, they are raised until the user moves without being supported on one or other of the small wheels. [0006] The device according to the invention allows the pupil to be put completely at ease and to improve in complete safety until he completely masters the technique and the practice of the selected discipline. DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [0007] The device according to the invention is depicted in a number of appended drawings which illustrate in detail the whole of the design of the device which is mainly composed of the following base elements: [0008] carriers each comprising two posts which are positioned vertically and which support a cross-piece which is held on the posts. Each cross-piece is provided, in the lower portion, with a plurality of securing plates in order to hold the rails by means of locking flanges. [0009] Rails which are held under the cross-pieces by locking flanges, the profile of these rails allowing roller type carriages to be held and displaced. [0010] Horizontal struts which connect the posts at the top and bottom and which hold them in a vertical position. [0011] Cross-bracing bars which are intended to strengthen the installation of the device. [0012] Roller type carriages, to which the straps intended to support the persons are attached. [0013] Straps which are adjustable in terms of length and which are provided with a resilient upper portion, which is fixed to the roller type carriages, and a spring hook in the lower portion which is attached to the harness worn by the persons. [0014] Safety harnesses which are worn by the persons and which are provided with a ring which allows the end of the strap to be attached by the spring hook. [0015] Low seats which are provided at the front of the base with two hollow indentations which are inclined so that the user can lock his skates whilst getting up. [0016] Signalling strips which are fixed to the ground at each side of the axis of the tracks. [0017] Obstacles, such as platforms having inclined planes or steps or jumps or uneven surfaces. [0018] Systems for audible signalling which are intended to inform partially sighted or blind persons of the proximity and the configuration of an obstacle to be overcome. [0019] The device according to the invention can comprise one or more rails, the length of the cross-pieces which hold the rails being longer or shorter. [0020] The device can comprise curved rails having larger or smaller radii and different lengths. These curved rails are held under the cross-pieces, in the same manner as the straight rails, with locking flanges. Whether the rails are straight or curved, the carriers remain identical. This device allows a winding circuit to be provided with straight lines, left-hand bends, right-hand bends and bends having larger or smaller radii. The installation of a device of this type is slightly similar to that of a racing circuit having a plurality of lanes for miniature remote-controlled cars. [0021] The variable configuration of the device according to the invention allows each user (sports schools, amusement parks, rental companies, fairgrounds . . . ) to be able to install a device ranging from the smallest to the largest, that is to say, a simple straight line or a circular or oval circuit, or a large winding circuit. [0022] The whole of the structure of the device according to the invention is preferably of light construction in order to be readily manoeuvrable and transportable. This light construction allows ease of assembly and disassembly, as in the case of scaffolds used in civil engineering or some carousels for fairgrounds. [0023] The device according to the invention can be positioned directly on the inclined bottom of a swimming pool or on the uneven bottom of a body of water. In these cases, the posts of the carriers are configured so as to be adjustable in terms of length by any telescopic system with locking in the correct position. [0024] The device according to the invention can be installed at the edge of a skating rink without being supported on the ice in order not to damage the ice. In this case, the carrier comprises only a single post and the cross-piece is self-supporting, the base of the post being securely bolted to anchoring pillars. The same principle can be used for an installation at the edge of a ski piste on snow or an artificial piste or at the edge of any body of water or at the edge of a swimming pool. [0025] The device according to the invention can be equipped at the top and at the sides with a rigid or flexible protection means. This equipment can be partially or completely opaque or transparent in order to allow more or less light to pass through. The positioning of this protection has the effect of protecting the persons using the device against bad weather and also of being able to retain the heat emitted by the heating system. This protection equipment, whether rigid or flexible, opaque or transparent, is designed in a manner which is simple to produce and so that it can be assembled and disassembled easily by persons without any special qualifications in this respect. [0026] A lighting system which is of any design and of any size can be installed along the circuit using the structure itself of the device according to the invention as a fixing support. This variant is particularly useful for uses of the device during night-time outside on a non-illuminated site. [0027] A heating system which is of any design and of any size can be installed along the circuit in its closed version. This installation can use the structure itself of the device according to the invention as a fixing support. This variant is particularly useful for uses of the device during cold periods and outdoors. [0028] The device according to the invention can be installed in the open air or inside large premises. In the latter case, the installation of the device is reduced to the simplest form thereof because it does not comprise any protection against bad weather, nor any lighting or heating systems. The device can be temporarily installed by simply being positioned on the ground or installed more fixedly by the base of the posts being fixed on anchoring pillars which are cemented in the ground. In both cases, the device is permanently able to be disassembled and recovered without any damage. [0029] Various variants which allow the device according to the invention to be used are provided for, without, however, departing from the scope of the invention. [0030] At some locations of the circuit and perpendicularly to a rail, there can be positioned a platform which has a given length and height and which comprises an inclined plane at the entrance and another at the exit. In this case, the rail located above the platform substantially conforms to the shape of the platform. In that manner, the pupil permanently remains safe when he passes the obstacle. [0031] Another version consists in constructing the platform, not with two inclined planes, but instead with several identical steps at the entrance and at the exit. The length and the height of that stepped platform are substantially identical to the platform having inclined planes. Consequently, the rail located above is identical for one version or the other. [0032] At some locations of the circuit and perpendicularly to a rail, there can be hollowed out an uneven portion having a length, depth and shape which are identical to the platform having inclined planes, when the platform is considered to be in the inverted state. This uneven portion can be configured with steps at the entrance and at the exit. In both of these cases, the rail located above that uneven portion is the same as that used in the two preceding versions, but it is mounted in an inverted state. Continue reading about Device enabling persons, including handicapped persons to practise roller skating, skateboarding, ice skating, skiing, horse-riding and swimming, without falling or sinking... 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