DK178272B1 - sports Gear - Google Patents

Abstract

A multi-function sports tool (1) is described. The sports equipment (1) comprises one or more wall elements (2), wherein at least one of the wall elements (2) comprises means (11, 12) for attaching one or more other sports tools to the first sports tool (1). The sports equipment (1) is positioned above its level for a floor surface (5) and the sports equipment 81) comprises means for fully or partially submerging the sports equipment below floor level (5), a top surface (3) of the sports equipment forming part of the the floor surface (5) when the sports equipment (1) is placed in its storage position and raise the sports equipment (1) to a position of use. This construction makes it easier to set up sports equipment without heavy manual work.

Description

Field of Invention Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a sports tool having one or more wall elements, wherein at least one of the wall elements comprises means for attaching one or more other sports tools to the first sports tool.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

When practicing various sports, including especially gymnastics, and setting up various indoor obstacle courses, e.g. for the pursuit of parcour, various tools are used.

An example of this type of sports gear is shown in WO 2011/141254 A. This describes a system for exercising parcour, in which various toe or block-shaped gear is connected to other gear, e.g. ladders, climbing nets, balance booms, etc. The toe or block shaped parts typically have lockable wheels and are typically pushed or pulled from a separate storage room into the gym or hall. The other tools are carried from the storage room. The implements are fastened to the walls of the blocks in specially designed holes that secure the implements. The tools may be used. locks into the holes to prevent the implement from accidentally falling from the block-shaped implement while a user is using the implement.

These tools are usually stored in a storage room, also called utility room, and retrieved when used, which involves a considerable amount of time spent in setting up the tools and, moreover, requires some capacity in the storage room, as the towers and blocks in particular fill part during storage. .

In addition, this system involves some manual, heavy work of pushing or pulling, the blocks and / or towers prior to setting up the sports gear, e.g. an obstacle course. This is partly due to the weight of the blocks / towers and partly that the towers and blocks often contain ballast material, e.g. sandbags to prevent them from tipping over during use.

In addition, such tools are of limited use because they cannot be adapted to the target audience to use them, and it is therefore necessary to obtain tools of various sizes for boom and adult.

The tower or block shaped elements are bulky and require a lot of storage space. This means, for example, that the gym's tool room, which usually has limited storage capacity, quickly becomes insufficient when storing systems with many individual parts, in addition to traditionally used sports equipment.

Apart from the fact that such systems require manual installation, they also have a limited use, since the individual parts are used exclusively as sports equipment and do not have a secondary use.

The object of the invention

It is the object of the invention to provide sports tools which are easy to set up prior to use and which require a minimum of manual work in connection with the erection of, for example, obstacle courses.

It is thus also the object of the invention to provide sports equipment which, in addition to being used as sports equipment, also has a secondary application.

Furthermore, the object of the invention is to provide sports gear that can be adjusted in height to the group of users who will use the tool.

Description of the Invention

The invention, as mentioned at the outset, relates to a sports tool with one or more wall elements, wherein at least one of the wall elements comprises means for attaching one or more other sports tools to the first sports tool.

The sports equipment is characterized in that in its use position it is placed above a level of a floor surface and that the sports equipment comprises means for fully or partially submerging the sports equipment below floor level, a surface of the sports equipment forming part of the floor surface when the sports equipment is placed in its storage position, and that the sports equipment comprises a top surface, a bottom surface and one or more wall surfaces enclosing an inner tool room for storing other sports equipment.

In this way, it is achieved that the sports equipment can be easily hidden away under the floor of the gym, and that the sports equipment thus does not take up space in a storage room. Furthermore, it is achieved that when the inner space of the sports equipment is used as a tool room for other sports equipment, these become easy to set up prior to use, and require a minimum of manual work in connection with the setting of, for example, obstacle courses. This results in a considerable relief in the installation of sports equipment, since manual work of moving the sports equipment from a storage room to the gym is minimized, since it is no longer necessary to push or pull such sports equipment from the storage to the use position in the gym itself. This also makes it much faster to set up the tools before use.

The sports equipment is intended to be built into the floor of a sports hall or hall, preferably in sports halls or halls or similar sports facilities where different forms of sport are cultivated and where there is a need to quickly replace or remove various sports gear after use for one sport and before use for another sport. This can easily be achieved with a sports tool, which is stored away under the semi-floor during storage, which can be raised and lowered down / down in the floor, between a use level above floor level and a storage position below floor level. The sports equipment includes a top surface which in the storage position is level with the semi-floor and forms part of it, so that the hall can be used for other sports when the sports equipment is not in use.

In addition, this construction according to the invention has the advantage that the sports equipment, which in addition to being used as sports equipment, can also have a secondary use, as described below.

In its simplest form, the sports equipment is a block or tower-shaped element, e.g. with, polygonal foundation, such as square, rectangular, triangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, etc., having a top surface and a plurality of side surfaces in the form of wall elements, corresponding to the number of sides in the polygonic base. One or more, optionally all, side surfaces comprise means for attaching one or more other sports implements to the block or tower-shaped element. Preferably, a block-shaped member has a height less than or equal to at least another dimension, e.g. diagonal, width or depth, and a tower-shaped element typically has a height which is typically greater than the other dimensions, ie. width, depth and diagonal.

Alternatively, the sports equipment is a post-shaped element that can be raised and lowered up / down in the floor, between the use position and the storage position. The pillar element may e.g. be a net stander for volleyball nets, badminton nets, tennis nets or the like. In addition to acting as mesh stands, the pole member will preferably comprise one or more fasteners, as described in greater detail in the prior art, or below in connection with fasteners according to the invention, so that it is possible to attach other sports equipment to the post-shaped member.

By being able to raise / lower the sports equipment up and down the floor, it also becomes possible that the sports equipment can be adjusted to the height of the group of users who will use the tool, so that the height can be reduced by raising the sports equipment partially up the floor, when the users are less bumblebee, for example, the implement can be raised all the way to the floor when used by older children or adults. In doing so, the severity of the exercises performed on the sports equipment can also be varied and adapted to the group, e.g. beginners or more experienced users who need to use the sports equipment.

The sports equipment, as mentioned above, comprises a top surface, a bottom surface and one or more wall surfaces that surround an inner space. Hereby it is achieved that the inner space can be used as a storage room for one or more other sports equipment, for example of the kind which can be attached to the wall surface of the sports equipment and / or towers and / or blocks, e.g. corresponding to the above known towers and blocks.

In a further variant, there are one or more walls of the sports equipment, ie. located within the storage compartment of the sports gear also means for attaching one or more other sports gear to the wall or walls. Thereby one or more tools can also be fixed inside the room, which further expands the possibilities for the use of the sports equipment. In addition, the fasteners on the inside of the wall (s) can be used to moor any stored sports gear that can be easily overturned, e.g. while the sports gear is raised or lowered between the use and storage position. This reduces the risk of any overturned implements in the interior space blocking the raising / lowering function. This minimizes the risk of raising / lowering mechanism as the risk of blockage is significantly reduced.

In a variant, the sports equipment can be raised and lowered respectively up and down the floor by a linear vertical movement, which results in the least possible adjustment of the surrounding floor area, and at the same time it is unnecessary to have to cover any additional openings in the floor prior to the exercise. .

In one variant, the sports equipment comprises several movable wall elements and / or barrier elements. The removable wall or barrier elements are e.g. connected to the sports gear with a hinge connection, and thus can be swung in front of an opening. The hinge connection is e.g. mounted in a post or similar in the wall of the sports equipment and can swing the wall or barrier element into the interior space to allow access to the interior of the room. Alternatively, the wall or barrier element is mounted with a connection along an underside of the top surface so that it can be tilted down in front of the opening to the interior of the room. The movable wall or barrier elements may preferably be locked in a position where they cover all or part of the opening into the interior space, preferably with traditional locking elements, e.g. one or more sliding locks. The movable walls / barrier elements can cover the entire opening at full height and width, or optionally full height and partial width, or full width and the upper portion of the height of the interior space opening.

These movable walls / barrier elements preferably also include fasteners so that other sports equipment can be fitted to these wall elements or to barrier elements.

By being able to block openings for the interior of the sports gear, it becomes possible to partially raise / lower the sports gear so that it can be adjusted in height for smaller children. In this position, the wall or barrier elements will prevent access to the interior space of the implement in this partially raised position, so that a user can avoid sliding into the opening between the floor of the gym and the top surface of the sports equipment, and fall to the floor of the interior space.

In one variant, the sports gear is a tiltable wall member, the wall member comprising a hinge connection around which the sports gear is tiltable between its storage position, such as in an opening in the floor, and its use position.

This makes it possible for the wall element to be tilted from a horizontal storage position where the upper side surface of the wall element forms part of the floor, to a vertical position where the wall element can be used for fixing sports equipment or as a band around a football or hockey court in the sports hall. It is preferred that the fasteners are located on the downwardly facing wall surface when the wall surface is in its storage position, thereby preventing the attachment members from sitting on the floor surface itself. This will result in a risk of a user falling over the fasteners, which is completely avoided when placed on the side of the wall member facing downward in the storage position.

In one variant, the wall element tilts up from the floor so that the lower surface faces towards the center of the floor area. This makes it possible to mount other sports equipment on the fasteners on the wall element.

In another variant, the wall element tilts up from the floor so that the upper surface faces towards the center of the floor area. Thus, the fasteners are exposed on the back of the wall element in relation to the center of the hall / floor. In this variant, the other sports equipment will typically be mounted with a number of right-angled brackets which can be mounted at one end over the upper edge of the wall element and engage the fasteners on the rear of the wall element and at the other end have retention means corresponding to the retaining means on wall elements which can hold one or more other implements.

In yet another variant of the sporting equipment, this comprises a secondary floor surface arranged to cover the opening in the floor, the secondary floor surface being connected to means for raising the secondary floor surface between a use position at the level of the floor and a storage position at a level below the floor. This makes it possible to cover the opening that arises in the floor when the wall element is tilted from a horizontal position, where one of the side surfaces of the wall element forms part of the floor, to a vertical position where the wall element can be used for fixing sports gear or as a band around a soccer or hockey court in the gym.

It is preferred that the means for raising and lowering the sports equipment and / or the secondary floor surface comprise one or more hydraulically and / or pneumatically driven actuators, and / or a mechanically driven system such as a wireline, ensuring an efficient and reliable power transmission to the sporting equipment itself. When the sports gear is also used as a storage room, it will, in addition to its own weight, also include the weight of the additional gear stored in the inner room. In these situations, a hydraulically based actuator will be preferred as it is more robust and is capable of exerting a force to ensure that the total weight of the sports gear and its contents in the interior can be raised and lowered effortlessly and without overloading the raising / lowering mechanism.

It is further preferred that the means for tilting the wall-shaped sports gear around the hinge connection also include hydraulic and / or pneumatically driven actuators, and / or a mechanically driven system such as a wire rope, which ensures an efficient and reliable power transmission to the sports gear itself.

The raising-lowering means for the sports equipment, and / or the tilting function and the raising-lowering mechanism for the secondary floor surface of the wall-shaped sports tool are preferably controlled via a control unit which is used to control the raising-lowering means on one or more individual sports equipment. Thus, raising counters for several individual sports gear according to the invention can be controlled individually and / or group-wise via the control unit. The control unit is operated via a control panel, optionally in the form of a remote control such as a wireless device. For example, the wireless unit is a traditional remote control with buttons for raising and lowering the various sports elements mounted in the gym. Alternatively, the control unit comprises a smartphone, tablet or similar portable device on which is installed a program which transmits information to sports equipment / via a wireless data network, such as a wireless data network, mobile network, internet, bluetooth or infrared. the tool control unit to raise / lower one or more sports equipment between the use level above the floor level and the storage position below the floor level.

Preferably, the fasteners on the wall surfaces comprise perforations in the wall surface, straps, and / or zipper joints. The perforations will constitute the female part of a joint which may have different shapes depending on the shape of the male part to be mounted in the perforation. It is preferred that the fasteners are evenly distributed throughout the at least one wall surface of the sports equipment, preferably all wall surfaces, so that other sports tools can be fixed in different positions on the wall surface, which ensures optimal variation possibilities for, e.g. obstacle courses, inhibits e.g. parcour lanes. One type of fastener may be used, but it is preferred that a wall surface comprise several different fasteners as it thereby becomes possible to attach many different other sports gear to the sports gear according to the invention. For example, stretcher straps and / or zipper joints may be used to attach skid mats and / or foam-based implements to the sports equipment of the invention, and the perforations may be used to attach other implements, e.g. ladders, climbing nets, balance booms, etc., e.g. with fasteners described as handicaps. Alternatively, fasteners may be used between the sports gear according to the invention and other sports gear corresponding to the fastening methods of the secondary gear described in the aforementioned WO 2011/141254 A and which are hereby incorporated by reference.

The male portion will typically be inserted into the female portion and be secured, for example, with a locking pawl, e.g. can be triggered with a tool or key, by traditional snap-lock effect. Alternatively, the male portion is secured to the perforation by the male portion comprising a transverse rod-shaped member and the perforation comprising a slot wherein the male portion is directed downwardly after being introduced into the aperture and / or by rotating the sports equipment provided by the male member. the part is mounted on e.g. 90 degrees. In either case, the transverse rod will be mounted behind the wall so that it is not possible to pull the male member out of the female member without previously lifting the male member out of the slot and / or by performing a correspondingly opposite rotation of the male member. -part.

The perforations may, in their simplest version, be circular, oval, rectangular, or triangular, these forms being preferred for use with a snap-lock or locking device constituting the male part of the second implement.

Alternatively, more complex forms of perforations are possible as they may be used, for example, with a male part rotated and / or displaced vertically downwardly by the attachment, as described above. Examples of possible forms of the perforations are, for example, keyhole, cruciform, T-shape, or of circular, oval, rectangular, such as vertical rectangular or horizontal rectangular or triangular shape in which a slit is formed, preferably in the form of a substantially rectangular cut. at the lower end or edge of the perforation.

Character description

The invention will now be described with reference to the drawings, in which: FIG. Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a sports tool that can be raised and lowered up / down in a hall floor, and which simultaneously functions as a storage room; Figure 2 shows a perspective view of an alternative embodiment of a sports tool in the form of a block or tower-shaped tool that can be raised and lowered up / down in a semi-floor; 3a-b show a perspective view of two alternative embodiments wherein a wall-shaped element is raised and lowered up / down in a hall floor by rotation about a hinge connection, and

FIG. 4a-i show various possible forms of perforations in a wall surface of the sports equipment.

Detailed description of the invention

Fig. 1 shows a first embodiment of the sports gear according to the invention in the form of a sports tool 1, which can be raised by a semi-floor 5 when in use, to a position of use, and lowered so that the top surface 3 of the sports gear 1 is level with the hall floor 5, when not in use, also called the storage position. The sports equipment 1 comprises a top surface 3 and at least one, preferably a plurality of wall surfaces 2. The sports equipment 1 is shown in its position of use, where the sports equipment top surface 3 is above the level of the semi-floor 5. This releases the wall surfaces 2 and it is possible to attach other sports equipment ( not shown) by means of perforations or holes 11 in the wall surfaces 2 and / or alternative fasteners 12, e.g. in the form of straps and / or zipper joints fixed to the inside and / or outside of the wall surfaces 2. The perforations 11 are described in more detail above. Non-limiting examples of the aforementioned forms of holes / perforations 11 in the wall elements 2 are shown in FIGS. 4a-4g. It is preferred that the fasteners 11, 12 are evenly distributed throughout the at least one wall surface 2 of the sports gear 1, preferably over all wall surfaces 2, so that other sports gear (not shown) can be secured in different positions on the wall surface 2, which ensures optimal variation possibilities for alignment. of e.g. obstacle courses.

In the embodiment shown, the sports equipment has a bottom 4, and bottom 4, top surface 3 and the side walls 2 form an inner space. This inner space can e.g. used to store other sports equipment (not shown), including e.g. other tools that can be attached to the outer and / or inside of the wall surfaces 2.

Preferably, between the top surface 3 and the bottom surface 4, supporting posts 7 are arranged, at least in each corner of the sports equipment 1, which carries the top surface 3 at a fixed height above the bottom surface 4. The wall surfaces 2 are preferably mounted on the supporting posts 7. Alternatively a or more removable wall surfaces 8a, 8b mounted on the supporting posts 7, or on the underside of the top surface 3 with a hinge connection 10, so that the wall surface 8a, 8b can act as a door or gate into the interior of the implement and block the opening into the interior space , which swings in and / or out of the opening in the sports gear 1, as illustrated by arrows 9a, 9b. The distance between the top surface 3 and the bottom surface 4 is preferably so large that an adult can stand completely or approximately upright in the inner space.

It is preferred that the inside of one or more wall surfaces 2 of the sports gear 1 also includes fasteners for attaching one or more other sports gear, which may also be used for mooring gear for the walls during storage.

FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the sports gear according to the invention in the form of a tower or block shaped sports gear 1 '. The sports gear 1 'comprises a top surface 3 and a plurality of wall surfaces 2. In the embodiment shown there are four wall surfaces 2, but there may also be several, e.g. six wall surfaces if the base of the sports equipment is hexagonal in shape or eight wall surfaces if the base of the sports equipment is octagonal. The sports gear Γ is shown in its position of use where the sports gear top surface 3 is above the level of the semi-floor 5. This releases the wall surfaces 2 and it is possible to attach other sports gear (not shown) by means of the perforations 11 and / or alternative fasteners, f. eg. in the form of a strap, or zippered assembly.

Below the floor 5, as shown in FIG. 1-2, a tomb 6, comprising means (not shown) designed to lower the sports equipment 1 into the tomb 6, is formed into a storage position where the top surface 3 is level with the floor 5 and raises it again to its displayed position of use. The tomb 6 therefore has a size that allows it to be possible to lower the sports gear 1 into the tomb 6 and at the same time give room for actuators to raise / lower the sports gear 1. It is preferred that the actuators to raise and lower the sports gear 1 comprise hydraulically and / or pneumatically driven raising / lowering means, and / or a mechanically driven system such as a wire rope. When the sports gear 1 is also used as a storage room, it will, in addition to its own weight, also include the weight of the additional gear stored in the inner room. In these situations, a hydraulically based raising / lowering system is preferred as this is more robust and is capable of exerting a force to ensure that the total weight of the sports gear 1 and its contents in the interior can be raised or lowered, respectively. without problems, and without overloading the raising / lowering mechanism.

The raising-lowering mechanism is preferably controlled via a control unit (not shown) which is used to control the raising-lowering means on one or more individual sports equipment, as described in more detail above.

It is possible to raise the sports gear 1 in whole or in part above floor level to a use position. This makes it possible to adjust the height of the sports gear 1, ie. the distance between the top surface 3 and the level 5 of the floor, to the users, so that the same sports equipment can be used for both children and adults. If the sports gear 1 comprises an inner compartment, the movable wall elements 8a, 8b will block the opening to the inner compartment of the sports gear and prevent a user from falling onto the bottom surface 4 of the inner compartment in a partially raised position of use.

In a further embodiment, the sports gear 1 is a wall element 1 ", Γ" which is tiltable, the wall element 1 ", Γ" comprising a hinge connection (not shown) around which the sports gear 1 ", 1" 'is tiltable between its storage position, as in an opening 15 in the floor 5, and its position of use.

This allows the wall element 1 ", 1" 'to be tilted from a horizontal storage position where the upper side surface 2 "of the wall element 1", 1 "' forms part of the floor 5, to the vertical position where the wall element 1", 1 ”can be used for attaching other sports equipment or as a gang around a football or hockey court in the gym.

It is preferred that the fasteners 11, 12 are located on the downwardly facing wall surface 2 'when the wall surface 1 ", Γ" is in its storage position, thereby preventing the fastening elements 11, 12 from sitting on or in that part of the wall element , 1 ", Γ", which in the storage position forms part of the floor surface 5 itself. This will completely avoid any risk of a user falling over the fasteners 11, 12.

In one variant of this embodiment, the wall element Γ "flips off the floor so that the lower surface 3 'faces toward the center of the floor area 5. This makes it possible to mount other sports equipment on the fasteners 11, 12 on the wall element 1", in another variant. the wall element Γ 'tilts up from the floor so that the upper surface faces towards the center of the floor area. Thus, the fasteners are exposed on the back of the wall element in relation to the center of the hall / floor. In this variant, the other sports equipment will typically be mounted with a number of right-angled brackets, which can be mounted at one end over the upper edge of the wall element, and engage the fasteners on the rear of the wall element, and at the other end have retention means corresponding to for retaining means on wall elements which can hold one or more other implements.

In this embodiment of the sports equipment 1 ", Γ", this comprises a secondary floor surface 14 arranged to cover the opening 15 in the floor 5, the secondary floor surface 14 comprising means for raising the secondary floor surface between a use position in the level with the floor 5 and a storage position in a lower level below the floor 5. This makes it possible to cover the opening 15 that arises in the floor 5 when the wall element 1 ”, Γ” is tilted from a horizontal position, where a first side surface 3 'of the wall element 1 ", Γ" forms part of the floor 5, for vertical use position, where the wall element 1 ", Γ" can be used for attaching other sports equipment. Alternatively, the wall element l ", Γ" may be used in other sports which employ gangs around a track, e.g. a football or hockey field.

It is preferred that the means for tilting the wall-shaped sports equipment 1 ”, Γ” as well as for raising and lowering the secondary floor surface 14 comprise hydraulically and / or pneumatically driven actuators similar to those already described for the sports lowering mechanism 1 above.

Claims (7)

A sports device having one or more wall elements, wherein at least one of the wall elements comprises means for attaching one or more other sports tools to the first sports tool, where the sports equipment is in its position of use above a level for a floor surface and the sports equipment comprises means for the whole or partially submerging the sports equipment below floor level, a surface of the sports equipment forming part of the floor surface when the sports equipment is placed in its storage position and the sports equipment comprising a top surface, a bottom surface and one or more wall surfaces enclosing an internal storage space for storage. other sports gear, characterized in that the inside of one or more walls of the sports gear includes fasteners for attaching one or more other sports gear to the first sports gear. Exercise device according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises one or more movable wall elements and / or barrier elements. Sports equipment according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the sports equipment can be raised and lowered respectively by the floor in a linear vertical movement. Sporting gear according to claim 1, characterized in that the wall element comprises a hinge connection around which the sports gear is tiltable between its storage position, such as in an opening in the floor, and its position of use. Sporting gear according to claim 4, characterized in that the sports gear comprises a secondary floor surface adapted to cover the opening in the floor, the secondary floor surface being associated with means for raising the secondary floor surface between a position of use in level with the floor and a storage position in a sub level below the floor. Sports equipment according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the means for raising and lowering the sports equipment and / or the secondary floor surface comprises hydraulically and / or pneumatically driven raising / lowering means, and / or a mechanically driven system such as a wire rope. . Sports equipment according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the fastening means comprise perforations in the wall surface, straps, and / or zipper joints.