IES20190089A2 - Game and sports equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

a game and sports equipment (1), with a vertical movements permitting tread surface (2), wherein the tread (2) by means of several elastic tension elements at anchoring points of a support structure can be suspended and a user together with the tread surface (2) is movable, the invention proposes that the tension elements are designed as ropes (3), which are at least partially designed to resiliently resilient train, and that the support structure has exactly three to each anchorage tensionable ropes (3), wherein the elastically stretchable portion (5) is designed as a so-called rubber cord, and the three ropes (3) extend in a star shape and in each case extend from the tread surface (2) almost horizontally to the respective anchoring point.

Description

"Game and sports equipment" Description: The invention relates to a game and sports equipment according to the preamble of claim 1.

From US 6 093 024 A is a training device for improvement the motor skills known which has no tread, but a configured in the form of a pair of shorts recording, in which the respective user of the device is recorded. This mount hangs from ropes made of high—strength material and a swirl fitting, so that rotation move- ments around the suspension axis are possible, but up and down movements of the shot and the user are not possible.

From GB 2 331 252 A an amusement device is known in which a cage-like receptacle for one or more users is held on two elastic suspension ropes. The suspension ropes are elastic over part of their length and inelastic over another, preferably larger portion of their length.

From DE 298 12 660 U1 a suspension swing is known, in which a sitting or lying device recording for the User fonns and is sus- pended from one, two or more elastically stretchable, upright ro- pes.

From DE 203 O4 776 U1 a device for time—limited creation of weightlessness is known, in which a user similar to the bungee jump first experiences a free fall, which is braked by a rubber rope, so that the user alternately a double to no gravitational ac- celeration is suspended, but within a gondola.

From DE 20 2004 000 864 U1 a swinging device is known, which serves for rocking while standing. The tread to accommodate the user is suspended as usual on swings on two upright ropes.

Game and sports equipment, in which the respective elements which receive the user and have a seat or tread surface, are ap- proximately horizontally clamped, differs from the prior art descri- bed hitherto. Since the tension elements do not run upwards, but rather are oriented horizontally and run approximately horizontal- ly, accidental arcing is ruled out.

From US 3,132,860 a game device is known in which the user is taken on a rigid seat, the be configured for example in the form of a horse body can, with this seat at four points by means of metallic Tension springs is suspended. The tension springs are in turn in one suspended on the floor erectable tubular frame.

From US 2,860,689 another game and sports equipment is known, which is particularly intended for children and in which a seat is arranged for safety reasons within a metallic basket. The basket is suspended in a substantially freely oscillating manner on a total of eight metallic tension springs, with fittings connected to the tension springs joining at four points each offset by 90 ° at the top to the metallic basket. Also in this game and sports equipment the tension springs are connected to a tubular frame, which can be placed on the floor.

From DE 35 41 849 A1 a generic game and sports equipment is known. In this case, a rigid tread is provided in the form of a tread plate, from which extend at a distance from each other two brackets upwards. The construction consisting of the two brackets and the tread is suspended on four metallic tension springs in a tubular frame, which can be placed on the ground.

The tubular frame is a supporting structure which provides four anchoring points on which the four tension springs are suspen- ded, on which the tread is suspended. The two mentioned brackets, which are also connected to the tread, have handles and thus form securing struts, which run on both sides of stan- ding on the tread user, and where he can hold with the help of provided on the brackets handles.

From DE 10 2011 114 371 A1 a ride is known, the support struc- ture has a plurality of mutually parallel rails. On the rails run mo- tor—driven chassis, where motor—driven winches are stored. Ro- pes run from the winches to a platform so that the platform sus- pended from the ropes can be moved along the rails by means of the chassis. The ropes are not stretchable, but are made of steel, for example, and are always under tension, so that the platform is securely held in any position and orientation. For ex- ample, the platfonn can be hung on eight ropes. The fact that each chassis can be moved independently of the other chassis and each winch can be operated independently of the other win- ches, the platform can occupy different positions and orientation in a space bounded by the rails.

The invention has for its object to improve a generic game and sports equipment to the effect that this, as it is known from bun- gee jumping or trampoline jumping, allows vertical movements with a large amplitude.

This object is achieved by a game and sports equipment with the features of claim 1. Advantageous embodiments are described in the subclaims.

In other words, the invention proposes to design the tension ele- ments as cables which can be resiliently loaded at least in secti- ons on a train. These ropes are fixed to the supporting structure.

The proposed game and sports equipment can therefore be con- figured as easily transportable device which uses anchoring points of the existing environment at the site: for example, buil- ding walls or rocks can be used in which eyelets or hooks are in- troduced, where then the ropes can be determined. As a step- ping surface elements come into question on which the user can stand. These can be two-dimensional elements in the form of plates, or one-dimensional elements such as rods or ropes. The fact that the user is not sitting but standing on the tread, the verti- cal amplitudes, so the vertical vibration behavior of the tread can be easily influenced by the fact that the user located on the tread makes a vertical displacement of its center of gravity, for exam- ple by, similar as with squats, alternately squats and then straightens up again. So the tread surface is forced into a forced oscillation and thus creates an up and down movement. A motor drive is therefore not required. As a result, not only the design of the game and sports equipment is influenced economically ad- vantageous, but by reducing the required equipment cost, the game and sports equipment can be easily transported with the lowest possible transport weight and smallest possible packing dimensions and built at the desired location.

According to the proposal, it is provided that the game and sports equipment has multiple anchoring points by the support structure has exactly three anchoring points. Compared to four or more anchoring points, the costs and the equipment required for installation of the game and sports equipment are minimized in this way, while ensuring at the same time that by means of the three ropes the tread is held in a plane spanned by the ropes le- vel. Compared to one Suspension on only two ropes thus the rol- lover safety of the tread can be guaranteed, in particular since the proposal is provided that the tread surface not after suspen- ded below by the correspondingly upwardly extending ropes, but rather is stretched between the ropes, making the ropes not up- right but lying and run in a star shape to the respective anchoring point.

The three anchoring points may e.g. be provided by three ancho- red in the ground masts. For example, however, two already existing anchoring points can be used, e.g. Building walls, rocks or trees and a third anchoring point on a mast can be provided by the user and mounted so that the total of three anchoring points are arranged in the manner of an isosceles triangle in or- der to achieve a uniform force distribution, so that the three trac- tion elements used as evenly as possible at an angle of approxi- mately 120 ° to each other act on the tread.

In particular, can be favored by this requirement, only three an- choring points and only a single mast to transport and set up, the design of the game and sports equipment as a portable device be favored with the smallest possible space and the lowest pos- sible weight.

Having three anchoring points in nature, which are arranged ap- proximately in the shape of an isosceles triangle, can make the choice of the site considerably more difficult. To find two ancho- ring points and to provide the third by the one or only mast, as part of the game and sports equipment has been transported to the site, allows the use of a variety of found in nature places as a site for the game and sports equipment.

The anchoring of a mast in the ground can be done by placing the mast itself in the ground. In particular, in a permanent use of the game and sports equipment at the same site, for example, be provided to arrange foundations in the ground and to anchor the mast directly in such a foundation. However, the anchoring of a mast can also be done directly, e.g. by guying in the fonn of wire ropes, which in turn cause anchorage in the ground by ground anchors.

Finally, according to the proposal also provided that the ropes, which are at least partially resilient on train, are designed in their elastic section as a stretchy rope, which is often referred to in practice as "rubber rope", regardless of its actual structure and the actual used in such a rope materials. The rubber cord differs, for example, from an elongated elastic element configured as a spiral spring in that its extensible body extends in the longitudinal direction and does not run helically around the actual longitudinal axis. The use of a rubber cord makes it possible to easily adapt the load capacity or the spring action of the rope to the respecti- ve situation of use, for example to the body weight of the respec- tive user by similar to an expander, the number of each used in a rope strands can be changed , Due to the much larger diameter of helical springs such an adjustment of the spring action would not be just as easily possible if coil springs would form the resili- ent portion of a rope.

In contrast, a second section of the rope is of low stretch. It may be located farther away from the tread than the stretchable porti- on of the rope and attached to a mast or anchoring point. Due to the type of attachment of the rubber cord portion of the rope can be biased by means of the low—expansion portion, so that for ex- ample, this adaptation to different weights of different users can be done to reliably exclude unwanted ground contact.

However, the converse arrangement of the stretchable and low- expansion sections may also be advantageous in other respects: when the stretch—poor section of the rope adjoins the tread sur- face and the stretchable section extends farther from the tread face to the anchoring point, the playing and sports equipment can be particularly vandal—proof be designed. This is always ad- vantageous, for example, when the game and sports equipment remains unattended for a long time, for example, as a device which is permanently installed on a playground or sports field.

Due to the height of the mast and the distance from the tread, the stretch of the respective ropes can be as poor as possible in this arrangement of the ropes, because in view of its design as a so-called rubber cord, the stretchable portion can be relatively easily damaged by cuts or similar actions. The low-stretch secti- on, however, may consist of a relatively more robust material, which provides a correspondingly better protection against van- dalism.

In order to allow the mentioned vertical displacement of its center of gravity for the user, a basically standing position of the user on the tread is advantageous. It can therefore be advantageously provided that the proposed game and sports equipment is desi- gned deliberately free of a seat. The absence of the seat firstly helps to reduce the weight of the game and sports equipment, which has an advantageous effect in its transport. Secondly, it avoids accident hazards that might othenivise be caused by the seating surface in view of the high dynamics when the user is standing near the seating surface in the high dynamic play and sports equipment. As with the above—mentioned waiver of a seat and another waiver in the proposed game and sports equipment can be beneficial: namely, the waiver of one or more motor dri- ves, which could act for example on the tension elements to ten- sion them by means of winds alternately and to relax so as to put the user in vertical motion. This eliminates not only the weight re- quired for the drives and winches, but also the effort required for the energy supply of the drives in the form of power cables, ac- cumulators, generators or the like. Apart from the transport there- by simplified, considerable costs are saved in particular.

Particularly advantageously, the support structure can be formed by masts, which are anchored in the ground, so that in the follo- wing embodiments are purely exemplary and representative of other embodiments of support structures masts are always men- tioned, but without the design of the game and sports equipment on this embodiment of Restrict support structure.

The masts may be man-made masts, for example tubes in the form of aluminum hollow sections, or in the fonn of particularly lightweight tubes of carbon fiber composite or the like, or they may be naturally grown masts, for example in shape of trees, in particular the usable tree trunks. The design of the tension mem- bers as ropes can be easily adapted to different mast distances, whereby the vibration behavior of the game and sports equip- ment can be influenced and in particular larger vertical amplitu- des can be made possible.

Furthermore, the masts may differ from each other in that they are either fixed in place, as the exemplified trees, or that they are portable and can be spent to the site of the game and sports equipment as well as after the use of the game and sports equip- ment can be removed again, such as the aluminum hollow secti- ons or CFK pipes mentioned by way of example.

In particular, when the support structure is designed to be trans- portable, for example in the form of portable masts, the suppor- ting structure in the form of a supplementary or additional ele- ment may constitute a part of the game and sports equipment.

Due to the large achievable vibration amplitude can be provided to tread the tread at a distance of several meters above the ground using the ropes. To get to the tread, therefore, a climbing aid can be advantageous. It may be a rope, which may be parti- cularly advantageously provided with nodes, or a rope ladder.

This climbing aid can be attached to the tread or on a securing strut. Such lifts, which have a low weight and can be transported with a small footprint, are particularly advantageous if the game and sports equipment for a short—tenn use - on, for example, only a single day - spent at the site and then disassembled again.

Alternatively, however, a climbing aid can be used that is not physically connected to the game and sports equipment and thus does not affect the vibration behavior of the game and sports equipment, and also allows the user the most convenient and se- cure access to the tread. For example, lift climbers or similar de- vices can be used, especially if the game and sports equipment is to remain permanently in a specific environment, for example in the context of a sports park such a climbing park, a high ropes course or the like to be used.

As tread, for example, a tear-resistant fabric element can be used. A particularly good control of its movements and the verti- cal amplitude generated thereby can advantageously be made possible for the user in that the tread is configured as a horizon- tally oriented dimensionally stable platform, for example made of metal, of a wood material or of a particularly lightweight but rigid composite material.

The mentioned low-stretch portion of the rope can be configured for example as a tension belt, as it is known for example for se- curing cargo on vehicles. In this way, by means of an easy—to—u— se ratchet fitting, the length of the low—stretch portion can be changed and the rubber cord portion of the rope are changed ac- cordingly easily and within a short time and the rubber rope are accordingly vorzuspannt different degrees. In addition, a tension belt can be rolled up to an advantageously low pack size and has a comparatively low weight.

As an alternative to a tension belt, a wire rope can be used for the low—stretch section of the rope. This can be particularly ad- vantageous when the game and sports equipmentnot spent as a portable device to the site and It should be used there only for a short time, but if, for example, as a permanent installation over a longer period of time should be used. In this case, the use of a wire rope as a low-stretch portion of the rope is an advantageous tamper—proof and in particular vandalism—proof design of the rope.

Advantageously, fitting elements in the rope can be provided at both ends of the stretchable section, ie the rubber rope, which al- low mounting of an additional rubber cord. In this way, regardless of the bias of the rope, the spring characteristic of the rope can be influenced in order to adapt the rope to different weights of different users can. For example, can be provided at both ends of the stretchable portion ring eyelets, so that accordingly easily and without tools provided with appropriate hooks further rubber cables can be hung or removed from the game and sports equip- ment. ln one embodiment, it can be provided that the cables each connect to the supporting structure by means of a deflection fit- ting, e.g. to her respective mast. Thus, a rope which runs appro- ximately horizontally from the tread to the mast, be deflected by means of the deflection fitting on the mast down so that it can be detected and tensioned, for example, below the deflection fitting to change in this way the bias of the rope. in particular, when the tread is to be stretched at a comparatively high altitude of sever- al meters above the ground, a trouble—free operation of the ca- bles with respect to the adjustment of their bias can be made possible by means of the deflection fitting. For example, nodes can be introduced at different locations in the rope, so that the nodes abut as stop elements on the deflection fitting and thus define the prevailing in the rope bias.

However, it can be provided in a particularly advantageous man- ner that, beyond the deflection fitting, that is to say on the region of the cable which is farther from the tread surface, a fixing fitting is arranged on the supporting structure, e.g. on the mast, for ex- ample below the deflection fitting, so that the rope can be fixed to this fixing fitting. The Fixierbeschlag two advantages are achie- ved: On the one hand, the Fixierbeschlag ensures a force deflec- tion in the rope, so that the forces acting on the deflection fitting forces are defiected and thus a particularly secure hold of the de- flection fitting on the mast can be supported.

According to the use of a support structure with only three an- choring points, which may be provided particularly advanta- geous, a holder of the tread may be provided to the tension members in only three places. For example, a triangular tread may be used, with the three tangs joining the tread at the three tips of this tread. By means of these three points, a stable positi- on of the tread surface in space can be defined, so that the desi- red vertical vibrations of the tread surface can be generated as safely as possible.

A particularly good safety of the user can be ensured by multiple securing struts run from the tread upwards and above the tread surround the users in the manner of a closed ring, namely, above the tread as a closed ring around the center of the tread run. De- pending on the height of the upright securing struts, the closed ring can run in the manner of a railing or a railing, for example, approximately at waist height of the user, for example, at a height of 70 to 130 cm above the tread. Alternatively, a proper security cage may be provided, which form the securing struts and which is sized so large that the user can be accommodated in this security cage, that is surrounded all around by the security cage. Such a safety cage may for example have a diameter of 2 m or more, so that both children and adults can be accommoda- ted in the safety cage.

For example, the mentioned safety cage can be configured in the form of an icosahedron. This allows using exclusively manufactu- ring technology advantageous, straight struts the creation of an approximately spherical cage that surrounds the user on all sides and protects.

Advantageously, climbing ropes can run within the safety cage, so that they can be used as treads and handles and therefore al- low the user to take a variety of different positions within the sa- fety cage, for example, in comparison, if only one single platform would be provided as a tread. Furthermore, these inner climbing ropes ensure that no body parts such as fingers, toes or the like of the user protrude beyond the safety cage outwards, as this could not be ruled out if the user directly the struts of safety cage would use as treads.

Advantageously, so many climbing ropes can be stretched within the safety cage that they form a veritable climbing cage within the safety cage. Apart from the fact that the number of climbing ropes improves the variability of use, the climbing ropes can also be used to create the aforementioned climbing cage as an inner cage consisting of ropes within the outer cage, for example made of metallic struts. As a result, accidental contact of the user with the outer cage is avoided when the user accidentally loses hold, for example. Even though the climbing ropes are taut, they ensure a smoother and more resilient contact during such un- planned touches and therefore improve safety for the user.

Advantageously, the climbing ropes between the nodes be cu- rious about the safety cage. As a result, the production of the game and sports equipment is simplified because there are no specially provided eyelets or the like provided for fastening the climbing ropes. Rather, provide the nodes of the safety cage na- tural attachment points that allow a secure displacement, fixed attachment of a climbing rope.

Advantageously, the game and sports equipment in the manner of a kit be provided in which the components of the game and sports equipment are available separately. In favor of a faster construc- tion, however, can be provided that the tread is already firmly connected to the ropes factory, whereby a factory-tested, secure design of the game and sports equipment can be ensured. The ropes are, however, free at their respective opposite, remote from the tread end, so that they at the anchoring points, e.g. at masts, can and must still be determined. In this way, any ancho- ring points can be used to create the support structure, provided they meet the static requirements. For example, trees can be used as masts, so that the kit must contain only a single mast, which must be transported to the site of the game and sports equipment and there, for example, with a spike can be anchored non—s|ip in the ground and with additional restraints, as from the construction a tent, a radio mast or the like are known, can be anchored stable.

Two embodiments of a proposed game and sports equipment will be explained in more detail below with reference to the pure- ly schematic representations. It shows Fig. 1 a perspective view of a first embodiment of the game and sports equipment, Fig. 2 a plan view of a second embodiment of the game and sports equipment, and Fig. 3 a perspective view of an embodiment similar to FIG. 2, but with additional climbing ropes.

In the drawings, 1 is a game and sports equipment in total, which has a dimensionally stable tread surface 2, and by means of three spring-elastic tension elements, namely with the help of three ropes 3 at three anchoring points is suspended. The an- choring points are through in the ground anchored masts 4 provi- ded. The manner in which the masts are constructed or mounted is not shown for the sake of drawing simplicity; For example, the masts 4 can be anchored free—standing in the ground in favor of a permanent use, for example, be embedded in concrete. Howe- ver, it may also be provided that the masts 4 are set up in favor of a temporary use only on the ground and possibly secured with a spike against lateral slippage, and that they are anchored with the help of guying exclusively or additionally in the ground.

In both embodiments, it is provided that the ropes 3 each have two different sections: The tread surface 2 closer to the ropes 3 each have a stretchable portion 5, which in the illustrated embo- diment each consists of several rubber cords. Further away from the tread surface 2, the ropes 3 each have a low-expansion por- tion 6. In the embodiment of Fig. 1, this low-stretch portion 6 is guided to a designed as a ring loop deflection fitting 7 on the mast 4 and extends from there on the mast 4 down to a fixing fit- ting. 8 In the embodiment of Fig. 2, the low-stretch portion 6 of the rope 3 is designed as a tension belt which extends to the deflection fit- ting 7, wherein for reasons of clarity in Fig. 2, the fitting elements of the tensioning belt are not shown.

The stretchable portions 5 of the ropes 3 connect at their two ends respectively to fitting elements 9, which are each designed as eyelets, so that optionally rubber cables are added to the stretchable section 5 or removed from it can.

The ropes 3 do not close directly to the tread surface 2, but rat- her indirectly via securing struts 10. In the embodiment of Fig. 1, three vertical securing struts 10 are provided extending from the three corners of the tread surface 2 upright and extending through lying Securing struts 10 are interconnected.

These lying extending securing struts 10 fonn a railing or a rai- ling that runs approximately at waist height in the manner of a closed, triangular ring around the center of the tread surface 2, so that, as shown in Fig. 1, a user of the game and sports equip- ment 1 of This railing is surrounded annularly.

In the embodiment of FIG. 2, the securing struts 10 form a safety cage 11, which is configured in the form of an icosahedron and in which the user also schematically drawn in Fig. 2 is added, so that the user — as in a ball — around all sides surrounded by the safety cage 11.

Fig. 3 shows a game and sports equipment 1, in which the secu- ring struts 10 as in the embodiment of FIG. 2 form a safety cage 11. Differences, which are shown in Fig. 3, to the embodiments shown so far in a modification of the previously described embo- diments, individually or in any combination also in the embodi- ments of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 are realized.

In contrast to Fig. 2, a plurality of climbing ropes 12 is stretched inside the formed by the securing struts 10 icosahedron, each serving as a tread surface 2 and form an inner cage or climbing cage, a direct contact prevents the user with the outer safety cage 11. It does not have to be separate climbing ropes 12, but few or possibly only a single climbing rope 12 can be stretched in corresponding deflections and form the different sections, which are each addressed with reference to FIG. 3 as climbing rope 12.

Notwithstanding the illustrated embodiment, a so—called climbing net can be used to create the climbing cage.

In addition to the climbing ropes 12 in the interior of the safety cage 11, another climbing rope 12 hangs down out of the safety cage 11 and is provided with knots to enable the user to climb into the safety cage 11 instead of an equally usable ladder. Ano- ther difference from Fig. 2 is that in the embodiment of Fig. 3, the ropes 3 are mounted in such a way that the stretchable portions , which are designed as so—called rubber ropes, not directly connect to the safety cage 11, but rather to the masts 4, and that instead the |ow—expansion portions 6 extend from the stretchable portions 5 to the tread surface 2 and the safety cage 11, respec- tively. As a result, the game and sports equipment 1 is particular- ly well suited for pennanent installation: due to the height of the masts 4, and due to the length of the low stretch portions 6, the stretchable portions 5 are so far from the ground and so far away from the safety cage 11 that they poorly accessible and accordin- gly arranged vandalismicher.

In addition, different from the embodiment of Fig. 1 or 2, that the low-stretch portions 6 in Fig. 3 are not designed as straps, but as wire ropes or ropes with a wire core, as are commercially availa- ble, for example, under the name "Herkulesseil". This also favors a vandalism-proof design of the game and sports equipment 1, as it is desirable, for example, for a permanent installation, espe- cially in public areas, such as play or sports fields.

Finally, there is also a difference in the design of the individual ropes 3: seen over the length of the rope 3, this does not consist of two serially arranged sections, one of which is exclusively stretchable and one only has a low stretch. Rather, the low- stretch portion 6 extends over the entire length of the rope 3, but runs parallel to the stretchable portion 5 with an excess length, which also hangs loose initially, when the rope 3 is taut. Only when the rope 3 is stretched under load and thereby increases the length of the stretchable portion 5, the excess length of this parallel portion of the low—stretch portion 6 is reduced.

As a result, this parallel portion of the low—stretch portion 6 forms a stop limiting the maximum elongation of the stretchable portion . This is also advantageous in a permanent installation of the game and sports equipment 1: since it can not be expected with a permanently present supervisor, an overload of the game and sports equipment 1 can not be ruled out, for example by too many and I or too heavy persons who are on the tread surface 2.

The fact that the mentioned stop, which fonns the parallel low- stretch portion 6, limits the stretchability of the stretchable portion , firstly prevents the stretchable portion 5 from being overstret- ched and tearing unduly. Second, it is prevented that the tread surface 2, for example, the illustrated safety cage 11 is moved unduly deep down. This serves to protect the person who uses the game and sports equipment 1, and a protection of the game and sports equipment 1 itself, and finally a protection of persons who may be inadmissible below the game and sports equipment 1, in particular below safety cage 11, stop. in addition, the paral- lel portion of the low—stretch portion 6 is also a certain vandalism protection: namely, if the stretchable portion 5 should be dama- ged, this may possibly later break in the operation of the game and sports equipment 1, but an uncontrolled, free mobility of the safety cage 11 prevented.

Reference numerals: 3 _A —L _x [U Game and sports equipment Tread surface Rope Mast Stretchable portion Low—stretch portion Deflection fitting Fixing fitting Fitting element Securing strut Safety cage Climbing rope

Claims (5)

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1. Games and sports equipment (1) comprising: a triangular tread surface (2), surrounded by securing struts (10), connected to three 5ground anchored masts (4) via three ropes (3); wherein the three ropes (3) are configured at a horizontally orientated level; wherein the securing struts (10) and thread surface (2) form an enclosure 10consisting of three vertical securing struts (10) extending up from the three _b,,\qxn°”° corners of the tgrégd surface (2) connectedmgbymgvenical securing struts (190393 forming a rail or railing at waist level; wherein each of the three ropes (3) contain two different sections, a 15stretchable portion (5) closest to the enclosure and a low stretch portion (6) furthest away from the enclosure, wherein the low stretch portion (6) of the ropes (3) are optionally connected to the anchored masts (4) via ring loop defection 20fittings (7) on the masts and optionally further extended down the length of the mast (4) to a fixinmg fitting (8); We db 0 ré’ r» r» 1&9 'fi3‘6\ "E5‘§ «L0 {L9 ,l9\6\ wherein the stretchable portion (5) of the ropes (3) are connected to the enclosure via fitting elements (9), 25 wherein the stretchable portion (5) and low stretch portion (6) of the ropes (3) are constructed as one complete unit, or optionally, one end of a stretchable portion (5), away from the enclosure, may be connected to a low stretch portion (6) via fitting elements 30(9). 0 Q Q ’\\'L6L W” ’\\'L 40°” 0 gp gp o mg‘

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3. Games and sports equipment (1) as claimed in claim 2 wherein: the securing struts (10) form a safety cage (11) in the shape of an icosahedron consisting of several vertical securing struts making the shape of an icosahedron around the thread surface (2).

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