US 12,226,686 B2
Play structure with a mesh panel
Peter Christian Løvfold Grønfeldt, Odense SØ (DK)
Assigned to KOMPAN A/S, Odense SØ (DK)
Appl. No. 17/753,407
Filed by KOMPAN A/S, Odense SØ (DK)
PCT Filed Sep. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/074550
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 2, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/043877, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. PA 2019 70553 (DK), filed on Sep. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0288438 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 9/00 (2006.01); A63B 69/00 (2006.01); A63G 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 9/00 (2013.01) [A63B 69/0048 (2013.01); A63B 2009/006 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A play structure for children, said play structure being a tall climbing structure comprising:
a central tower mainly built up of a plurality of vertically arranged pillars, the plurality of vertically arranged pillars including two vertically arranged pillars;
vertically arranged panel elements fastened to the plurality of vertically arranged pillars to form wall panels, the vertically arranged panel elements including a first vertically arranged panel element and a second vertically arranged panel element, the first vertically arranged panel element connected between the two vertically arranged pillars; and
horizontally arranged panel elements to function as floor panels;
wherein each of the two vertically arranged pillars is longer than 2 m, and said first vertically arranged panel element is arranged such that its upper edge is located higher than 2 m from a bottom of the two vertically arranged pillars,
wherein said first vertically arranged panel element comprises a rectangular frame comprising a top and a bottom horizontally arranged frame member and a left and a right vertically arranged frame member, said top, bottom, left and right frame members together defining an enclosed area, said enclosed area being greater than 0.5 m2 and said enclosed area being filled with a mesh structure made from elongated metal elements arranged in a repeating pattern, each of the elongated metal elements being fastened to at least two different frame members of the top, bottom, left, and right frame members, and
wherein a diameter of a largest inscribed circle between any adjacent frame members of the top, bottom, left, and right frame members and/or elongated metal elements is either i) less than 65 mm and greater than 20 mm, or ii) less than 11 mm.