US 12,377,334 B2
Climbing wall with movable wall panel
Joseph Sweeney, Minneapolis, MN (US); Timothy S. Sudeith, Edina, MN (US); Sarah Mae Howard, Lakeville, MN (US); and Nicolas Oklobzija, White Bear Lake, MN (US)
Assigned to Everlast Climbing Industries, Inc., Crystal, MN (US)
Filed by Everlast Climbing Industries, Inc., Crystal, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/232,515.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/397,099, filed on Aug. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0050827 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. A63B 69/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 69/0048 (2013.01) [A63B 2225/09 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A climbing wall assembly comprising:
a first wall portion;
a second wall portion;
one or more actuators configured to change an angle of
(a) the first wall portion,
(b) the second wall portion, or
(c) both (a) and (b);
a movable wall panel having a first side and a second side, the first side being hingedly connected to the first wall portion and the second side being slidably and hingedly connected to the second wall portion;
wherein the climbing wall is configured so that (i) increasing an angle between the first wall portion and the second wall portion causes the second side of the movable wall panel to slide toward the first wall portion, thereby bringing the movable wall panel toward an open position and (ii) decreasing an angle between the first wall portion and the second wall portion causes the second side of the movable wall panel to slide away from the first wall portion, thereby bringing the movable wall panel toward a closed position; and
wherein a front face of the first wall portion, a front face of the second wall portion, and a front face of the movable wall panel provide a substantially continuous climbing surface throughout a range between the open position and the closed position of the movable wall panel.