Hedstrom Corporation

Brown Group Recreational Products, Inc.

Hedstrom Co.

Diversified Products, Inc.

Bedstrom Corporation

William H Ziegler, Jr

Joel C Cunard

Robert J Boudreau

Russell J Coddington, Jr

D Scott Saxman

Gary L Lochner

James Kemp

Frederick M Rieber

Stephen W Smith

Steven Hanson

Raymond W Boucher

Jack B Jarriel

An attachment for attaching the upper end of a swing device to a raised top bar. The attachment includes a pair of arcuate slide sections having opposite ends in mating engagement to form a circular slide, a U-bolt having a pair of parallel threaded end segments connected by a curved bridging portion slidably engaged in the slide, a generally V-shaped saddle bracket whose arms have first ends connected by a saddle, spaced-apart second ends containing through holes for receiving the end segments of the U-bolt and a pair of opposing sliders projecting from the bracket arms for slidably engaging in the slide, and at least one nut for threadedly engaging an end segment of the U-bolt. The attachment enables a chain or other swing suspension device that is secured to the bracket to pivot 360&deg; around the top bar.

Swing attachment

A hardware kit for erecting a children's wood play tower of the type including a plurality of vertical support beams, a plurality of stretchers and a plurality of roof joists. The kit includes roof brackets, eave brackets and stretcher brackets and may include a multiplicity of fasteners for attaching the brackets to the beams comprising the play tower. The brackets are designed so that it is not necessary to notch or miter the beams in order to join the beams.

Wood play tower kit

Wood play tower with ball enclosure

Children's play tower

Pyramid-type swing support

Playtower climber

Swing support

A kit for assembling wood legs to form an A-frame to support the end of a cross beam for a children's play gym includes a trapezoidal frame bracket to connect the upper ends of the legs to each other and to the cross beam and a special frame brace for reinforcing that connection which will accommodate a tubular metal cross beam or a cross beam consisting of a single board or a plurality of boards. The frame brace has a generally rectangular top wall and a pair of laterally spaced apart side walls extending down from the top wall at an angle such that the side walls have more or less the same slope as the side edges of the frame bracket. Portions of the frame brace top wall define a first set of holes spaced apart along the longitudinal centerline of the top wall, there being two such holes in the first set and a second set of holes containing at least two holes spaced along the top wall on each side of that centerline. There also may be a third set of holes containing at least two holes spaced along the top wall on each side of the centerline and being displaced from the second set of holes. The kit also includes fasteners arranged to extend through the first set of holes into the cross beam when the cross beam is a unitary member and through the second and third sets of holes into the cross beam when the cross beam is of wood so that the same hardware can be used to construct play gyms having a variety of different type cross beams.

Play gym construction

Children's play gym

A basketball goal assembly for mounting on a door frame, door, column or the like in which a support member, such as a backboard, having a hoop secured thereto is height adjustable relative to the floor. The support member, which may be a backboard, includes parallel slots formed adjacent to opposed sides thereof so that it may be frictionally slidably mounted to the door or the like by threading a strap through the slots and attaching the strap ends to the door. U-shaped brackets adapted to engage with opposed edges of a door frame, door or the like may be used to attach the strap ends to the door. A goal including basketball hoop is pivotally secured to the support member or backboard. The installed goal assembly permits friction restrained movement of the hoop to any number of vertical positions along the mounting surface, while frictionally maintaining the hoop in a fixed vertical position during normal use.

Adjustable basketball goal assembly

Knock-down tricycle

A knock-down tricycle has its main structural parts made of stamped metal or molded components which are relatively inexpensive to fabricate and which, when disassembled, occupy a minimum volume allowing the tricycle to be shipped in a knocked-down condition in a minimum size package. The various components of the tricycle can be assembled easily using simple tools and, when assembled, they form a tricycle which is unusually strong and sturdy.

Riding toy

Children's climber and swing support

Growing community of inventors

Bedford, PA, United States of America

William H Ziegler, Jr