An architectural structure is made of one or more walls, each wall consisting of a lattice of rigid cells hingedly interconnected and supported by frame members. The cells may have holes sized and constructed to make the walls suitable for playground equipment.

A portable, safety, play furniture assembly with a relatively lightweight chair body (10) and a chair base (12) for supporting the chair body (10) against rolling or tipping. The chair body (10) has a smooth, closed, concave, preferably cylindrical interior surface (14) and a depth (10) which is approximately no less than half of the width or diameter (18) of the body (10). The chair base 12 has legs (24A, 24B) with feet (26A, 26B) that are part of a single planar foot (26C) which substantially ...

A pair of U-shaped spring bands pivoted together with a longitudinal pivot and connected by a chain along one side. The spring bands engage the crossed wrists of the user causing him to use his hands oppositely from normal when performing such things as bouncing and catching a ball, catching a ballon, lacing and tieing shoes, writing names, folding and ripping paper, threading needles, and the like.

A precision tether adjuster for use with a rebound board, an exercising device including the tether adjuster, and a method for achieving high levels of aerobic exercise in an enjoyable fashion using the device. The device includes a rebound board, and a precision tether adjuster having first strip of hook-and-loop fastening material attached to the rebound board, and a tether having a first end attached to a ball and a second end attached to a second, mating strip of hook-and-loop fastening mate...

Three large rubber or other elastomeric bands in the form of three closed loops have respective ends tied together. In another form of the invention their ends are bound by a slip knot (or other knot) to a central flexible or rigid ring. For sport or for exercise, three players have at least a portion of their bodies (waist, feet, hands) engaged by the other respective ends of the bands. Each player then tries to pull away from the central connection and toward a specified goal so that he will b...

A trampoline includes an inflated elastomeric toroid, such as a tire inner tube, provided with taut top and bottom webs interconnected by straps extending between the webs about the tube outer surface. A stabilizer against tipping is separably associated with the trampoline and extends around the tube outer underface. Examples of stabilizers are circumferentially spaced hollow stackable wedge shaped foot pieces separably connected at their inner ends to the bottom web and engaging the tube under...

A game apparatus 10 for forming initial couplets for use in a game wherein players associate names of individuals with such initial couplets. Apparatus 10 provides for set selection disks 23 in connection with indicator 24 to distinguish sets of individuals from the larger set or pool of all individuals whose names satisfy the criteria of the initial couplets. The initial couplet strips 20 are slideably inserted into channels 21 formed in game board 11. Disks 23 are concentrically mounted with o...

Simulated observation flight apparatus includes a cabin mounted for passenger transportation to very high tower observation deck. The cabin houses display means producing a window-type display, display storage devices to play a real-life panorama or other picture, remote microprocessors to control display storage devices and to produce computer generated pictures on said display means, a CPU to control the cabin movement, to synchronize the display change with the movement of the cabin and to co...

A game apparatus used for competitive scoring by at least two players includes granular material, such as sand, corn, wheat, rice, and the like, arranged in a pile or body in depth. The players alternately position respective game pieces in the form of elongated members that are resilient or have resilient portions under the surface of the quantity of granular material by holding opposite end portions thereof, stretching same, inserting the stretched game pieces into the granular material, and r...

The disclosure relates to a flying toy which permits realistic control of a toy airplane, doll or the like wherein the toy is suspended from a sleeve or bearing through which pass a pair of filaments which are fixed together on a wall or the like at one end and are hand held at their other end. By moving apart the filaments and holding the filaments at a level below that at which they are attached to the wall, the toy can be made to travel uphill along the filaments. The forward nose of the toy ...