Cable hook tracking system
View Patent ↗An apparatus and method of traversing across elements of a challenge course by use of a tracking system that can continuously retain the harness cable that descends to the participant, as the moveable member moves in a substantially horizontal direction along the safety cables, or along the tracks of the moveable member exchange frame.
1. A cable hook tracking system for a support structure comprising:
a moveable member ( 10 ) having an aperture ( 20 ) disposed in an upper rectangular portion ( 25 ) of said moveable member ( 10 ) and a harness cable attachment portion ( 30 ) that extends downward from said upper rectangular portion ( 25 ), said harness cable attachment portion ( 30 ) terminating in a lower portion ( 34 ) having a harness cable hole ( 36 ), said moveable member ( 10 ) further having a glide ( 35 ) that is disposed substantially between said aperture ( 20 ) and the lower portion ( 34 ) of the harness cable attachment portion ( 30 );
a moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) secured to the support structure ( 40 ), said moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) having a moveable member junction ( 55 )
said moveable member junction ( 55 ) extends substantially horizontally away from the support structure ( 40 ), said moveable member junction having a safety cable attachment member ( 60 ) secured to a horizontally oriented rectangular shaped, plate-like rib ( 63 ) that is secured to said moveable member junction ( 55 );
said moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) having an inner track ( 90 ) adjacent to and secured to said support structure ( 40 ), said moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) also having an outer track ( 80 ) fixed to an arm lower portion ( 95 ), said arm lower portion ( 95 ) extends upward and radially inward terminating in an arm upper portion ( 97 ) that is fixed to said support structure ( 40 ), each of said tracks ( 80 ), ( 90 ) having an upper surface ( 100 ), ( 110 ) that is substantially on the same plane as the other respective upper surface ( 110 ), ( 100 ), further, said outer track ( 80 ) is spaced concentric with and radially away from said inner track ( 90 ) so as to define a slot ( 130 ) between said inner track ( 90 ) and said outer track ( 80 ), further, said outer track ( 80 ) has a separation ( 120 ) adaptable to receive said lower portion ( 34 ) theretrough and into said slot ( 130 );
a safety cable ( 82 ) removeably secured to said safety cable attachment member ( 60 ); and
whereby said moveable member ( 10 ) can be moved from the safety cable ( 82 ) to the moveable member junction ( 55 ) past said rib ( 63 ) and past said safety cable attachment member ( 60 ) so said glide ( 35 ) moveably engages with both said inner track ( 90 ) and said outer track ( 80 ) so that said moveable member ( 10 ) can be moved along the tracks ( 80 , 90 ) to a second moveable member junction.
2. A cable hook tracking system for a support structure comprising:
a moveable member ( 10 ) having an aperture ( 20 ) disposed in an upper rectangular portion ( 25 ) of said moveable member ( 10 ) and a harness cable attachment portion ( 30 ) that extends downward from said upper rectangular portion ( 25 ), said harness cable attachment portion ( 30 ) terminating in a lower portion ( 34 ) having a harness cable hole ( 36 ), said moveable member ( 10 ) further having a glide ( 35 ) that is disposed substantially between said aperture ( 20 ) and the lower portion ( 34 ) of the harness cable attachment portion ( 30 );
a moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) integral with the support structure ( 40 ), said moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) having a moveable member junction ( 55 )
said moveable member junction ( 55 ) extends substantially horizontally away from the support structure ( 40 ), said moveable member junction having a safety cable attachment member ( 60 ) secured to a horizontally oriented rectangular shaped, plate-like rib ( 63 ) that is secured to said moveable member junction ( 55 );
said moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) having an inner track ( 90 ) adjacent to and secured to said support structure ( 40 ), said moveable member exchange frame ( 50 ) also having an outer track ( 80 ) fixed to an arm lower portion ( 95 ), said arm lower portion ( 95 ) extends upward and radially inward terminating in an arm upper portion ( 97 ) that is fixed to said support structure ( 40 ), each of said tracks ( 80 ), ( 90 ) having an upper surface ( 100 ), ( 110 ) that is substantially on the same plane as the other respective upper surface ( 110 ), ( 100 ), further, said outer track ( 80 ) is spaced concentric with and radially away from said inner track ( 90 ) so as to define a slot ( 130 ) between said inner track ( 90 ) and said outer track ( 80 ), further, said outer track ( 80 ) has a separation ( 120 ) adaptable to receive said lower portion ( 34 ) theretrough and into said slot ( 130 );
a safety cable ( 82 ) removeably secured to said safety cable attachment member ( 60 ); and
whereby said moveable member ( 10 ) can be moved from the safety cable ( 82 ) to the moveable member junction ( 55 ) past said rib ( 63 ) and past said safety cable attachment member ( 60 ) so said glide ( 35 ) moveably engages with both said inner track ( 90 ) and said outer track ( 80 ) so that said moveable member ( 10 ) can be moved along the tracks ( 80 , 90 ) to a second moveable member junction ( 55 ′).
3. The cable hook tracking system for a support structure of claim 1 , further comprising:
said moveable member exchange frame being removeably secured to the support structure.
4. The cable hook tracking system for a support structure of claim 1 , further comprising:
Said moveable member exchange frame being fixedly secured to said support structure.