Patent ID: 6503174
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
An overhead hand-over-hand traversing apparatus comprising;a longitudinal bar, defining an axis of rotation and a vertical plane, extending through the center of said bar perpendicular to the ground, said bar having a proximal end and a distal end and being supported at said proximal and distal ends, said bar having a first pivoting hub and a second pivoting hub, respectively, at said proximal and distal ends; a plurality of hand bars, spaced apart along the length of said longitudinal bar and attached on both sides of said vertical plane, such that a user can traverse the length of the longitudinal bar by first grasping one of said plurality of hand bars, near said proximal end of said longitudinal bar, with one hand, and another of said plurality of hand bars with a another hand, and subsequently releasing, one at a time, each grasped hand bar to grasp another of said plurality of hand bars; said first and second pivoting hubs causing said longitudinal bar to pivot about a limited angle of rotation on said longitudinal axis, as hand bars are grasped wherein said pivoting hubs comprise a spring element such that said longitudinal bar is returned to a first unpivoted position when said hand bars are released.