Patent ID: 7708667

Claim:
A trampoline and enclosure system including: a flexible mat; a plurality of resiliently flexible spring rods each having a lower end retained by a frame of the trampoline and an upper end coupled to the mat about a periphery of the mat each rod extending from the frame upwards towards the mat at an incline so as to support the mat above the frame of the trampoline; a barrier of a flexible material surrounding the mat above the mat and having a lower peripheral part coupled directly or indirectly to the mat; and a plurality of generally upright enclosure support members outside of the barrier relative to the mat which are resiliently flexible over at least the major part of the lengths thereof and which are retained at or towards the lower ends of the enclosure support members and which support the barrier above the mat, which are free to deform away from the mat when impacted by a user against an enclosure support member and/or against said barrier of flexible material, the barrier connecting together the enclosure support members at or towards an upper peripheral edge part of the barrier and at or towards the upper ends of the enclosure members so that at least said upper peripheral part of the barrier is in tension and so that such resilient deformation of one of the enclosure support members away from the mat causes resilient deformation of opposite enclosure support members towards the mat.