Patent ID: 8105173

Claim:
A slide assembly operable to be erected on a site, said slide assembly comprising: a slide including a slide section and presenting upper and lower ends associated with slide ingress and egress; and an adjustable-height slide base supporting the slide section and including an intermediate adapter and a lower standoff stacked in series with the slide section, said slide section presenting a lower adapter-mating surface, said adapter presenting upper and lower adapter ends, with the upper adapter end being removably mated with the lower adapter-mating surface to be interengaged and generally extend along a common adapter axis, said standoff presenting opposite upper and lower standoff ends, with the lower adapter end and the upper standoff end being removably attached relative to one another, said standoff including a lowermost site-engaging surface that presents a normal site-engaging axis generally normal thereto, with the site-engaging axis being angularly offset from the adapter axis, said upper standoff end and said lower adapter end being removably interengaged and generally extending along a common intermediate connection axis that is angularly offset from the adapter axis, with the adapter comprising a unitary wedge-shaped foot presenting fore and aft margins, said adapter including upper and lower walls that taper toward each other between the fore and aft margins, said slide section including upper and lower slide section walls, with the lower slide section wall presenting the lower adapter-mating surface, one of said lower slide section wall and said upper adapter end presenting a socket and the other of said lower slide section wall and said upper adapter end including a male projection that is received by the socket.