Patent ID: 8012065

Claim:
A trampoline adapted for ready assembly comprising: a plurality of upright leg members; a trampoline frame supported by the upright leg members, the frame including a plurality of tubular members that when coupled together form a structure to which a trampoline sheet is attached, a plurality of hollow generally T-shaped couplers each coupling two adjacent tubular members end-to-end, each of the T-shaped couplers further being adapted to couple respective ends of the two adjacent tubular members to one of the upright leg members, neither manufacture of the coupler nor the manner of the coupler's coupling between the tubular members and the upright leg member requiring welds, the coupler including a hollow cross piece adapted to couple in female fashion with respective male ends of the two tubular members, and a hollow upright piece extending from an underside of and intersecting the cross piece and adapted to receive in female fashion a male end of the upright leg member, both the underside of the cross piece and sides of the upright piece being of split form along their respective lengths, the upright piece being provided with location regions adapted to cooperate with corresponding location regions on the male end of the upright leg member to locate the upright leg member in a predetermined position longitudinally relative to the upright piece, and fixings adapted to draw the split sides together, thereby both to tighten the cross piece about the tubular members, and the upright piece about the male end of the upright leg member.