Wood glider with outboard supports, wood glider with outboard supports and canopy, and wood glider with cross member and support interconnection

Abstract

A glider includes first and second ground-engaging wooden supports, and a wooden bench seat suspended from the wooden supports. The wooden supports are located outboard of the wooden bench seat. In one aspect, the glider also includes a wooden cross-member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support. In another aspect, the glider also includes a canopy extending upward from the first and second wooden supports and over the wooden bench seat. In another aspect, each of the wooden supports has an aperture. The wooden cross-member extends through each aperture. In another aspect, the wooden cross-member extends through and beyond each aperture. At least a portion of the wooden cross-member that extends beyond the apertures of the wooded supports provides a connection location for the canopy.

Having described the invention, the following is claimed:  
     
         1 . A glider including: 
 first and second ground-engaging wooden supports;    a wooden bench seat suspended from the wooden supports, with the wooden supports being located outboard of the wooden bench seat; and    a wooden cross-member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support.    
     
     
         2 . A glider as set forth in  claim 1 , further including a canopy extending upward from the first and second wooden supports and over the wooden bench seat.  
     
     
         3 . A glider as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein each of the wooden supports has an aperture, and the wooden cross-member extending through each aperture.  
     
     
         4 . A glider as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the wooden cross-member is a first wooden cross-member, and the glider includes a second wooded cross member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support.  
     
     
         5 . A glider as set forth in  claim 4 , wherein each of the wooden supports has at least one aperture, and each of the first and second wooden cross-members extending through an aperture at each of the wooden supports.  
     
     
         6 . A glider as set forth in  claim 5 , further including a canopy extending upward from the first and second wooden supports and over the wooden bench seat, and at least one of the wooden cross-members extends outboard of the first and second wooden supports and provides a connection locations for the canopy.  
     
     
         7 . A glider as set forth in  claim 6 , wherein both wooden cross-members extend outboard of the first and second wooden supports, with the cross members distanced from each other to provide spaces, between the outboard extensions of the cross-members, that receive the canopy for the connection.  
     
     
         8 . A glider including: 
 first and second ground-engaging wooden supports;    a wooden bench seat suspended from the wooden supports, with the wooden supports being located outboard of the wooden bench seat; and    a canopy extending upward from the first and second wooden supports and over the wooden bench seat.    
     
     
         9 . A glider as set forth in  claim 8 , further including a wooden cross-member that extends from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support and provides connection locations for the canopy.  
     
     
         10 . A glider as set forth in  claim 9 , wherein each of the wooden supports has an aperture, and the wooden cross-member extends through each aperture.  
     
     
         11 . A glider as set forth in  claim 10 , wherein the wooden cross-member is a first wooden cross-member, and the glider includes a second wooded cross member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support, both of wooden cross-members extend outboard of the first and second wooden supports and provide connection locations for the canopy.  
     
     
         12 . A glider as set forth in  claim 11 , wherein the cross members are distanced from each other to provide spaces, between the outboard extensions of the cross-members, that receive the canopy for the connection.  
     
     
         13 . A glider including: 
 first and second ground-engaging wooden supports;    a wooden bench seat suspended from the wooden supports, with the wooden supports being located outboard of the wooden bench seat; and    a wooden cross-member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support, each of the wooden supports having an aperture, the wooden cross-member extending through each aperture.    
     
     
         14 . A glider as set forth in  claim 13 , wherein the wooden cross-member is a first wooden cross-member, and the glider includes a second wooded cross member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support.  
     
     
         15 . A glider as set forth in  claim 14 , wherein the aperture in each of the wooden supports is a first aperture, each of the wooded supports having a second aperture spaced from the first aperture, each of the two wooden cross-members extending through a respective aperture.  
     
     
         16 . A glider as set forth in  claim 15 , wherein both of wooden cross-members extend outboard of the first and second wooden supports and provide connection locations for the canopy.  
     
     
         17 . A glider as set forth in  claim 16 , wherein the connection locations for the canopy are spaces between the outboard extensions of the first and second wooded extensions.  
     
     
         18 . A glider including: 
 first and second ground-engaging wooden supports;    a wooden bench seat suspended from the wooden supports, with the wooden supports being located outboard of the wooden bench seat;    a wooden cross-member extending from the first ground-engaging support to the second ground-engaging support, each of the wooden supports having an aperture, the wooden cross-member extending through and beyond each aperture; and    a canopy extending upward from the first and second wooden supports and over the wooden bench seat, at least a portion of the wooden cross-member that extends beyond the apertures of the wooded supports providing a connection location for the canopy.