Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Projectile backstop
Patent
1995-03-30
1996-05-28
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Projectile backstop
A63B 6900
Patent
active
055203973
ABSTRACT:
The invention comprises a volley ball gravity feed practice striking apparatus. The apparatus has a basket at one end for storing volley balls, and a volley ball guideway at the other end, with a triggering mechanism between for advancing volley balls from the basket onto the guideway. The apparatus is adapted to be positioned at the upper end of a pole or standard, with the basket adjacent the pole and with the basket and guideway inclined slightly downward and away from the pole, with the pole mounted on a movable platform so that the pole and apparatus may be positioned on a volley ball court or floor parallel in length to a volley ball net stretched in operative use across the floor. The basket is of a size to receive a plurality of volley balls. The triggering mechanism may be operated to advance volley balls, one at a time, from the basket onto the inclined guideway, with the inclination being sufficient to cause the volley ball once on the guideway to gravitate downward along and forward at an incline toward the outer forward end of the guideway and off the forward end of the guideway. A person or player may advance toward the apparatus and net so as to time their reaching the outer end of the guideway when a volley ball, advanced by the triggering mechanism, reaches the outer end of the guideway, the person may strike the volley ball to practice spiking the ball over the net.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3897950 (1975-08-01), Keller
patent: 4798390 (1989-01-01), Dooley
Grieb William H.
Kleve Robert E.
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