Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1991-01-18
1991-11-12
Brown, Theatrice
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273 29A, 273181A, 273375, 273176B, 273389, 273390, 273402, 273410, A63B 6900
Patent
active
050641948
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for use in practicing pitching of baseballs to enable the user to improve pitching accuracy and to indicate pitched balls delivered within a strike zone having a vertical backboard with a rectangular opening therethrough, four trapezoidal shaped wings secured to the backboard and serving to form an opening defining a strike zone, each of the wings being pivotal when engaged by a baseball, electrical contacts activated as each trapezoidal wing is pivoted when struck by a baseball and electrical indicators for signaling when a baseball strikes one of the trapezoidal wings to indicate that the baseball has been pitched high, low, inside or outside of the strike zone.
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Bixler Dickie R.
Bixler Matthew R.
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