Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1988-05-05
1992-03-24
Shapiro, Paul E.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
211 86, 211 99, 232 1B, 232 431, 273 15R, A63B 6308, A45C 1100
Patent
active
050981080
ABSTRACT:
A clothes hamper (10) includes a backboard (12) configured and decorated to resemble a basketball backboard. Brackets (18) support the backboard at the top of a door. First and second generally S-shaped hooks, each having a first U-shaped configuration at one end of the S for fitting over the top edge of a door, the portion over the door edge being flattened sufficiently to enable the door to be closed with the hook over the top thereof and a second U-shaped configuration at the other end of the S in inverted relationship to the first U-shaped end for extending through the apertures of the spaced frame brackets so as to support the backboard in a vertical orientation on the door. A hoop (26) configured to resemble a basketball goal is supported on the backboard by a unitary mounting plate for pivotally attaching the hoop to the lower half of the frame. The mounting plate comprises a flat upper portion located above the U-shaped mounting projection and attached to the frame; an arcuate center portion integrally formed with the flat upper portion and having a mating fit over the closed end of the U-shaped mounting projection; and a horizontally projecting shoulder on each side of the arcuate center portion for supporting the legs of the U-shaped mounting projection to hold the hoop in a horizontal position perpendicular to the backboard but allowing the hoop to freely pivot only in the upward direction against the frame for storage purposes. The hoop, and in turn supports a mesh clothes receiving net (38) that extends vertically downwardly therefrom. The lower end of the mesh net is normally closed by a drawstring (42).
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Charlico, Inc.
O'Neil Michael A.
Shapiro Paul E.
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