Games using tangible projectile – Projectile – per se; part thereof or accessory therefor – Having fluid-retaining bladder removable from within...
Reexamination Certificate
1998-03-20
2001-07-24
Wong, Steven (Department: 3711)
Games using tangible projectile
Projectile, per se; part thereof or accessory therefor
Having fluid-retaining bladder removable from within...
C473S595000, C473S613000, C273SDIG002
Reexamination Certificate
active
06264574
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
No game ball was known to be available to a person, who, by himself or herself, could practice spiral passing and catching a football, when a play area having a vertical wall was available, against which the game ball could be impacted for subsequent opposite spiral passing return to this person practicing by himself or herself.
SUMMARY
There are times when a sportsperson wants to practice throwing a football in a way, called passing a football, which in flight is spiralling, resulting in the most accurate, higher speed, and often longest distance the football will travel to the intended target locale. Preferably the sportsperson will have the good fortune of having another sportsperson join with him or her during the practice session. However, many times there is no other person available; therefore this game ball is especially provided to be used by a person in a play area having a wall structure, such as a backstop.
The body of this game ball has an external appearance looking somewhat like a football, except having only one conical pointed end, called the trailing end, and having the other end, called the leading end, being a substantial, planar wall contacting surface. The body is made to absorb a substantial portion of the wall impact energy, and to quickly release a substantial amount of this absorbed energy, which is then directed in the opposite direction, successfully causing the body, serving as the game ball, to return in a passing opposite spiral motion to the locale, where the game ball was intentionally thrown by a person in a passing spiral motion.
The body of this game ball is preferably completely made of a plastic material which, when the game ball hits the wall, compresses and distorts, and then spring like quickly returns to a starting configuration thereof, upon reactively leaving the vertical wall, to return to the locale to be caught, or beyond, where the game ball was initially thrown in a passing spiral motion toward the vertical wall by the person practicing his or her ability to pass a football, and also to catch a football.
The body of this game ball also is made very similar to an inflatable football, having an outer cover, an internal air sealing structure, and an air valve.
Although most of the time a single player will be using the game ball in conjunction with a vertical wall, two or more players will also be using the game ball in conjunction with a vertical wall. The player passing the game ball directs the game ball, so the direction to the wall is at a limited angle, and thereafter the returning game ball follows a resulting limited angle, to reach another player, who did not initially pass the game ball toward the wall at the limited angle of deviation from a perpendicular angle.
Although the game ball does not have each of its ends pointed, the game ball is still used in practice sessions, when a vertical wall is not being used. The game ball may be used to pass among two or more players. Also, the game ball is placed on the conical end and place kicked from a kicking tee, or like support, or while it is spinning like a top on a supporting surface. Also the game ball may be place kicked when its planar surface is in contact with a supporting surface such as a lawn. Also the game ball is readily punted.
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Letters from George Dunsay dated Jan. 5, 1984.
“Foobsball” sketch; Jan. 5, 1984.
“Foobsball ” image; Jan. 5, 1984.
“Foobsball” (enlarged); Jan. 5, 1984.
McGonigle Michael E.
Nelson Webb T.
Marshall O'Toole Gerstein Murray & Borun
Play Visions, Inc.
Wong Steven
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