Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1994-01-18
1995-02-28
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273396, 273397, 273401, 273402, A63B 6900
Patent
active
053930495
ABSTRACT:
A basketball practice system comprising a backboard made of a rigid or semi-rigid material and having a generally a planar configuration is disclosed. A frame structure is secured to the backboard and helps to support a guiding net configured and dimensioned to guide a basketball into a narrow port defined by the guiding net. Cross braces are secured between the frame structure and the backboard in order to give rigidity to the frame. Side deflection structure deflects balls which are moving to the left or right, away from the system and guiding them into the guiding net. This deflecting structure may comprise nets. A basketball net is positioned above the narrow port and a bendable tubular guiding member, which comprises a bendable tubular member has a spiral backbone and a skin secured to the spiral backbone, is coupled to the narrow port and configured to receive a ball and guide it toward a player using the inventive basketball practice system is disclosed.
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