Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1978-09-29
1980-11-04
Pinkham, Richard C.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273392, 273402, A63B 6100
Patent
active
042315727
ABSTRACT:
A target for practicing the game of tennis which includes a frame having an opening through which a tennis ball may be driven by a player, the frame being adapted to be detachably mounted in an upright operative position on an installed tennis net so as to extend upwardly from the upper edge of the net, the frame being attached to the upper ends of a pair of downwardly depending, laterally spaced posts which are arranged to be interwoven within the meshes of the net with a hook being also provided on the upper ends of the posts for overlying hooking engagement with the upper edge of the net together with a spring between the upper end of each post and the frame for yieldingly urging the frame into the upright position so that when struck by a tennis ball, the force of the ball is absorbed by pivotal movement of the frame against the urging force of the springs.
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patent: 2819903 (1958-01-01), Saunders
patent: 3464695 (1969-09-01), Chock
patent: 3993306 (1976-11-01), Scott
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Pinkham Richard C.
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