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US 12,039,810 B2Granted
Multi-purpose truncated pyramidal cone
OwnerJohn Andrew Wellsinventor
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A multi-purpose truncated triangular pyramidal shaped cone is used as a sports field marker having a multi-sided shape with sides sloping at approximately 102.5° upward for the support of a smartphone with camera(s) leaning against a side to provide a stable view and record a timed finish of an athlete crossing a finish line of a race. The smartphone is secured to a side of the cone by an intermediate clamp holder having tapered resilient plugs pressed into receiving holes in the cone side. In an alternate use, plural cones are used to hold ends of a horizontal hurdle bar. This bar is raised higher by stacking identical hollow cones forming a stack with a long pole extending through a hole in a flat top surface of a top truncated cone. The pole is secured along a vertical axis of the cone stack by set screws converging along their axes from holes on each side of the pyramidal cone. A bowed cradle is mounted atop the pole to hold the horizontal hurdle bar.
A combination of a smartphone with at least one camera lenses and a cone placed on the ground for use by an athlete running a timed race wearing a wrist mounted mems sensor paired with the smartphone by Bluetooth® (BLE) protocol with the smartphone aligned to lean on the cone, the combination comprising:
A combination of a smartphone with at least one camera lenses and a cone placed on the ground for use by an athlete with the smartphone aligned to lean on the cone, the combination comprising:
A combination of at least one hurdle gate comprising a horizontal hurdle bar having ends mounted by two spaced saddles with each spaced saddle separately supported by identical stacks of cones with each stack of cones mounting a pole extending vertically through at least one stack of cones, with each cone of the stack having a truncated pyramidal shape formed by at least three sides;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.