Basketball hoop assembly
OwnerDaniel E. Mauroinventor
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Abstract
A basketball hoop assembly and kit is described with the assembly comprising a flexible sheet which has the shape of a backboard, a hoop mount which is secured to the front face of the sheet, a hoop which is secured to the hoop mount and a net which is secured to the hoop. The basketball hoop assembly of this invention may be mounted on a wall surface by means of the adhesive backing on the sheet and may be removed therefrom without leaving marks on the wall or residue thereon.
Claims21
A miniature basketball hoop assembly kit, comprising:
- an elongated hollow storage tube having closed ends with at least one of said ends being able to be opened to permit the contents of said tube to be removed therefrom;
- a thin flexible sheet rolled into a tubular form positioned in said tube;
- said thin flexible sheet having a front side and a back side;
- said sheet, when unrolled, having the appearance of a basketball backboard;
- said back side of said sheet having a pressure sensitive removable adhesive material thereon;
- said adhesive material being covered by a peelable member;
- said adhesive material enabling said sheet to be selectively removably secured to a wall and to be removed therefrom without leaving any marks or adhesive residue thereon;
- a hoop mount removably positioned in said tube;
- said hoop mount adapted to be secured to said front side of said sheet when said sheet is secured to the wall;
- an elongated flexible tubular member, having opposite ends, positioned in said storage tube;
- said flexible tubular member, upon being removed from said storage tube, being connectable to said hoop mount to form a basketball hoop.
A reduced-size basketball hoop assembly comprising:
- a thin flexible, plastic sheet having a front side and a back side;
- said sheet front side having the appearance of a basketball backboard;
- said back side of said sheet having a pressure sensitive removable adhesive material thereon;
- said adhesive material being covered by a peelable member for shipping purposes;
- said adhesive material enabling said sheet to be selectively removably secured to a wall and to be removed therefrom without leaving any marks or adhesive residue thereon;
- a hoop mount adhesively secured to said front side of said sheet;
- an elongated, flexible tubular member having opposite ends;
- said opposite ends of said flexible tubular member being secured to said hoop mount thereby forming a ring-shaped basketball hoop.
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The assembly of claim 21 wherein said bore has a rectangular cross-section and wherein said ends of said tubular member have a rectangular cross-section.
A reduced-size basketball hoop assembly comprising:
- a sheet having a front side and a back side;
- said sheet front side having the appearance of a basketball backboard;
- at least a portion of said back side of said sheet having a pressure sensitive removable adhesive material thereon;
- said adhesive material being covered by a peelable member for shipping purposes;
- said adhesive material enabling said sheet to be selectively removably secured to a wall and to be removed therefrom without leaving any marks or adhesive residue thereon;
- a basketball hoop secured to said front side of said sheet;
- said hoop mounting including a horizontally disposed bore having opposite ends;
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- said ends of said tubular member being inserted into said bore.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.