Trapezium-shaped frontal launcher
OwnerNouri Khalifa, Jean-Claude Ganteilleinventors
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Abstract
A device for manually sending and receiving an object such as a ball in the context of a sporting or leisure activity. This launcher is made up of two separate rigid parts (e.g. in the form of sticks) and a flexible trapezium-shaped surface by way of a sending and receiving zone. The object is received by holding the handles sufficiently close together to form a pocket to absorb the impact of the object striking the flexible surface. The object is sent by suddenly drawing the hands apart to the maximum distance permitted by the width of the flexible surface, using their natural fan-like parting movement. It is the tension created by the stretching of this surface which ejects the object and sends it very long distances with only the hands for motive force.
Claims11
A device composed:
- of a flexible part (1) having a trapezium-shaped part such that the distance between the lower ends of the flexible surface is shorter than the distance between the upper ends of said flexible surface, thereby forming a trapezium having two lateral sides of equal length and an upper side (1a) parallel to a lower side (1b) and having a greater length than said lower side (1b), of two separate rigid parts (2), for example in the form of rods, which serve as tension bars,
- and wherein the flexible part is fixed on its equal sides to each of the two rigid parts in order to maintain the lateral rigidity of the device;
- this flexible part serving as an area for catching and throwing an object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.