Basketball practice net
OwnerHart H. Luebkemaninventor
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Abstract
An improved basketball practice device to be attached to and beneath the hoops of existing basketball goals and adapted to direct basketballs passed through said hoops to a play area in front of said goals to improve the shooting ability of youths.
Claims1
In a basketball goal assembly including a backboard and a hoop mounted thereon, the combination therewith of a basketball practice return device comprising a downwardly extending, forwardly inclined ball deflector frame having a pair of forwardly divergent ball guide plates, cross plates connected to the pair of ball guide plates, a pair of detachable means connecting the upper narrow end of the frame closely subjacent the hoop, a series of downwardly extending, inwardly inclined wire link chains, each detachably connected at its upper end to the hoop and each chain having its lower end connected to a guide plate of the frame, cross wire link chains interconnecting the downwardly extending, inwardly inclined wire link chains, the forward chains for each guide plate forming with the wide end of the frame a ball exit opening that is disposed within the vertical boundary lines of the hoop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.