Portable basketball set
AssigneeThe Ohio Art Company
InventorsLowell T. Wilson, Herbert A. Plassmann
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Abstract
A preschool knock-down portable indoor basketball set comprising a sponge-rubber ball and a weighted vertically adjustable stand for a basket with a removable bounce-board.The weighted base of the stand has an annular socket for one end of a pair of telescopic tubes, adjustable in length by a pin through diametric holes in the tubes. The upper end of the inner telescopic tube has a cap and net ring member, which cap has an annular reinforced socket for the upper tube end, which ring has hidden hooks for suspending a frusto-conical string basket, and intermediate of the cap and ring, has a wedging slot in a vertical plane into which a trapezoidal notch on the lower edge of a bounce-board removably fits.
Claims12
A basketball set comprising:
- (A) a resilient foam plastic ball, and
- (B) a basket stand comprising:
- 1. a weighted base having an annular socket therein,
- 2. a vertical tubular pole member with its lower end fitting into said socket,
- 3. means for adjusting the length of said pole member,
- 4. means having a socket for fitting the upper end of said pole member, a horizontal adjacent ring with hook means, and a slot means in a vertical plane between said socket and said ring,
- 5. a flexible net attached to said hook means and forming a receiver for said ball below said ring,
- 6. a vertical bounceboard having a notch in its lower edge for fitting into said slot means.
A stand for a ball set comprising:
- (A) a weighted base having an annular socket, said base comprising:
- a pair of plastic disc-shaped members, one of which is flat having a central cylindrical upstanding plug portion and the other of which is a spherical segment dome having an axial cylindrical aperture of larger diameter than said plug portion for forming an annular socket between said plug and said aperture, and
- (B) a post having a vertical tubular end which seats in said socket.
A toy basketball assembly set comprising:
- (A) a foam rubber ball, and
- (B) a basket stand comprising:
- 1. a weighted base having an annular socket,
- 2. telescopic vertical tubes, one end of one of which seats into said socket, at least one of said tubes having a plurality of axially spaced diametrically alignable holes,
- 3. a pin means for fitting in said diametrically aligned holes for fastening the length of said tubes,
- 4. a tube cap and ring member capping the other end of said tubes, having a horizontal reinforced ring with a plurality of radially inwardly extending hooks, and having upwardly converging wedge slots in a vertical plane between said cap and said ring,
- 5. a frusto-conical string net attached at its larger diameter end to said hooks to depend from said ring, and
- 6. a vertical bounceboard having a trapezoidal notch in its central lower edge for removably fitting into said slots in said cap and ring member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.