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US 4,151,994 AGranted
Game footbag
OwnerRobert J. Stalberger, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A game footbag designed to be kicked repeatedly into the air discloses a durable, flexible cover having a generally spherical shape when fully expanded and partially filled with material having substantially fluid characteristics. The cover consists of two dogbone-shaped pieces of flexible material attached together at their peripheries so as to form a collapsible ball. The fluid material includes a large plurality of small polythylene particles having low resilience. The interaction of the cover with the fluid-like material results in a footbag having a slow-action and uniform response to kicking.
Claims5
A game footbag comprising
- a pair of web-like, matching, generally figure-eight-shaped cover portions each formed of an abrasion-resistent, unitary, leather-like pliable material,
- securing means defining a continuous seam stitching together the peripheries of said cover portions, with margins thereof drawn together and disposed in face-to-face abutting relationship along and projecting toward one side of said seam, said joined cover portions forming a pliantly changeable-configuration, generally spherical chamber having a diameter no greater than three inches with said projecting margins extending into said chamber, and
- fluid, particulate, pellets of polyethylene filler material disposed within said chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.