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US 4,629,065 AGranted
Baseball equipment holder
OwnerDonald L. Braateninventor
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Abstract
A baseball equipment holder comprising an elongate tubular housing that can have a diameter sufficient to accommodate a plurality of playing balls in side-by-side relationship. A plurality of longitudinally aligned openings open to the housing to retain a plurality of baseball bats. Hanger members extend from the housing for suspending items of baseball equipment. The housing is connectable to upright structure such as a chain link fence.
Claims25
A baseball equipment holder comprising:
- an elongate tubular, generally cylindrical housing having an interior diameter sufficient to accommodate a plurality of playing balls in side-by-side relationship and having at least one open end for insertion and withdrawal of balls;
- means to connect the housing to upright structure with a longitudinal axis in generally horizontal orientation;
- a plurality of longitudinally aligned side openings on a side of the housing that are horizontally facing when the housing is connected to upright structure, each side opening being partially defined by a lower edge;
- a hanger member constituted as a circumferential extension of the housing extending from the lower edge of each opening into the opening for hanging a piece of baseball equipment;
- a bottom opening associated with each side opening, being downwardly facing and of a transverse dimension sufficient to accommodate the shank of a baseball bat near the knob end thereof but restrict passage of the knob end, intersecting the side opening at a location wider than the knob end of a bat whereby a baseball bat can be retained in depending relationship by the bottom opening and inserted and removed by the side opening.
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A baseball equipment holder comprising:
- an elongate tubular housing having an interior diameter sufficient to accommodate a plurality of playing balls in side-by-side relationship and having at least one open end for insertion and withdrawal of balls;
- a plurality of longitudinally aligned side openings on a side of the housing, each being partially defined by a lower edge;
- a hanger member extending from the lower edge of each opening into the opening for hanging a piece of baseball equipment;
- a bottom opening associated with each side opening, being downwardly open and intersecting the side opening and of a size sufficient to accommodate the shank of a baseball bat near the knob end thereof but restrict passage of the knob end whereby a baseball bat can be retained by the bottom opening;
- means to connect the housing to upright structure including first and second S-hooks connected to the housing proximate the first and second ends thereof and having hook loops engageable with the upright structure;
- releasable closure means at one end of the housing including a pair of diametrically opposed holes proximate the end of the housing, a slit extending from the housing end to a first of the holes, an endless loop elastic binder looped through the second of the holes and having a portion insertable through the slit to the first hole to be retained therein to close the end of the housing.
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A baseball equipment holder comprising:
- generally cylindrical tubular housing means having a diameter sufficient to accommodate a plurality of playing balls in side-by-side relationship, a plurality of playing balls located in side-by-side relationship in the tubular housing means, said tubular means having a plurality of horizontally facing side openings and downwardly facing bottom openings connected to the side openings for retention of a plurality of bats, a hanger member upwardly extended into each side opening to support baseball equipment thereon, a baseball bat having a handle end with a shank and a knob end wider than the shank, said side openings having a horizontal dimension wider than the knob end of the bat, said bottom opening having a width less than the knob end of the bat and greater than the shank whereby the bat end is insertable and removable through the side opening and is stored in depending relationship by the bottom opening, and means to releasably suspend the tubular housing means from upright structure.
A baseball equipment holder comprising:
- an elongate tubular cylindrical housing having a longitudinal axis;
- means connecting the housing to generally upright structure with said housing axis in generally horizontal orientation;
- at least one baseball bat of the type having a reduced shank portion and a knob end connected to and wider than the reduced shank portion;
- said housing having a plurality of bat-mounting openings for retention of a plurality of baseball bats, each said opening having a first horizontally facing portion and a second downwardly facing portion connected in intersecting relationship to the first portion, said first portion having a horizontal transverse dimension greater than the knob width to permit passage of the knob end of the baseball bat into and out of the interior of the housing, said second portion having a transverse dimension sufficient to permit passage of the shank portion of a baseball bat adjacent the knob end and restrict passage of the knob end whereby a baseball bat can be suspended by the knob end from the opening;
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- a plurality of hook members connected to the housing in depending relationship for hanging items of baseball equipment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.