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US 5,451,046 AGranted
Flag football equipment
OwnerRodney Battoninventor
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Abstract
Flag football equipment wherein a soft foam rubber football includes helical finger receiving gripping grooves containing loop fabric fasteners, a waist encircling belt including a plurality of detachable flags containing loop fabric fasteners, and a glove including hook fabric fasteners for interlocking engagement with the loop fabric fasteners on the football and flags. The football may also include whistles located at a point midway between its ends, and the loop fabric fasteners may be colored with a non-toxic fluorescent glow-type coating.
Claims16
Flag football game equipment comprising:
- a belt with a plurality of interlocking fasteners at its ends;
- a plurality of flags detachably secured to said belt and capable of swinging freely therefrom by attachment means comprising co-acting hook fabric fasteners on said belt and loop fabric fasteners on said flags;
- an elliptical football formed of foam rubber, having two ends and a plurality of longitudinally extending elliptic-helical grooves substantially equally spaced apart around the periphery of said football, said grooves being wide and deep enough to receive the gripping fingers of a player therein, some of said grooves containing a loop material for interlocking engagement with a catching glove;
- and a catching glove including hook fabric fasteners adapted for interlocking engagement with the loop fabric fasteners on said football and flags.
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