One-piece extension arm
AssigneeHuffy Corporation
InventorJoseph K. Bohrman
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Abstract
A one-piece extension arm for connecting a basketball backboard to a support pole including a central web portion, a pair of spaced legs, a pair of forward projections and a pair of rearward projections such that the extension arm is symmetrical about a plane that bisects and is perpendicular to the central web portion and a one-piece planar blank from which the extension arm is formed.
Claims20
Basketball goal apparatus including a backboard for supporting a rim, a support pole having an outer periphery, and a one-piece extension arm formed of a unitary material for connecting the backboard to a support pole, said one-piece extension arm comprising:
- a central web;
- a pair of spaced legs depending from and formed integrally with said web portion;
- at least one forward projection having means for connecting the arm to the backboard, said forward projection depending from and formed integrally with said unitary material;
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- a first rearward projection for connecting the arm to the support pole, said rearward projection depending from and formed integrally with one of said legs, and being shaped to correspond to at least a portion of the outer periphery of the support pole and yieldable to cooperate with the other of said legs to clamp the extension arm to the support pole.
Basketball goal apparatus comprising a basketball backboard, a support pole, a bracket formed of a unitary material having an elongated web, a pair of spaced legs formed integrally with and connected to said elongated web, means formed integrally with one end of said bracket for attaching said bracket to the backboard, and means formed integrally with the opposite end of said bracket for securing said bracket to the support pole, said bracket having a substantially planar, preformed stage and a non-planar, formed stage in which said legs, said attaching means, and said securing means are angled relative to said web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.