US 5,624,122 AGranted

Sport game and field

OwnerKarin-Maria K. Winkelhorninventor

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Abstract

A competitive sport, and a facility for playing the same, the facility having a raised planar playing field formed of a plurality of rectangular trampoline-like channels held together edgewise by supporting cables with all of the adjacent edges and cables being covered by padding. The rectangular planar field is preferably circumscribed by additional similar panels angled upwardly and outwardly from the edges of the planar field with goals being provided in each of the end angled panels. The playing field may be divided and marked in predetermined ways depending upon the rules of the game. In one form, the game may involve two teams; one provided for each half of the field, with each team taking turns for prescribed periods in attempting to project a ball into a goal at the angled panels projecting upwardly from the end of the opponents' side of the field, while the defendant's attempt to thwart the defensive team's attempts to make a goal. The total number of goals scored by each team are totaled after the expiration of allowed play periods to determine the winning team.

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Dependent claims

A supported surface for transitional movement, said surface being formed of:

a. a grid of elongated steel cables disposed above a ground level, said grid being formed of a plurality of first parallel cables spaced from each other, and a plurality of second steel cables disposed transversely of and in abutment with the first cables, said second steel cables being parallel to, and spaced from, each other, said first and second cables defining a plurality of open spaces between the cables;
b. means to support each of said cables at their respective extremities;
c. a plurality of first panels, each of said first panels being formed of a yieldable heavy fabric having edges and each panel being configured to space its edges from either a first or second cable defining a space;
d. a plurality of resilient elements extending outwardly from each edge of each panel for attachment to the nearest of said first and second cables, thereby to support the panel on said first or second cables within a space defined by said cables;
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e. a plurality of elongated cover means, the last said means each comprising a padded sheet material having a width greater than the distance between parallel edges of adjacently disposed panels, each said cover means being disposed over at least a portion of one of the first and second cables and the resilient means attached thereto and extending from the edge of a first panel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.