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US 7,070,521 B2Granted
Football training device
OwnerRonald L. Baydukeinventor
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Abstract
A device which is utilized during practice or other informal situation to teach a football player such as a quarterback or kicker to deliver a football around or over one or preferably a group of linemen. In one embodiment, the device includes a mechanism capable of moving at least one figure, simulative of a human athlete, from an inactive position to an active position which is adapted to mimic predetermined characteristics of a defensive line.
Claims28
A football training device, comprising:
- a base of the football training device adapted to contact a ground surface, said base having one or more support members;
- wherein at least one figure connection member is connected to the one or more support members, wherein a figure extension is connected to one of the at least one figure connection member, and at least one figure adapted to simulate a human, wherein the figure extension has from 2 to about 20 apertures located at different vertical heights with each at least one figure operatively connected to one of said at least one figure connection member, and wherein the at least one figure has a main body extending in a substantially upright position, wherein the main body includes a collar that is connected to one of the apertures of the figure extension adapted to allow the at least one figure to be either fixed in relation to the base or to rotate in a direction around an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the figure extension, and wherein the at least one figure is height adjustable in relation to the base utilizing the apertures.
A football training device, comprising:
- a base having at least one support member connected thereto;
- a rotatable member movably connected to said support member and rotatable about a substantially horizontal axis of rotation;
- at least one figure adapted to simulate a human connected to a figure extention that is connected to figure connection member of the rotatable member, wherein the at least one figure is moveable around the axis of rotation, wherein the figure has main body that includes a collar that is connected to an aperture of the figure extension that allows the main body to be height adjustable on the figure extension in relation to the figure connection member;
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- an activating mechanism connected to and capable of manipulating the rotatable member and moving the at least one figure from a substantially horizontal position to at least a substantially vertical position, wherein each of the at least one figure connected to the rotatable member rotates around the horizontal axis of rotation when the activating mechanism manipulates the rotatable member.
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A football training device, comprising:
- a base adapted to contact a ground surface, one or more support members connected to the base, wherein the one or more support members include two substantially vertical sections and a substantially horizontal cross section connected between the vertical sections, and wherein the cross section includes a figure connection section, wherein a figure extension is connected to the figure connection section, and a figure is operatively connected to the figure extension, and wherein the figure has a main body extending in a substantially upright position, wherein the main body includes a collar that is connected to an aperture of the figure extention adapted to allow the figure to be either fixed in relation to the base or to rotate in a direction around an axis parallel to a longitudibal axis of the figure extension, and wherein the figure extension is a tube that includes 2 to about 20 apertures that allow the figure to be connected to the figure extension at a plurality of different vertical heights.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.