Luminous net for, inter alia, sports equipment, and sports equipment for ball games or the like comprising same
AssigneeCrazy Nets
InventorHerve Berard
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Abstract
A luminous net, for example for sports equipment made of flexible elongate elements (10) that are contiguous at specific points, wherein at least some (10) of the flexible elements are luminous, and each includes: an elongate sheath (100) which is transparent to light and made of a synthetic material; a series of luminous members (102) distributed in the elongate sheath (100) in at least one row; and a flexible reinforcing cord (101) which is arranged in the sheath (100) and which extends across the entire length thereof, and which is capable of imparting tensile strength to the flexible element (10), the length of the cord in the sheath being equal to the length of the sheath.
Claims20
Luminous net, comprising:
- plural elongate flexible elements (10) joined one to another,
- wherein each flexible element (10) comprises
- i) an elongate sheath (100) of synthetic material that is transparent to light, the sheath (100) comprising a plurality of straight sections connected at angular corner portions, the straight sections and corner portions together defining an overall length of the sheath, the straight sections and corner portions having an outermost exterior surface,
- ii) a series of luminous elements (102) distributed within the sheath (100), and
- iii) a flexible reinforcing cable (101) located within the sheath (100) and extending over the overall length of the sheath (100), the cable (101) imparting a tensile strength to the flexible element (10), an overall length of said cable being equal to the overall length of said sheath,
- wherein an exterior surface portion of each of a plurality of the corner portions of each sheath are joined to a corresponding exterior surface portion of each of a plurality of the corner portions of an adjacent one of the sheaths.
A luminous net for sporting equipment, comprising:
- plural elongate flexible elements (10) fastened one to another, each said flexible element (10) comprising
- i) a transparent elongate sheath (100),
- ii) a series of spaced-apart luminous elements (102) located within the sheath (100) and distributed along an overall length of the sheath (100), and
- iii) a flexible reinforcing cable (101) within the sheath (100), the cable (101) extending over the overall length of the sheath (100), the cable (101) imparting a tensile strength to the flexible element (10), the sheath (100) comprising a plurality of straight sections connected at angular corner portions that include a first corner portion at a first end of each sheath, a second corner portion at an opposite, second end of each sheath, and plural corner portions located between said first and second corner portions of each sheath;
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- attachment means that fasten i) the first corner portion, the second corner portion, and the plural corner portions located between said first and second corner portions of each sheath, to ii) the first corner portion, the second corner portion, and the plural corner portions located between said first and second corner portions of an adjacent one of the sheaths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.