Target game with rungs

• US 20050082761A1
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Published: 04/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James P. Lynch
• Original Assignee: James P. Lynch
• Inventors: Lynch, James P.
• Application Number:
  US10/881,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20050082761A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/343
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/005 Keeping track of the point of impact or entry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/00 Targets or goals for ball games golf cups A63B57/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/002 Games using balls, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/10 Games with thread-suspended or swingably-mounted bodies, e.g. balls, pointed bodies shaped as birds, animals, or the like, for aiming at and hitting targets games using a bat with a ball tethered thereto A63B67/20, pin games with tethered balls A63D7/00 ; Games using tethered bodies, e.g. balls, not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A game includes projectiles and at least one ladder-like target, with a plurality of rungs, each spaced from each other by a predetermined distance and with a plurality of side struts connected to the rungs with connectors. Projectiles include two relatively large ends fabricated from balls similar to golf balls, separated by a flaccid cord or rope. In the most preferred embodiment, the struts slide inside each other to telescope and form a compact package.

Claims

1. A recreational apparatus comprising

two bases each comprising a first and a second horizontally extending foot and a central connector, each base extending approximately parallel to the other for providing structural support upon a surface, each foot optionally containing at least one recess for holding at least one weight, and each central connector retaining two feet and connecting to the ladder;

a ladder extending vertically from the base, the ladder comprising first, second and third horizontal rungs, the first rung being closest to the base and the third rung being farthest from the base, each rung having a first and a second end, and the ladder further comprising first, second and third vertical struts apposed to first ends of the rungs, and fourth, fifth and sixth vertical struts apposed to second ends of the rungs;

a first coupler retaining the first and second struts to the first end of the first rung;

a second coupler retaining the second and third struts to a first end of the second rung;

a third coupler retaining the third strut to the first end of the third rung;

a fourth coupler retaining the fourth and fifth struts to the second end of the first rung;

a fifth coupler retaining the fifth and sixth struts to the second end of the second rung;

a sixth coupler retaining the sixth strut to the second end of the third rung;

the first, second, fourth and fifth couplers coupling either permanently or removably; and

a projectile having a flaccid spacer and larger terminators at either end of the flaccid spacer, whereby the projectile may be tossed to the ladder about which the projectile may wrap.

2. The game of claim 1 wherein the third and sixth struts slidably contact the second and fifth connectors and wherein the third and sixth struts are narrower than the second and third struts, whereby the third and sixth struts telescope into the second and fifth struts.

3. The game of claim 2 wherein the second and fifth struts are slidably connected to the first and fourth connectors and are narrower than the first and fourth struts, whereby the second and fifth struts telescope into the first and fourth struts.

4. The game of claim 1 wherein the second and fifth struts are slidably connected to the first and fourth connectors and are narrower than the first and fourth struts, whereby the second and fifth struts telescope into the first and fourth struts.

5. The game of claim 1 wherein the projectile comprises a spacer surrounded with a metal grommet at one end, wherein the spacer'"'"'s other end is threaded through both terminators such that the grommet prevents a first terminator from falling off the spacer'"'"'s grommet end and the spacer'"'"'s other end is threaded through a hole in a shank, the spacer and the end are threaded back into the second terminator and the shank is pressed therein.