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Baseball diamond measuring device

  • US 20060010705A1
  • Filed: 07/19/2004
  • Published: 01/19/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A baseball diamond measuring device for laying out the distances between elements of different sizes of infields used in playing baseball and softball, the device comprising:

  • A measuring tool comprising a rigid flat casing shaped like home plate, a ground spike receiving ring attached to and protruding from a center point of a rear edge of an exterior of the casing, the ground spike receiving ring adapted to be grasped for pulling out the line and also for being spiked or pinned onto the ground here through to anchor the casing to a ground surface, an interior space within the casing housing a rotatable reel, a length of inelastic line wound around the reel, an opening through a front point of the casing communicating between the interior space and an exterior of the casing, the opening adapted to admit the line therethrough, and a rotatable handle on an exterior of the casing adapted for turning the reel to reel in the line for storage of the line in the casing, the line bearing unique visual markers along the length of the line, the markers spaced at intervals delineating specific distances between elements of an infield including home plate and a pitcher'"'"'s rubber and the bases of standard fields for playing baseball and softball at different levels of play including a variety of professional and nonprofessional levels of playing baseball and softball, the visual markers coded for the elements being measured and coded to differentiate between the different types of playing fields being measured, an outer ring attached to an outer end of the line, the outer ring adapted to be gripped by a user to withdraw a length of the line from the casing, the markers on the line adapted to be used to demark the length of line withdrawn for measuring distances between specific elements of any of a variety of different types of infields.

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