Soccer goal with sunshade

• US 20090029807A1
• Filed: 07/24/2007
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Sifrit
• Original Assignee: Robert Sifrit
• Inventors: Sifrit, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 7,686,712 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/478
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/004 Goals of the type used for football, handball, hockey or the like

Abstract

A temporary sunshade for a soccer goal which has a net and a goal frame for supporting the net in an outstretched configuration, the outstretched net having contiguous generally planar net surfaces including a horizontal top panel, upright end panels, and a sloping back panel. The sunshade preferably includes a removable flexible sunscreen connectable atop preferably all of the outstretched net as a sunshade for players during periods of soccer play inactivity. The sunscreen includes an airflow opening in a back panel thereof which permits moving air to flow there through for cooling players within the goal space of the soccer goal while remaining shaded. In one aspect, the opening may be an elongated slit formed along a substantial length of the back panel of said sunscreen. In another aspect, the opening may be a plurality of spaced U-shaped cuts through the back panel of the sunscreen each defining a flap movable by air movement thereagainst which produces an opening to permit air to flow there through.

Claims

1. An improved soccer goal comprising:

a net;

a goal frame for supporting said net in an outstretched configuration to define contiguous generally planar net surfaces including a horizontal top panel, upright end panels, and a sloping back panel;

a removable flexible sunscreen connectable atop said outstretched net as a sunshade for players during periods of soccer play inactivity.

2. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

said sunscreen includes airflow openings in a back panel thereof which permit moving air to flow there through for cooling players within said soccer goal while remaining shaded.

3. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

said opening is an elongated slit formed along a substantial length of said back panel of said sunscreen.

4. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 2, wherein:

said opening is formed of a plurality of spaced U-shaped cuts through the back panel of said sunscreen each defining a flap movable by air movement there against causing said flap to be displaced forming an opening to permit air to flow there through.

5. In a soccer goal including a net and a goal frame for supporting the net in an outstretched configuration to define contiguous generally planar net surfaces including a horizontal top panel, upright end panels, and a sloping back panel, the improvement comprising:

a removable flexible sunscreen releasably connectable atop the outstretched net as a sunshade for players during periods of soccer play inactivity.

6. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 5, wherein:

said sunscreen includes airflow openings in a back panel thereof which permit moving air to flow there through for cooling players within said soccer goal while remaining shaded.

7. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

said opening is an elongated slit formed along a substantial length of the back panel of said sunscreen.

8. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

said opening is formed of a plurality of spaced U-shaped cuts through the back panel of said sunscreen each defining a flap movable by air movement thereagainst causing each said flap to be displaced forming an opening to permit air to flow there through.

9. A temporary sun shade releasably attachable over a soccer goal which includes a net and a goal frame for supporting said net in an outstretched configuration having contiguous generally planar net surfaces including a horizontal top panel, upright end panels, and a sloping back panel which collectively define a goal space, said temporary sun shade comprising:

a removable flexible sunscreen connectable atop at least the top and back panels of the outstretched net forming a sunshade for players within said goal space during periods of soccer play inactivity, said sunscreen includes airflow openings in a back panel thereof which permit moving air to flow there through for cooling players within said soccer goal space while remaining shaded.

10. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 9, wherein:

said opening is an elongated slit formed along a substantial length of the back panel of said sunscreen.

11. An improved soccer goal as set forth in claim 9, wherein:

said opening is formed of a plurality of spaced U-shaped cuts through the back panel of said sunscreen each defining a flap movable by air movement thereagainst causing each said flap to be displaced forming an opening to permit air to flow there through.