Ambidextrous pitching screen

• US 20090098956A1
• Filed: 12/05/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Morrow Sports, LLC
• Original Assignee: Morrow Sports, LLC
• Inventors: Morrow, William David
• Application Number:
  US12/315,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20090098956A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/451
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2063/001 Targets or goals with ball-returning means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2069/0006 for pitching
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0002 for baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0097 Ball rebound walls with holes or in combination with nets A63B63/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49947 by applying separate fastener

Abstract

A pitching screen which provides a first pitching lane and a second pitching lane in a single pitching screen configuration to allow both left-handed pitchers and right-handed pitchers to pitch without repositioning the pitching screen.

Claims

1-35. -35. (canceled)

36. A pitching screen, comprising:

a) a base configured to engage a support surface;

a) a planar support structure including a first support element and a second support element spaced a distance apart each having a lower portion coupled to said base to fix orientation of said planar support structure in relation to said support surface, wherein said first support element has an upper portion configured to provide a first cutout on the right side of said pitching screen, wherein said second support element has an upper portion configured to provide a second cutout on the left side of said pitching screen said first cutout defining the configuration of a first pitching lane said second cutout defining the configuration of a second pitching lane;

b) an object deflection material coupled to said substantially planar support structure to provide a substantially planar object deflection surface.

37. The pitching screen as described in claim 36, wherein said upper portion of said first support element has a configuration which defines a first square cutout.

38. The pitching screen as described in claim 36, wherein said upper portion of said second support element has a configuration which defines a second square cutout.

39. The pitching screen as described in claim 36, wherein said first support element and said second support element comprise a first linear elongate upright and a second linear upright spaced a distance apart said first square cutout and said second square cutout correspondingly coupled to the upper portion of said first upright and said second upright.

40. The pitching screen as described in claim 36, where in said first support element and said second support element comprise a first arcuate support element and a second arcuate support element spaced a distance apart inwardly arching each of said arcuate supports having an upwardly extending linear portion which correspondingly defines a first partial arcuate cutout and a second partial arcuate cutout.

41. The pitching screen as described in claim 36, further comprising a cross piece interconnected between the respective upper portions of said first support element and said second support element.