BASKETBALL REBOUNDER NET

• US 20160199718A1
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pro Performance Sports LLC (Denergy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pro Performance Sports LLC (Denergy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Holland, Allen Keith, Huth, Richard Raymond III
• Application Number:
  US14/596,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20160199718A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2063/001 Targets or goals with ball-returning means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/09 Adjustable dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0071 for basketball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0097 Ball rebound walls with holes or in combination with nets A63B63/00

Abstract

A rebounder may include a frame having tubes in the shape of an isosoles trapezoid with rounded corners. A net is attached to the frame. A rear support may be pivotally attached to a top of the frame, and support bars attachable to sides of the frame and pivotally attached to the rear support. The rear support is movable from a folded position where the rear support is near parallel to, and/or with a floor tube of the rear support in contact with the frame. The rear support is also movable to an unfolded position where the rear support holds the frame and net at an acute angle to the floor or ground.

Claims

1. A rebounder comprising:

a framework including a frame and a base, with the frame having first, second, third and fourth sides, with the first side longer than and parallel to the third side, and with the second side not parallel to the fourth side, and with the second and fourth sides having the same length;

the base including a rear support pivotally attached to the first side of the frame, and left and right support bars pivotally attached to the second and fourth sides of the frame, respectively, and to the rear support; and

a net attached to and surrounded by the frame.

2. The rebounder of claim 1 wherein the first side of the frame has a length 1.5 to 6 times greater than the length of the third side of the frame.

3. The rebounder of claim 1 wherein the base is movable from a folded position where the support bar is substantially parallel to the frame, to an unfolded position where the support bar forms an angle of 30 to 60 degrees with the frame.

4. The rebounder of claim 3 wherein the rear support is substantially parallel to the frame when the base is in the folded position.

5. The rebounder of claim 1 wherein the net comprises an elastic mesh material, and with the net comprising an isosoles trapezoid having flat corners.

6. The rebounder of claim 5 with the net attached to the frame via a plurality of ties, and with a tie located at each end of each flat corner.

7. The rebounder of claim 1 with the net attached to first, second, third and fourth sides of the frame via elastic ties, and with the net flat and parallel to the frame.

8. The rebounder of claim 1 further including a front floor pad on the third side of the frame, and at least two rear floor pads on the rear support, and with each of the floor pads comprising a resilient material.

9. The rebounder of claim 8 with one or more of the floor pads having a tube clamp on a flat plate.

10. The rebounder of claim 1 with the frame and the base comprising hollow tubes.

11. The rebounder of claim 1 with the second side of the frame forming an angle with the third side of the frame of 30 to 60 degrees.

12. The rebounder of claim 1 further including a tube clamp on the second side of the frame adapted to attach to a frame of a second adjacent rebounder.

13. A net assembly, comprising:

a frame comprising one or more tubes in the shape of an isosoles trapezoid with rounded corners;

a rear support pivotally attached to a top of the frame, and a pair of support bars each having a first end pivotally attached to the rear support, and a second end attached to a tube clamp;

wherein the rear support is movable from a folded position where the rear support forms an angle of less than 10 degrees with the frame, to an unfolded position where the rear support forms an angle of 45 to 120 degrees with the frame; and

a net attached to and surrounded by the frame.

14. The net assembly of claim 13 further including two or more floor pads attached to the frame.