Throwable-catchable tackling bag

• US 3,111,317 A
• Filed: 10/27/1961
• Issued: 11/19/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John J. Cituk
• Original Assignee: John J. Cituk
• Inventors: Cituk, John J.
• Application Number:
  US04/148,069
• Time in Patent Office: 753 Days
• US Class Current: 473/444
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 65/06 Heavy throwing-balls , i.e. "medicine balls", shots, weights or stones for putting
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/34 Tackling, blocking or grappling dummies, e.g. boxing or wrestling or American- football dummies

Claims

1. A PORTABLE SCAFFOLDLESS FOOTBALL TACKLING BAG COMPRISING A SYMMETRICAL SHAPED BODY MEMBER OF CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION HAVING A CENTRAL PORTION OF LESS DIAMETER THAN THE ENDS OF THE BAG AND GRADUALLY TAPERED FROM SAID CENTRAL PORTION IN THE DIRECTION OF THE BAG ENDS, A CLOSURE MEMBER AT EACH END OF THE BAG, ONE OF THE CLOSURES HAVING AN OPENING FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF FILLING MATERIALS, MEANS CENTRALLY POSITIONED WITHIN THE BAG CONCENTRIC WITH THE LONGITUDINALLY AXIS THEREOF FOR REINFORCING THE BAG AGAINST BENDING WITH RESPECT TO ITS AXES OF SYMMETRY UPON IMPACT, SAID REINFORCING MEANS BEING SPACED FROM THE ENDS OF THE BAG, AN OPENING FORMED IN THE REINFORCING MEANS, AND A SELECTED VOLUME OF A RELATIVELY HEAVY MATERIAL POSITIONED WITHIN THE OPENING, WHEREBY THE WEIGHT OF THE BAG MAY BE VARIED.