TETHERED BALL GAME DEVICE AND SURFACE CONNECTOR

• US 3,656,747 A
• Filed: 04/08/1970
• Issued: 04/18/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Don H. Revell Jr, Hans W. Copony
• Original Assignee: Don H. Revell Jr, Hans W. Copony
• Inventors: Revell, Don H. Jr., Copony, Hans W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Siskind, Marvin
• Application Number:
  US05/026,711
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• Field of Search: 269/249,261,283 248/40,42,38,43,41 273/97,98,99,100,95A
• US Class Current: 273/331
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/10 Games with thread-suspended or swingably-mounted bodies, e.g. balls, pointed bodies shaped as birds, animals, or the like, for aiming at and hitting targets games using a bat with a ball tethered thereto A63B67/20, pin games with tethered balls A63D7/00 ; Games using tethered bodies, e.g. balls, not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A tethered projectile, usually a ball, is tossed by hand in a manner to score when properly landed and retained on a captivetype target, a seating ring for example. An upright is provided at its lower end with an adapter bracket capable of being clamped on a stationary support member and has an arm suspending a projectile-tethering-string. The upright comprises separably connectable dowel-like sections. The arm and also the target means are detachably connected to an upper one of the aforementioned sections. The game device is of such construction that it may be located on a vertical support surface as well as on a horizontal support surface, and can also be screwed into place. The upright is vertically adjustable. The lower end is detachably connectable with a block which serves as an adapter bracket which allows the above-mentioned support by either a vertical or horizontal surface.

Claims

1. A game device comprising an upright embodying a vertically elongated upper dowel-like section having an axial bore extending therethrough and opening through the respective upper and lower ends thereof, a first rod having its longitudinal axis disposed at right angles to the longitudinal axis of said dowel-like section, said rod providing an arm having inward and outward ends, said outward end provided with an eye, the inward end having a depending lateral bent portion constituting a detent, the upper end of said dowel-like section having a radial slot opening through the said upper end and also through one peripheral side adjacent said upper end, an inner end portion of said rod passing outwardly through and being seated and removably keyed in said slot, the lower end of said dowel-like section being likewise provided with a radial slot opening through said lower open end and said one side and communicating with said bore, a second rod shorter than said first rod, also disposed at right angles to the longitudinal axis of said dowel-like section and having an inner end bent laterally upward and plugged and fitted into an end portion of the bore and having an adjacent portion passing through and keyed in the coacting slot and also having an outer terminal end formed with a coplanar ring constituting a target-like ball-receiving and retaining hoop, said dowel-like section being such that it can be positioned against and secured to a relatively stationary support surface, a manually actuatable projectile designed and adapted to be caught and temporarily retained for point-scoring when seated atop said target-like hoop, a flexible tether having an upper end connected to said eye and a lower free end connected to said projectile, and a relatively short dowel-like connector section having reduced axial stud-like extensions at upper and lower ends thereof, the extension at the upper end fitting telescopingly into a lower end portion of said bore and serving to assist in holding said second named rod in a given position.

2. The game device defined in and according to claim 1 and a lower dowel-like section axially aligned with the aforementioned dowel-like sections and having an upper end abutting a lower end of said second dowel-like section and having an upper oriented end provided with an axial socket for reception and retention of the coacting reduced stud-like extension.

3. The game device defined in and according to claim 2 and, in combination, an adapter comprising a block, said block being adapted to be detachably connected with and usably mounted on either a horizontal or vertical support member, as the case may be, said block having adjacent right angularly related corner portions provided with selectively usable blind sockets, said sockets being disposed at right angles to each other, an adjacent end portion of said third named dowel-like section being capable of being telescopingly and removably fitted in a selected one of said sockets.