TETHERED BALL AND RESILIENT COVERING FOR BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT HANDS

• US 3,843,126 A
• Filed: 11/05/1973
• Issued: 10/22/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leon D. Bandy
• Original Assignee: Leon D. Bandy
• Inventors: Bandy, Leon D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Siskind, Marvin
• Application Number:
  US05/412,683
• Time in Patent Office: 351 Days
• Field of Search: 2/19,161A,16 273/95A,26D,26E,26C,166,67B,54B
• US Class Current: 473/576
• 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

An exercise and recreational apparatus in the form of a ball and partial glove combination wherein the ball connected by an elastic band to the palm of the glove when thrown may be caught when it returns or is permitted to bypass the user one or more times before being caught. The elastic band has two openings at diagonally positioned points for thumb holes, one of which is used by a right handed player and the other by a left handed player.

Claims

1. An exercise and recreational device comprising in combination:

a glove formed of resilient material for covering only the palm and back of a hand, said glove comprises an elongated, open-ended, cylindrically shaped, resilient member having two openings at diagonally positioned points for thumb holes, one of which is used with a right-handed user and the other of which is used with a left handed user, a rubber band attached at one end to the palm of the glove, and a rubber ball attached to the other end of the rubber band, whereby the user may grasp freely with his gloved hand the ball and throw it for movement away from him in or out of his line of sight with freedom of the fingers of the gloved hand to catch the tethered ball at will.

2. The exercise and recreational device set forth in claim 1 wherein:

said glove is formed of rubber.