Games practice net and protectve screen

• US 4,045,032 A
• Filed: 04/29/1975
• Issued: 08/30/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Macleisure Limited
• Original Assignee: Macleisure Limited
• Inventors: Cox, John William Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US05/572,851
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: 273/181, 273/182, 273/176 F, 273/176 FA, 273/176 FB, 273/127 B, 135/1 R, 135/5 B
• US Class Current: 473/197
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/022 Backstops, cages, enclosures or the like, e.g. for spectator protection, for arresting balls

Abstract

A practice net and protective screen incorporates a sheet of flexible material which has a quadrilateral center portion and two triangular wing portions, the bases of which are common with respective opposite parallel sides of the quadrilateral center portion. A ring is located on each of the six corners of the sheet. Cords join the rings at the ends of the bases of each triangular wing portions. Cords may join all adjacent pairs of rings around the periphery of the sheet. The rings may be formed by loops of cord.

Claims

1. A games practice net and protective screen incorporating a sheet of flexible material capable of being laid flat, the shape of the sheet when laid flat being that of a hexagon comprising a quadrilateral center portion and two triangular wing portions, all of the angles of said triangular wing portions being acute angles and said triangular wing portions being so orientated that the bases of the triangular wing portions are common with respective opposite parallel sides of the quadrilateral center portion so that the sheet has six sides and six salient corners, a ring located at each of the six corners, and a pair of cords connected to and linking the rings which are located at the corners defined by the ends of the bases of the triangular wing portions.

2. A games practice net as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a pair of support poles which, in use, extend through the rings located in the upper corners of the quadrilateral portion so as to support said sheet.

3. A games practice net and protective screen as claimed in claim 7 in which further cords are connected to and link all adjacent pairs of rings around the periphery of the sheet.

4. A games practice net and protective screen as claimed in claim 7 in which the rings are formed by loops of cord.