Game footbag

• US 4,151,994 A
• Filed: 03/23/1977
• Issued: 05/01/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kransco Manufacturing Inc.
• Original Assignee: Robert J. Stalberger Jr
• Inventors: Stalberger, Robert J. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US05/780,449
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 273/58 F, 273/58 H, 273/58 A, 273/60 A, 273/65 EC, 273/106 R
• US Class Current: 473/594
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2037/082 Granular, e.g. comprising beads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/02 Special cores balls with finger holes A63B37/0001, golf ball cores A63B37/005
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 273/04 Ethylene
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 273/08 Urethane

Abstract

A game footbag designed to be kicked repeatedly into the air discloses a durable, flexible cover having a generally spherical shape when fully expanded and partially filled with material having substantially fluid characteristics. The cover consists of two dogbone-shaped pieces of flexible material attached together at their peripheries so as to form a collapsible ball. The fluid material includes a large plurality of small polythylene particles having low resilience. The interaction of the cover with the fluid-like material results in a footbag having a slow-action and uniform response to kicking.

Claims

1. A game footbag comprising

a pair of web-like, matching, generally figure-eight-shaped cover portions each formed of an abrasion-resistent, unitary, leather-like pliable material,

securing means defining a continuous seam stitching together the peripheries of said cover portions, with margins thereof drawn together and disposed in face-to-face abutting relationship along and projecting toward one side of said seam, said joined cover portions forming a pliantly changeable-configuration, generally spherical chamber having a diameter no greater than three inches with said projecting margins extending into said chamber, and

fluid, particulate, pellets of polyethylene filler material disposed within said chamber.

2. The footbag of claim 1, on the outside of which said seam defines a pliantly deformable joint establishing subtantially exact curvilinear flushness between contiguous outside expanses of said cover portions.

3. The footbag of claim 1, wherein said securing means comprises an elongated filament-like element stitched to said peripheries.

4. The footbag of claim 1, wherein said filler material is substantially non-resilient.

5. The footbag of claim 4, wherein the particles of said filler material have non-angular, curvilinear outside surfaces.