Tool for layout of baseball diamonds (Du-Ber)

• US 4,160,324 A
• Filed: 12/19/1977
• Issued: 07/10/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Carita Weber
• Original Assignee: Cecil C. Dunn
• Inventors: Dunn, Cecil C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Application Number:
  US05/861,866
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 33/137 R, 33/138
• US Class Current: 33/759
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 19/06 Apparatus for setting-out or dividing courts
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/1003 characterised by structure or material; characterised by layout or indicia
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/1084 Tapes combined with arrangements for functions other than measuring lengths
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 5/0023 Measuring of sport goods, e.g. bowling accessories, golfclubs, game balls

Abstract

A tool for quickly and easily laying out all of the components of a baseball diamond, the tool consisting of an elongated tape, or equivalent flexible object, which has a row of openings along its length that are properly spaced apart and from its end, each opening being identified, and the tape being adaptable to be wound up upon a reel, for convenient carrying by a person; the tool being associated with an instruction booklet for proper use of the tool.

Claims

1. A tool for laying out of baseball diamonds, comprising, in combination, a measuring device of elongated shape, and which is made of a flexible material, such as tape or the like, a reel to which one end of said tape is attached, so that when not in use, said tape can then be wound up around said reel, an opposite end of said tape having a master ring defining a first hole along said tape, and said tape including a plurality of other openings along said tape, at specific calibrated distances from said master ring, for defining distances of components of said baseball diamonds;

said measuring device, additionally, including a whip pivotally attached to said tape, said whip comprising a second tape member, snap-fastened through one of said holes along the first said tape, said whip including a hole at one end thereof, a snap-fastener element secured at an opposite end thereof, a short length of a third tape member secured, at its one end, to an intermediate portion of said second tape member, while an opposite end of said third tape member has a mating snap-fastener element engagable with said snap-fastener element of said second tape member.

2. The combination as set forth in claim 1, wherein said calibrated distances between said holes are made either for regulated baseball, softball, or youth league fields.