Recreational basketball apparatus with multiple moving goals

• US 4,268,029 A
• Filed: 02/11/1980
• Issued: 05/19/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Andrew P. Collins
• Original Assignee: Andrew P. Collins
• Inventors: Collins, Andrew P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kramer, Arnold W.
• Application Number:
  US06/120,724
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 272/3, 273/1.5 R, 273/1.5 A, 273/29 A, 273/317, 273/359, 273/368, 273/176 B, 273/354
• US Class Current: 273/359
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/093 Height
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/06 Revolving targets ; Moving targets, e.g. moving or revolving on impact
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/083 for basketball
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 19/00 Design or layout of playing courts, rinks, bowling greens or areas for water-skiing; Covers therefor golf courses A63B69/3691; water roundabouts A63G3/00; construction of surfaces of foundations E01C; roofs E04B7/00; buildings or groups of buildings for sports E04H3/10; swimming or splash baths or pools E04H4/00; coverings for baths E04H4/06

Abstract

A facility intended for use on a commercial basis, both for recreational and amusement purposes, offers a plurality of basketball-like courts designed to be played in sequence and with each court having a different challenging situation at least one of which utilizes a vertical backboard having a pair of spaced apart parallel goals mounted on one side rotating about a horizontal axis perpendicular thereto and passing through a backboard between the goals.

Claims

1. A commercial basketball recreational facility comprising:

(a) an array of basketball courts grouped in spaced-apart sets on a common land area, each set of courts having a plural number of courts and each court having a goal-backboard support means and appropriate fencing shared with adjacent courts on either side thereof; and

(b) a set of elevated unique goal-backboard structures for the array of courts with one such unique structure being supported in each court on each said support means at an elevation appropriate to the game of basketball and including among the set of said unique goal-backboard structures at least one such unique goal-backboard structure having a single vertical backboard mounting a pair of spaced parallel conventional basketball goals on the same outer playing side thereof and means to rotate said single backboard about a horizontal axis perpendicular thereto and passing through said single backboard between said spaced apart goals.