Backboard basketball-retriever
First Claim
1. A basketball backboard ball-return device comprising in combination:
- a basketball-return net;
a frame means for suspending said net, said frame means having upper and lower ends and including downwardly-extending laterally spaced-apart elongated supports, said net being mounted on and between each of said spaced-apart elongated supports;
pivot means for pivotably attaching said upper end of said frame means to a lower portion of a basketball backboard, said pivot means being attachable to said upper end of said frame means such that when the frame means is attached to said lower portion, said lower end of said frame means is pivotable forwardly outwardly from beneath the basketball backboard on which the upper end is mounted; and
retention means for intermittently anchoring said lower end forwardly of said basketball backboard such that when anchored forwardly a basketball bouncing off of said backboard is downwardly and forwardly guidable by said net to said lower end.
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Abstract
In a preferred embodiment, a net-carrying frame pivotally detachably hooked onto a lower portion of a basketball backboard at an upper end of the frame and net, with the lower end of the frame and net being anchored or supported at a lower height forwardly of the backboard in the extended state and positioned to return a basketball bouncing off of the backboard or through the hoop, the frame being supported at its lower end by foldable legs that support the lower end of the net and frame a distance above and spaced from the ground or floor, below the lower level of the backboard. The legs are foldable such that the remaining upper portion of the frame will pivotally swing-back to a storage position directly below the basketball backboard.
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Citations
25 Claims
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1. A basketball backboard ball-return device comprising in combination:
- a basketball-return net;
a frame means for suspending said net, said frame means having upper and lower ends and including downwardly-extending laterally spaced-apart elongated supports, said net being mounted on and between each of said spaced-apart elongated supports;
pivot means for pivotably attaching said upper end of said frame means to a lower portion of a basketball backboard, said pivot means being attachable to said upper end of said frame means such that when the frame means is attached to said lower portion, said lower end of said frame means is pivotable forwardly outwardly from beneath the basketball backboard on which the upper end is mounted; and
retention means for intermittently anchoring said lower end forwardly of said basketball backboard such that when anchored forwardly a basketball bouncing off of said backboard is downwardly and forwardly guidable by said net to said lower end. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
- a basketball-return net;
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20. A basketball backboard ball-return device comprising in combination:
- a basketball-return net;
a frame means for suspending said net, said frame means having upper and lower ends and including downwardly-extending laterally spaced-apart elongated supports, said net being mounted on and between each of said spaced-apart elongated supports, said elongated supports extending a predetermined length adapted to be greater than a downward-distance from a lower portion of said basketball backboard to ground or floor level;
retention means for intermittently anchoring said lower end forwardly of said basketball backboard such that when anchored forwardly a basketball bouncing off of said backboard is downwardly and forwardly guidable by said net to said lower end; and
extension means mounted on said elongated supports such that when suspended directly downwardly below the lower portion of the basketball backboard the elongated supports are adjustable to extend downwardly a distance no greater than said downward-distance, whereby said frame means and said net are storable in a directly downwardly-positioned rearwardly-retracted state beneath said lower portion. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
- a basketball-return net;
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24. A basketball backboard ball-return device comprising in combination:
- a basketball-return net having proximal and distal ends;
a frame means for suspending said net, said frame means having upper and lower ends and including downwardly-extending support structure, said net being mounted on said frame means such that a basketball bouncing off of a backboard is downwardly and forwardly guidable by said net to said lower end;
basketball-backboard net-support means for detachably mounting onto a basketball backboard and for supporting thereon said upper end such that said frame means is downwardly suspendable from a basketball backboard and is intermittently detachable therefrom, and for downwardly suspending said upper end therefrom, said basketball-backboard net support means including a member extendable from a rearward face of a basketball-backboard and a horizontal crossbar at said upper end of said frame means positioned at and supporting said proximal end of said net, said crossbar being adapted for resting on said member with the remainder of said frame means and said net suspending downwardly therefrom.
- a basketball-return net having proximal and distal ends;
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25. A basketball backboard ball-return device comprising in combination:
- a basketball-return net having proximal and distal ends;
a frame means for suspending said net, said frame means having upper and lower ends and including downwardly-extending support structure, said net being mounted on said said frame means such that a basketball bouncing off of a backboard is downwardly and forwardly guidable by said net to said lower end;
basketball-backboard net-support means for detachably mounting onto a basketball backboard and for supporting thereon said upper end such that said frame means is downwardly suspendable from a basketball backboard and is intermittently detachable therefrom, and for downwardly suspending said upper end therefrom, said basketball-backboard net support means including a horizontal crossbar at said upper end of said frame means positioned at and supporting said proximal end of said net, and mounting means for suspending said horizontal crossbar on said basketball backboard, said mounting means including at-least one hook attached to said crossbar shaped and adapted to be mounted onto the upper edge of a basketball backboard such that said horizontal crossbar is supportable by said hook when said hook is mounted on a basketball backboard.
- a basketball-return net having proximal and distal ends;
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