Pass-football
First Claim
1. A pass-catch football toy comprising in combination:
- a football having two ends and shaped as an oblate spheroid, said football having a core portion, a fleece covering the core, and a plurality of longitudinal seams extending between said ends;
said fleece comprising contact material having a plurality of loop-shaped snags over the outer surface of said fleece;
a plurality of grip-tabs comprising contact material and being adhered to said fleece longitudinally on each of said plurality of longitudinal seams, each of said plurality of grip-tabs having a plurality of loop-shaped snags;
a flexible catching glove dimensioned to receive and tightly fit a player'"'"'s hand, the catching glove having front and back surfaces with strips of hook material adhered on said front surface of the fingers and thumb of the glove, said hook material having a plurality of hooks adapted for securing to the loop-shaped snags of the fleece and grip-tabs upon contact with said football.
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Abstract
A foam rubber (Ensolite™) football produced through the standard injection mold process is covered with VELCRO Fleece material and with thin strips of VELCRO fleece material on each of the football'"'"'s four seams (for ease of gripping and throwing) and used in conjunction with a cotton glove with an elastic wrist band and rubber coated ("dot coating") palm surface with thin strips of VELCRO hook material secured on the palm side of the thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger. The foam rubber football is covered through a process whereby the VELCRO fleece material is cut with a die into the pattern of a football and secured to the foam rubber football with rubber or silicone-based contact cement; the additional strips of VELCRO fleece material are placed on the football seams and secured with contact cement. Five 1/2 inch strips of VELCRO hook material cut to various lengths are attached to the palm side of each finger/thumb of a cotton glove with a rubber-coated palm with contact cement.
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7 Claims
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1. A pass-catch football toy comprising in combination:
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a football having two ends and shaped as an oblate spheroid, said football having a core portion, a fleece covering the core, and a plurality of longitudinal seams extending between said ends; said fleece comprising contact material having a plurality of loop-shaped snags over the outer surface of said fleece; a plurality of grip-tabs comprising contact material and being adhered to said fleece longitudinally on each of said plurality of longitudinal seams, each of said plurality of grip-tabs having a plurality of loop-shaped snags; a flexible catching glove dimensioned to receive and tightly fit a player'"'"'s hand, the catching glove having front and back surfaces with strips of hook material adhered on said front surface of the fingers and thumb of the glove, said hook material having a plurality of hooks adapted for securing to the loop-shaped snags of the fleece and grip-tabs upon contact with said football. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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