Basketball shooting target for game condition use

• US 5,390,912 A
• Filed: 08/18/1994
• Issued: 02/21/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silagy, Howard
• Original Assignee: Silagy, Howard
• Inventors: Silagy, Howard
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US08/292,250
• Time in Patent Office: 187 Days
• Field of Search: 273/1.5 A, 273/1.5 R, 273/402, 273/400
• US Class Current: 473/448
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/083 for basketball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0071 for basketball

Abstract

At least one target for sighting during execution of an intended non-backboard banked basketball shot in which the target, in the specific form of a brightly colored ball, is attached to a cord of the net supported in depending relation from the rim, in which location it does not prevent also a "dunk" shot, i.e. not a shot requiring a target but nevertheless commonly used in scoring, such that all varieties of shots are possible with the within target permitting its use under game conditions and with the pressure to the user attendant therewith.

Claims

1. An aiming device in attached relation to a basketball hoop of a type consisting of a circular rim and a cylindrically shaped net formed by an arrangement of plural interconnected yarns connected in depending relation about said rim in the use of which a basketball is typically caused to pass through said net by a manual thrust therethrough and by a thrown trajectory, said aiming device comprising at least one target in the form of a small-sized circular ball, and a selected site for the attachment of said target ball being on a yarn of said net below said rim to serve as a visual sighting target for said thrown trajectory and in a position of clearance from said manual thrust, whereby said aiming device contributes to proficiency in scoring by a thrown trajectory without impeding scoring by a manual thrust and is thereby advantageous for game conditioning use.