No bounce no dunk recreation ball game

• US 5,615,890 A
• Filed: 05/16/1996
• Issued: 04/01/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John D. Blue
• Original Assignee: John D. Blue
• Inventors: Blue, John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US08/648,726
• Time in Patent Office: 320 Days
• Field of Search: 273/411, 273/1.5 R, 273/1.5 A, 273/400, 273/401, 273/402, 273/395, 273/396, 273/398
• US Class Current: 473/469
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 59/80 Circular bats or paddles not provided for in groups A63B59/20 - A63B59/70
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 61/00 Tennis nets or accessories for tennis or like games , e.g. volley-ball devices for holding or carrying balls A63B47/00; for table tennis A63B67/04
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/08 with substantially horizontal opening for ball, e.g. for basketball A63B57/40, A63B63/06 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/002 Games using balls, not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A competitive recreational game including: a foam game ball with symmetrical air holes therethrough; at least one paddle, racquet or mitt per player; a vertical net attached to a frame with support posts; a ball return to player net for each opposing player; at least one opposing basketball hoop with attached net to at least one common backboard on the forehand and backhand side; a central located basketball hoop attached to the top center portion of the vertical frame common to both players and a playing court with boundaries, scoring rules and regulations for all level of play based on at least 1 opposing player. Points are scored by subtracting from 15 down to zero in several strategic rewarding ways. The AIR BALL game is NO BOUNCE NO DUNKING and designed to be played on the beach, in the backyard or indoors on a floor surface. A one person practice board,with post and base, a hoop with net and a ball return to player net, designed to warm-up touch and accuracy, is also part or an extension of this recreation game.

Claims

1. A competitive no bounce no dunk recreational ball game assembly in which opposed players return a ball within a prescribed court extending along a horizontal playing surface in opposite longitudinal directions from an apparatus located on the playing surface between the players such that the court is divided into first and second opposed playing areas with the apparatus placed therebetween, the ball game assembly comprising in combination:

rules and regulations for scoring points to win said game;

at least one game ball;

at least one ball striking instrument;

and an apparatus,said apparatus comprising;

a frame having a first angular supporting means for supporting a return to player net in an angular downward position, a second vertical supporting means connected to said angular supporting means for supporting another net in a vertical position above said. angular net wherein the angular and virtical nets form 135 degree downward angles on either side of said vertical net, a plurality of supporting stands, each stand connected to and extending downwardly form an opposite lateral edge of said angular supporting means for supporting said apparatus on a playing surface, a plurality of third supporting means extending downwardly to the playing surface and connected to said vertical supporting means, each third supporting means supporting a common to both opposed players basketball backboard, with at least one hoop and net assembly, said hoop and net dimensioned for said ball, driven by said striking instrument to pass therethrough, each basketball assembly positioned on opposite ends of said virtical net at right angles and above said horizontal net, said game ball being deflectable off said backboards into either opposed playing areas, said vertical frame acts as a fourth supporting means for a common to opposed sides hoop and net assembly positioned in and connected to the center of the top portion of said vertical supporting means.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein said game ball is made of polyurethane foam having open cells said ball being printable thereon.

3. The invention of claim 2 wherein said game ball comprises a plurality of holes formed therethrough wherein the amount of foam material removed to form said holes ranges from 4% to 55% of the weight volume of said original foam material forming said game ball.

4. The invention of claim 3 wherein the holes of said game ball intersect in the center of said ball forming a central cavity in said ball thereby allowing air to pass throughout said ball when struck by the game ball striking instrument.

5. The invention of claim 1 wherein said rules and regulations for scoring points begins at 15 and for each point scored a point is subtracted from 15 so the first player to zero wins said game while everytime said game ball is served a point is scored.

6. The invention of claim 1 wherein said ball striking instrument is a foam mitt formed with an upper and lower layer of said foam which has been heat sealed and dye cut to shape said mitt said mitt being printable thereon.

7. The invention of claim 1 wherein said ball game has a no bounce and a no dunking rule as part of rules and regulations of said game.

8. The invention of claim 1 wherein each opposing player uses a ball striking instrument in or on their right and left hand to play said game, thereby using either hand related striking instrument, to strike said game ball.

9. The invention of claim 1 wherein there are a total of five said basketball hoop and net combination assemblies;

two said assemblies on one side of said virtical net;

two said assemblies on the opposite side of said virtical net; and

a single said assembly being centrally located and common to both opposing sides thereby said assemblies yield five different locations of scoring points in said ball game.