Color coded football yardage measuring sleeve

• US 6,012,228 A
• Filed: 12/04/1997
• Issued: 01/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gregory M. Fisanich
• Original Assignee: Gregory M. Fisanich
• Inventors: Fisanich, Gregory M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, G. Bradley
• Application Number:
  US08/985,411
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 33/289, 33/493, 33/494, 33/700, 33/755, 33/756, 33/759, 33/760, 33/771, 33/679.1, 33/1 G, 59/78, 59/80, 59/93, 116/222, 473/438, 473/470, 473/490
• US Class Current: 33/289
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0672 using non-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/11 Chains for measuring length

Abstract

A new color coded football yardage measuring sleeve for showing an exact distance a football team must move to achieve a first down when measuring chains are brought onto a football field. The inventive device includes a cylindrical sleeve portion having opposed open ends for receiving an existing yardage chain therein. The sleeve portion has a length of ten yards. The cylindrical sleeve portion is divided into one yard increments of alternating colors.

Claims

1. A color coded football yardage measuring sleeve for showing an exact distance a football team must move to achieve a first down when measuring chains are brought onto a football field, the measuring sleeve comprising:

a cylindrical sleeve portion having opposed open ends such that the sleeve is adapted for covering a football yardage chain, the sleeve portion having a full length of ten yards, the cylindrical sleeve portion having an interior portion having a length of 8 yards having yard indicia being divided into one yard increments of alternating first and second colors, said sleeve portion having two opposite outer portions each having a length of one yard, each outer portion having a distal twelve inch segment divided into one inch increments having alternating inch indicia of said first and second colors, each outer portion further having an inner portion having a length of two feet divided into one foot increments having alternating foot indicia of said first and second colors, the inner portion being disposed inwardly of the outer twelve inch segment.

2. A color coded football yardage measuring sleeve for showing an exact distance a football team must move to achieve a first down when measuring chains are brought onto a football field, the measuring sleeve comprising:

a cylindrical sleeve having opposed open ends such that said sleeve is adapted for covering an existing yardage chain, the sleeve having a full length of ten yards, the sleeve being divided into an interior portion and two opposite outer portions, the interior portion having a length of 8 yards divided into one yard increments of alternating first and second colors, the outer portions each having a length of one yard divided into one foot increments, an innermost pair of said one foot increments being indicated by alternating of said first and second colors along each said innermost pair of said one foot increments.

3. The color coded football yardage measuring sleeve as set forth in claim 2 wherein each outer portion includes a distal twelve inch segment divided into one inch increments, said one inch increments being indicated bv alternating of said first and second colors along each said distal twelve inch segment.