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Basketball safety return II

  • US 6,416,431 B1
  • Filed: 06/02/2000
  • Issued: 07/09/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A basketball safety apparatus to be used in conjunction with a basketball hoop and backboard mounted on a basketball goal post, comprising:

  • sections of netting, quadrilateral in shape, sloping downwardly, from a maximum height slightly above the basketball hoop at or near the basketball goal post to a lesser height away from the goal post, each section having strips of cloth sewn to the four edges thereof forming borders therearound, said netting having a maximum interstitial space between strands thereof narrow enough to stop a basketball;

    a plurality of movable pole support bases;

    a plurality of poles adapted to be mounted vertically in the movable pole support bases;

    a plurality of connectors for connecting the sections of netting to the vertically mounted poles; and

    the poles and bases being mounted and arranged such that the sections of netting form a barrier in two approximately orthogonal directions in which at least one section of netting forms a barrier across a driveway which connects to a street and other sections of netting form a backdrop behind the backboard of the basketball goal post.

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