Sports equipment storage device

• US 6,749,074 B1
• Filed: 10/15/2002
• Issued: 06/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Budd Brothers Co., Budd R. Brothers
• Original Assignee: Budd R. Brothers
• Inventors: Brothers, Budd, Hileman, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Stodola, Daniel P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, KHOA H
• Application Number:
  US10/271,036
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 211/85.7, 211/70.6, 211/60.1, 211/66, 211/13.1, 211/14, 211/94.01, 211/94.02
• US Class Current: 211/85.7
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 81/005 Devices for storing or displaying rifles, guns, pistols or elongated objects such as fishing rods storing fishing rods or the like in vehicles B60R7/08; storing guns in vehicles B60R7/14; cases for carrying guns F41C33/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/0028 with one compartment or recess for each article A47F7/0035 takes precedence

Abstract

A portable rack for arranging and storing baseball bats, balls, batting hats and related baseball equipment. The storage rack is supported on a wall surface with extensible and pivotal deployable equipment engaging extensions for receiving baseball equipment. Clip assemblies allow for selective attachment and removal from a wall-supporting surface.

Claims

1. A portable storage rack for baseball equipment comprises in combination,

an elongated extrusion having a plurality of registering channels within,

a bat retaining member registerable within one of said channels,

a ball holder registerable within one of said channels,

a pair of hanger support bars slidably secured within one of said channels,

a pair of hanger support arms pivotally secured to said extrusions,

said bat retaining member having a plurality of longitudinally spaced contoured notches within,

said ball holder having an elongated base with oppositely disposed upstanding elongated parallel upstanding flanges,

means for pivotally deploying said arms laterally from said bat holder, and means for selectively securing said storage rack to a supporting surface and means for preventing displacement of said bats laterally from within said bat retaining member.

2. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1, wherein said hanger support bars have a plurality of longitudinally spaced hooks secured thereto.

3. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said hanger support arms have multiple hooks extending there from.

4. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said hanger support arms are movable from a first position parallel with said extrusion, to a second position positioned at right angles thereto.

5. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said extrusion has a pair of oppositely disposed end caps secured thereto.

6. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 5 wherein said end caps extend beyond said extension defining retainer walls for said ball holder.

7. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said hanger support arms have a plurality of equipment hooks formed therein.

8. The storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein means for preventing displacement of said bats laterally comprises a contoured upstanding elongated lip on said bat holder between said respective notches.

9. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said bat retaining member extends laterally from said extrusion in spaced relation to said ball holder and said hanger support arms.

10. The portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said means for selectively securing said storage rack to a support wall comprises,

hooks extending from one of said ball support flanges.

11. A portable storage rack set forth in claim 1 wherein said horizontal support bars are a respective length equal to one-half that of said extrusion'"'"'s known length.