Apparatus for playing a lawn game

• US 7,677,575 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2007
• Issued: 03/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jerome Eisenbarth
• Original Assignee: Jerome Eisenbarth
• Inventors: Eisenbarth, Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiu; Raleigh W.
• Application Number:
  US11/724,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20080224408A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,097 Days
• Field of Search: 273/343, 273/317, 273/348, 482/15, 482/16, 211/202
• US Class Current: 273/343
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2067/063 tossing, e.g. rings or horseshoes around or on, e.g. posts, hooks
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/007 Arrangements on balls for connecting lines or cords
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/00 Targets or goals for ball games golf cups A63B57/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 67/06 Ring or disc tossing games , e.g. quoits; Throwing or tossing games, e.g. using balls; Games for manually rolling balls, e.g. marbles

Abstract

Golf Gladiator is a lawn game of skill involving balls or other objects connected by a string or rope and a ladder design that has rungs at various distances from the players due to its unique angled design. To play, the ladder assembly is placed a predetermined distance from the players. A player grabs one ball and rope assembly and swings its at the ladder rungs, attempting to get it to wrap around a rung. Each rung has a point value assigned to it. There are three ball and rope assemblies per person or team. Each player or team throws all of his or its ball and rope assemblies and then the next player or team takes his or its turn. A variety of variations on these rules are possible.

Claims

1. A sporting device comprising:

a support that attaches on top to a first rung;

a first support member connected at an angle to the first rung on one end and to a second rung on the other end; and

a second support member connected at an angle to the second rung on one end and a third rung on the other end;

wherein said support connects to a base on bottom; and

wherein said base is rectangular and has a first shorter pipe in the front and a second shorter pipe in the back and a first longer pipe on one side and second longer pipe on the other side.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the support is a first upside down V-shaped piping that connects to the first longer pipe and a second upside down V-shaped piping that connects to the second longer pipe.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein the first rung connects the top of the first upside down V-shaped piping and the second upside down V-shaped piping.

4. A sporting device comprising:

a support that attaches on top to a first rung;

a first support member connected at an angle to the first rung on one end and to a second rung on the other end;

a second support member connected at an angle to the second rung on one end and a third rung on the other end; and

a rope attached to a first ball on one end and a second ball on the opposite end.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein the rope is nylon.

6. The device of claim 4 wherein the rope is one quarter of an inch in diameter.

7. A sporting device comprising:

a base that is rectangular and has a first shorter pipe in the front and a second shorter pipe in the back and a first longer pipe on one side and a second longer pipe on the other side;

an anchor support made of a first upside down V-shaped piping that connects to the first longer pipe and a second upside down V-shaped piping that connects to the second longer pipe;

a first rung that connects the top of the first upside down V-shaped piping and the second upside down V-shaped piping;

a first support member and a second support member running parallel that are connected at the bottom at an angle to the first rung;

a second rung connecting the top of the first support member and the second support member;

a third support member and a fourth support member running parallel that are connected at the bottom at an angle to the second rung and at the top to a third rung;

the first shorter pipe, the second shorter pipe, the first longer pipe, the second longer pipe, the first upside down V-shaped piping, the second upside down V-shaped piping, the first rung, the first support member, the second support member, the second rung, the third support member, the fourth support member and the third rung are made of PVC pipe; and

a rope that is made of nylon attached to a first ball on one end and a second ball on the other end.

8. The device of claim 7 further comprising a fifth support member and a sixth support member running parallel that are connected at the .bottom at an angle to the third rung and at the top to a fourth rung.