Apparatus and method for sports throwing cage

• US 9,889,366 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2015
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trevor Bowman
• Original Assignee: Trevor Bowman
• Inventors: Bowman, Trevor
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh, Loan H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Megan
• Application Number:
  US14/614,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20160236063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 121121, 121 35
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 65/04 Throwing-hammers
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 65/10 Discus discs; Quoits
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/022 Backstops, cages, enclosures or the like, e.g. for spectator protection, for arresting balls

Abstract

Apparatus and method for sports throwing cage. The apparatus might be a pole with multiple curtain couplings and multiple points of contact, a support, and a bend. The curtain couplings hang a vertical net curtain. The support and the bend adapt the bent pole to provide an offset from the vertical net curtain.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a pole, at least one arm attached to the pole, the at least one arm comprising a plurality of curtain couplings adapted to vertically hang a vertical net curtain to create a sports throwing cage to contain an implement as thrown in an athletic event, wherein said plurality of curtain couplings create at least two points of contact on the pole to hang said vertical net curtain;

wherein said pole further includes a plurality of branch poles coupled to a bend in the pole, such that the at least one arm is attached to one of the plurality of branch poles.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a second arm coupled to said pole, said second arm coupled to at least two curtain couplings of the plurality of curtain couplings.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said at least one arm is substantially horizontal.

4. An apparatus comprising:

a pole including at least one arm, the at least one arm comprising a plurality of curtain couplings adapted to vertically hang a vertical net curtain to create a sports throwing cage to contain an implement as thrown in an athletic event, wherein said plurality of curtain couplings create at least two points of contact on the pole to hang said vertical net curtain,

wherein said pole includes a support, a top pole and a bend, with said pole having a pole height and said bend situated in said pole at a bend height, and

wherein said support is coupled through said bend to the top pole and the at least one arm coupled to the plurality of curtain couplings and adapted to hang the vertical net curtain; and

said pole being adapted to form an offset between said pole and said vertical net curtain.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

a package having at least said pole.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

said sports throwing cage including a second pole.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said second pole supports a multiplicity of branch poles, wherein each of said multiplicity of branch poles supports a respective at least one arm, wherein each of the at least one arms of said multiplicity of branch poles include at least two of said plurality of curtain couplings.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein said sports throwing cage includes a third pole, the third pole including a horizontal arm supporting at least two of said plurality of curtain couplings.

9. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising:

said support having a rectangular cross section or a round cross section for at least part of a length of said bent pole.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a pole including at least one arm and a plurality of curtain couplings adapted to vertically hang a vertical net curtain to create a sports throwing cage to contain an implement as thrown in an athletic event, wherein said plurality of curtain couplings create at least two points of contact on the pole to hang said vertical net curtain,

the at least one arm comprising a multiplicity of arms coupled to said pole, each of said multiplicity of arms coupled at least two of said plurality of curtain couplings, and

a multiplicity of branch poles, coupled to the pole, wherein each of said multiplicity of branch poles supports at least one of said multiplicity of arms, each of the multiplicity of arms coupled to at least two of said plurality of curtain couplings.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a pole including at least plural arms each of the at least plural arms including a plurality of curtain couplings adapted to vertically hang a vertical net curtain to create a sports throwing cage to contain an implement as thrown in an athletic event, wherein said plurality of curtain couplings create at least two points of contact on the pole to hang the vertical net curtain,

wherein said pole includes a support, a top pole and a bend, with said pole having a pole height and said bend situated in said pole at a bend height,

wherein said support is coupled through said bend to the top pole that supports the at least plural arms having said plurality of curtain couplings adapted to hang the vertical net curtain; and

adapting said pole to form an offset between said pole and said vertical net curtain.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 further comprising:

a multiplicity of branch poles coupled to the pole, wherein each of said multiplicity of branch poles supports at least one of said at least plural arms, each of the at least plural arms including at least two of said plurality of curtain couplings.