Hockey skills training system and method of using the same

• US 9,950,231 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: That's Epic! LLC
• Original Assignee: Courtney John Bulloch
• Inventors: Bulloch, Courtney John
• Primary Examiner(s): GRAHAM, MARK S
• Application Number:
  US15/054,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20160250538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 788 Days
• Field of Search: 273398-402, 472 90, 472 92, 473446, 473478
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/004 Goals of the type used for football, handball, hockey or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0026 for ice-hockey

Abstract

A hockey skills training system comprising a high density polymer game board surface; a pair of nested goals disposed on one side of the shooting surface; a handle attached to the shooting surface; and at least one puck.

Claims

1. A system for hockey skills training, said system comprising:

a pair of separable high density polymer game boards, each game board defining a respective playing surface extending between opposite front and rear ends of the game board;

a pair of nested first and second goals disposed at the rear end of each game board, the first goal having a first opening entered from the playing surface, the second goal having a second opening entered from the playing surface, each goal comprising netting extending rearwardly of the respective game board; and

at least one puck receivable into a first or second goal through the respective first or second opening;

wherein each first goal comprises an arcuate first member extending between opposite ends thereof at which the first member is attachable to a game board; and

wherein each second goal comprises a second member extending between opposite ends thereof at which the second member is attachable to the respective game board, the second member and the playing surface defining the second opening.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each first goal comprises netting attached to the first member, the netting defining a first puck-receiving space;

wherein each second goal comprises netting attached to the second member, the netting defining a second puck-receiving space; and

wherein the entireties of the first and second puck-receiving spaces are located substantially rearwardly of the respective game board rear end.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the entirety of the second puck-receiving space is located substantially within the first puck-receiving space.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first goal comprises netting attached to the first member, the netting defining a first puck-receiving space, and a piping member attached to the netting, the piping member adapted to place a portion of the netting in a ground-engaging position whereby a ground surface defines the first puck-receiving space.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the second opening, the playing surface and the first member define the first opening.

6. A system for hockey skills training, said system comprising:

a pair of separable high density polymer game boards, each game board defining a respective playing surface extending between opposite front and rear ends of the game board;

a pair of nested first and second goals disposed at the rear end of each game board, the first goal having a first opening entered from the playing surface, the second goal having a second opening entered from the playing surface, each goal comprising netting extending rearwardly of the respective game board; and

at least one puck receivable into a first or second goal through the respective first or second opening;

wherein the first and second goals are detachable from the game boards and each game board defines an interior space receivable of the first and second goals, whereby the detached goals are storable in the interior space.

7. A hockey skills training system comprising:

a board defining a hard low friction polymer playing surface extending between longitudinally opposite front and rear ends of the board;

a first goal disposed at the rear end of said board, the first goal comprising a semi-rigid arch member extending laterally across the playing surface; and

a second goal comprising a member extending laterally across the playing surface and nested within the first goal, the first and second goals removably attached to the board;

wherein the first goal arch member comprises a first member extending between opposite ends thereof at which the first member is attachable to the board, the first member and the playing surface defining a first goal opening; and

wherein the second goal member comprises a second member extending between opposite ends thereof at which the second member is attachable to the board, the second member and the playing surface defining a second goal opening.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first goal comprises netting attached to the first member, the netting defining a first puck-receiving space;

and

wherein the second goal comprises netting attached to the second member, the netting defining a second puck-receiving space.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the entireties of the first and second puck-receiving spaces are located substantially rearwardly of the board rear end.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the entirety of the second puck-receiving space is located substantially within the first puck-receiving space.