Class 473/432 - Return chute

Subclass of Class 473 - Games using tangible projectile
Definition: Practice or training device wherein the projectile return
No. of patents: 34
Last issue date: 04/24/2007

Number	Title	Issue Date
7207906	Collapsible basketball return device A collapsible basketball return device including pairs of front and rear vertical telescoping posts. Lower and upper horizontal telescoping side support arms extend between a lower portion of each of the front and rear posts. Lower and upper horizontal telescoping e...	04/24/2007
7156761	Air actuated soft toss batting practice apparatus The instant invention relates to a training device for batting practice. More specifically, the instant invention provides a catch net in combination with an air powered ball return assembly. The ball return assembly delivers a lightweight polymeric ball to a batter...	01/02/2007
7150689	Pitching practice apparatus A pitching practice apparatus for indicating if a desired ball speed has been attained or exceeded in a defined strike zone comprising a pivoted ball target assembly for absorbing energy from the ball, a spring for storing the absorbed energy, a ball speed indicator...	12/19/2006
7137910	Rotating wheel return mechanism A practice machine for receiving a thrown ball and returning it to a user is generally provided with a backstop for stopping the thrown ball, a pan disposed below the backstop for collecting the ball, a ball return adjacent the backstop for expelling the ball, and a...	11/21/2006
7137911	Table tennis ball return mechanism A ball return mechanism for use with a table tennis table for returning a ball to a player. The table tennis table includes a net, a first side and a second side located on opposite sides of the net. The ball return mechanism includes a first return line including a...	11/21/2006
7121965	Ice-hockey goal frame with puck deflector The puck-deflector is a one-piece moulding in polyurethane, having a sloping apron for deflecting the puck up and into the net. The puck-deflector fits around the bottom pipe of the goalframe, and prevents incoming pucks from striking the bottom pipe, and rebounding...	10/17/2006
7056241	Volleyball net support system A volleyball practice system that includes a support frame with a pair of post supports. Each of the post supports being mounted on a base that is supported on wheels, and the pair of post supports being connected to one another by a telescoping or adjustable horizo...	06/06/2006
6966853	Hockey training device A hockey training device for teaching hockey puck shooting. The hockey training device includes a panel having a front edge, a back edge, a first side edge and a second side edge, a top side and a bottom side. The top side has an apex extending from the front edge t...	11/22/2005
6620064	Return net device A portable return net device for receiving, arresting and returning a ball to a central collection point for pitched, thrown or batted balls in a ball practice system. The return net apparatus comprises; a net supporting frame, a net for receiving a proje...	09/16/2003
6595877	Basketball return net assembly with adjustment bracket A basketball return net assembly is attachable to a basketball hoop support having a post extending upwardly from the ground and carrying a basketball hoop adjacent an upper end thereof. The return net assembly includes a flexible foldable return net and ...	07/22/2003
6283876	Tennis training system A ball striking training system that delivers balls to a user's hitting zone without a horizontal velocity component includes a hopper to hold a plurality of balls and a feeding mechanism which delivers tennis balls to an outlet tube where they are droppe...	09/04/2001
6264572	Sports equipment Equipment for use in training penalty taking. The equipment for use with a goal comprising goal posts and a cross bar defining a goal area. The goal area is partially occluded by a transparent or translucent barrier the areas harder to reach by a goalkeep...	07/24/2001
5779569	Directional ball return chute A ball return chute for a basketball hoop, and a modular basket assembly utilizing the novel chute. The chute engages the hoop by C-shaped members which slip over the rod stock of the hoop at the slot formed in each C. The chute can be rotated three hundr...	07/14/1998
5746670	Batting swing training device An automated batting swing training apparatus for providing a continuous, successive supply of predominantly vertically tossed balls for a batter to hit. The apparatus includes a ball projector that propels balls for the batter to hit. The balls are prope...	05/05/1998
5569094	Golf practice net A portable net has an erected configuration for practicing golf or the like by stopping the flight of a golf ball and returning it to a selected location and a folded configuration for storage or transport. The portable net has an elastic frame that forms...	10/29/1996
5556106	Soccer training device and method of training A soccer training device that permits soccer kicking practice from one or more kicking locations and includes a generally vertical screen that is adapted to receive and absorb the kinetic energy of the soccer balls kicked into the screen. A trough is loca...	09/17/1996
5271616	Pitching target apparatus A pitching device for training pitchers including a pitching target suspended within a retaining chamber with a collecting means located in the lower portion of the retaining chamber and a gravity return from the collecting means back to the pitchers. The...	12/21/1993
5246229	Street hockey apparatus A street hockey goal has a tubular frame with a net for catching a hockey ball, the silhouette of a goal tender mounted at the goal frame opening, and a slanting floor panel for returning a ball caught by the net, toward the player....	09/21/1993
5193802	Portable, asymmetrically displaced, self-centering ball catching and return apparatus and method A portable ball catcher and return apparatus having an upright frame and a net supported on the frame. The frame is comprised of a horizontal U-shaped base member and an inverted vertically extending U-shaped member attached to the base member. A net havi...	03/16/1993
5062646	Volleyball training apparatus A pair of spaced, wall-mounted frames support an abbreviated volleyball net and a no-rebound ball barrier which catches and returns a ball struck over the net. The frames are pivotably mounted and may be folded toward one another whereby the net and ball ...	11/05/1991
4971319	Tennis ball returner A tennis ball retriever includes a return net which is located adjacent to the base of a tennis net and which is oriented to bounce tennis balls back to a player after such tennis balls have impacted the tennis net....	11/20/1990
4913427	Baseball pitching target with a ball return A baseball pitching target with a ball return is provided and consists of a return chute angularly elevated to extend away from a box-like enclosure having an open front end with a target frame vertically suspended between the open front end of the enclos...	04/03/1990
4836542	Football kicking practice device A football kicking practice device comprising similar frame parts joined by a front top transverse member to be disposed in parallel vertical orientation, with such frame parts including horizontal rearwardly extending portions joining vertical downwardly...	06/06/1989
4657250	Baseball pitching practice apparatus A pitching practice apparatus includes a frontal mechanical strike zone target at which the pitcher aims the ball and which contains yielding elements enabling the ball to pass rearwardly through a photoelectric sensing plane having sensing beams on two o...	04/14/1987
4615528	Soccer training device A soccer training device for guiding a soccer ball back to the approximate location from where it was kicked or thrown. The device comprises a frame, including an eave, and a net connected to the frame. The frame and net define a partially enclosed pocket...	10/07/1986
4489941	Sports net apparatus A sports net and frame includes inner frame members, a substantially rectangular outer frame and a netting material. The inner frame is characterized by at least two adjusting rods, each rod being attached by spring elements in a spaced relationship to a ...	12/25/1984
4286786	Soccer training goal A soccer training goal comprising, a goal frame with a net connected thereto which defines a goal space with a goal opening. An inclined plate is connected to the goal frame at the bottom of the goal space and is inclined downwardly toward the goal openin...	09/01/1981
4275883	Pitching target with ball return A pitching target with ball return which indicates whether a baseball pitch is either a strike or a ball and, if a strike, the location of the strike, i.e.: outside corner. The ball return includes an inclined ball collecting trough for return of the thro...	06/30/1981
4243221	Training device for practicing the service in tennis A device is disclosed for practicing the serve in tennis which provides a second or practice net. The practice net is erected above and in the same general vertical plane as the conventional net used for playing tennis where it will intercept balls hit ov...	01/06/1981
4083561	Soccer practice net A soccer practice net and goal structure is disclosed which is particularly useful in the training of players for the game of soccer. This soccer practice net can be used as a goal structure for games between teams on a large playing area or readily conve...	04/11/1978
3942795	Table tennis game A game board in combination with a table tennis table, the board being movable on the table to selected positions and angularly adjustable both as to angle of inclination from the horizontal and angle of inclination with respect to the longitudinal axis o...	03/09/1976

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