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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8100782 | Lacrosse practice device A lacrosse practice and/or training device allows a person to practice throwing and catching by themselves. The device includes an anchor mechanism that slides over the top of a lacrosse stick head, a cord, and a ball. A single cord connects the anchor mechanism to ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7223186 | Apparatus, assemblies and methods for training athletes An athletic training assembly and methods suitable for use in training basketball players. The training assembly allows a ball to be suspended at a selectable height by a suspension member that is attached to a spring loaded reel. The spring loaded reel urges the ba... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7048653 | Ball retrieval device for ball games, particularly for tennis rackets A ball retrieval device, particularly for integration in a tennis racket, includes a rotatable spool with a longitudinally displaceable carriage arranged thereon. Through rotation of the spool, a rubber-elastic thread element can be wound up on the latter or unwound... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6716120 | Hockey training aid The hockey training aid is a blade having a shank for inserting a stick handle and containing a channel along the lower edge of the blade. A string is fastened at one end to a puck and at the other end to a ball-shaped bead that is freely movable within the channel.... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6402647 | Kick-strengthening soccer practice ball, and production and training A kick-strengthening practice soccer ball is given a little extra weight but preferably softened also for enhance shock absorption when kicked. The practice ball has an inflatable bladder, a carcass of tough durable material, and an intermediary sheath of... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6322460 | Batting practice device A batting practice device comprising a resiliently flexible and elongate retaining rod, a target member coupled to a distal end of the elongate retaining rod, and a clamping structure for clamping a proximal end of the elongate retaining rod to an environ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6224523 | Cord controller of exercise device A cord controlling device is used in conjunction with a game racket and is composed essentially of a housing formed of a base and an upper cover. The base is provided with a fastening portion by which the device is fastened with the head frame network of ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6062993 | Detachable tennis volley practice device A tennis teaching aid for use in instructing tennis players in multiple areas of the game, those areas being: (1) teaching a player how to volley(hit balls in the air close to the net) more effectively by limiting reaction time thus forcing a player to us... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6048281 | Sport training tension device A sports training tension device that utilizes interchangeable attachment connectors for attaching elastomeric tubing sections between a standard piece of sporting equipment, such as a tennis racket, racquetball racket, etc. and a fixed location such as a... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5816945 | Hockey training device A hockey training device comprising a leader having a swivel attached to one end thereto permit rotation of leader without twisting of the leader and a stop attached to second end of the leader for securing the leader to a hockey puck to enable a person t... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5649699 | Racquet sports training device A racquet sports training device which can be used by one person alone, either indoors or outdoors, and which enables the user to hit a ball with the racquet and have the ball returned to him thereby allowing repeated hitting and even while the user is on... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5409217 | Tennis training device A tennis training device comprising a tennis racket with its usual strings; a pair of rods each disposed on a different side of the strings adjacent a sweet spot of the strings; a first arrangement extending through the strings to detachably secure the pa... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5120055 | Detachable hockey trainer A practice hockey puck is connected to the blade of a hockey stick by a removable elastic cord in such a way as not to alter the characteristics of either the hockey puck or the hockey stick. The puck and the tether are easily attached or removed from the... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4784389 | Baseball batting practice device A baseball batting practice device is disclosed as a bat having a recess formed at the large end to nestingly receive a spinning reel. The reel is oriented to pay-out a fishing line at a right angle to the bat axis, the fishing line is secured to a baseba... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4714246 | Exercise device A disk is provided with two diametrically opposed handles. A resilient ball is tethered to the center of the disk by a flexible, but substantially inelastic line, said line being slightly shorter than the radius of the disk. Weights may be attached to the... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4111419 | Practice hockey puck A practice hockey puck for use in individual practice on surfaces other than ice. The practice hockey puck body may be a standard hockey puck altered so as to have a plurality of headed pins disposed about the periphery of the two flat surfaces thereon. H... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4071239 | Demountable practice device attachable to the strings of a stringed racquet A demountable practice device for use with a conventional stringed racquet such as a tennis racquet or the like and including an elastic tether attached to a flexural, arcuate anchor member mounted solely on the racquet strings so that striking of the bal... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4023797 | Hockey puck tethering device A hockey puck tethering practice and training device for developing stick handling skills has a tethering line attached to a hockey puck and wound on the spool of a reel assembly mounted on a hockey stick. The tethering line is protected by a shock-absorb... | 05/17/1977 |
