258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-473.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 473 Games using tangible projectile. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:07 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120040787/description.html

Application Number:  20120040787

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Ulmer, Russell Karl

A mechanical broadhead arrowhead has moveable blades that deploy from a retracted in-flight configuration to an outward deployed configuration as the broadhead strikes the target. Once in the deployed configuration, the blades are locked to each other against the resistance of the target, but freely pivot about the ferrule. Accordingly, if one blade strikes an obstruction such as a solid bone, the blade assembly simply pivots out of the way without damaging the blade, deflecting the trajectory ...
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Application Number:  20120040786

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Ng, Yik Sheung

A shuttlecock preferably includes a tail, a shuttle housing and an impact head. The tail includes at least three tail sections which are attached to each other and retained by a tail base. The shuttle housing preferably includes a first housing half, a second housing half and an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit preferably includes a circuit board, an vibration sensor, at least one light emitting device and a sound emitting device. The circuit board includes an electrical controller ...
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Application Number:  20120040785

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  De SORT, Jack William

Improvements in a football and beach ball to allow the balls to be used at night. The illumination from the “EL” lights gives the ball an exciting kaleidoscope of color as it spirals, adding a new and exciting twist to an old game in addition to adding safety to night play. The ball is made of various colored self-skinning flexible urethane foam, or elastomer and has grip ridges between electroluminescent lighting that surrounds ball. The ball is formed with grip ridges to allow small to ...
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Application Number:  20120040784

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Forester, Wayne

A method of changing vibration characteristics of a stringed racquet having strings includes providing an article of apparel with a mount thereon. The method also includes providing a slotted vibration dampener. Moreover, the method includes increasing dampening of the stringed raquet by moving the slotted vibration dampener from a first position to a second position. The slotted vibration dampener is removably attached to the mount in the first position. The slotted vibration dampener is ...
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Application Number:  20120040783

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Bucher, Tilman

The disclosure relates to a method for analysis of magnetic fields or signals used for the determination of the position of an object, wherein two temporally to each other shifted magnetic signals or fields are generated by two conductors arranged at least in part or completely separated from each other. The magnetic fields generated by the conductors are consecutively being captured by at least one and preferably three sensors arranged orthogonally to each other and determining from the ...
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Application Number:  20120040782

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Grabner, Walter Richard

The modifications to the ball allow the ball to be tethered to a control rope with snap fittings. The rod or tube rod permit the ball to rotate when hit and prevent the twisting of the control rope which keeps the ball under ...
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Application Number:  20120040781

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Edmiston, Randall; Cameron, Jon

An athletic training apparatus is disclosed with a low-ball deflection panel (130) used to keep the balls (140) in play. When combined with a ball machine (110), a dampening backdrop (100) and a collection trough (120), the apparatus improves the quantity of practice balls (140) available to the ...
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Application Number:  20120040780

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  FOURNIER, ALAIN

A batting tee with two spaced apart support arms extending upwardly from the base plate, two spaced apart retaining members extending between the support arms and connected thereto or to the base plate, and a pivot extending between the support arms at a location intermediate that of the two retaining members. The shaft's bottom end is received between the two support arms and between the two retaining members and is connected adjacent the bottom end to the two support arms by the pivot ...
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Application Number:  20120040779

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Lindh, Hans

Tool (1) for engagement in the ground including a holding portion (9) for turning of the tool around an axis of rotation (3), wherein an engagement portion (2) has a plurality of cutting blades (4) extending in directions from the holding portion (9) and being distributed around the axis of rotation (3) for pressing down into and engagement with the ground, said cutting blades each having a proximal end (5) and a distal free end ...
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Application Number:  20120040778

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Aoyama, Steven; Hebert, Edmund A.; Sullivan, Michael J.

A golf ball having an improved surface pattern is disclosed. The golf ball has one or more channels on its surface. The channels form spherical polygonal tiles that may include a plurality of dimples. These dimples may be circular or polygonal in ...
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Application Number:  20120040777

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Comeau, Brian; Ladd, Derek A.; Goguen, Douglas S.; Sullivan, Michael J.

Golf balls comprising a multi-layer core and a cover are disclosed. The multi-layer core comprises a thermoset rubber inner core, a thermoplastic first intermediate core layer, a thermoplastic second intermediate core layer, and a thermoset rubber outer core ...
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Application Number:  20120040776

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kim, Hyun J.; Jeon, Hong G.

Embodiments of the disclosed polymer composition comprise a first unsaturated polymer or polymer precursor, and an effective amount of a peptizer. The peptizer typically comprises a heteroaryl or a heterocyclic compound, other than morpholine as disclosed in assignee's prior applications. Disclosed polymer compositions are useful for making sports equipment, such as at least one layer of a golf ball, often a core. Because the compositions are useful for making golf balls, materials commonly ...
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Application Number:  20120040775

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Ichikawa, Yasushi

Embodiments provide systems and methods for manufacturing a multilayer golf ball having strong inter-layer bonding and desired structural characteristics, provided by including temporary, removable particles in a golf ball substrate and then removing the particles to form voids in the substrate, including the outer surface and interior of the substrate. Golf balls having the resulting strong inter-layer bonding and structural characteristics are also ...
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Application Number:  20120040774

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Alan, Mark; Mahalingappa, Jennifer R

A golf ball includes an inner layer, a cover layer, and a cavity. The cavity includes a conduit connecting the cavity with an exterior of the golf ball. The cavity contains a matrix comprising particles of a first material bound together by a second material. The first material has a density greater than water and the second material is water soluble. Upon prolonged submersion in water, the matrix dissolves allowing the first material particles to exit the cavity. The removal of the mass of the ...
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Application Number:  20120040773

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  GALLOWAY, J. ANDREW

The invention creates a unique combination of head shape and surface friction coefficients that minimize the bad effects of turf impact. The invention is an iron-type golf club head having a body composed of a stainless steel material and having a front wall, a sole portion and an undercut recess. The sole portion extends rearward from the front wall and has a main surface, a stepped surface and an edge between the main surface and the stepped ...
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Application Number:  20120040772

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Potter, Carlyle

A golf club includes a face for striking a golf ball and a sole. The face including a leading edge. The sole extends from the face leading edge. The sole includes at least one channel. Each channel includes a first end adjacent to the leading face leading edge, a second end spaced from the first end, a first sidewall and a second ...
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Application Number:  20120040771

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  ROLLINSON, AUGUSTIN W.; HILTON, THOMAS R.

A golf club putter having an alignment pattern is disclosed herein, The alignment pattern has first and second long lines that approach each other as they extend from an aft region of the putter to a front region of the putter and, when the putter is properly aligned with a golf ball, create an optical illusion of convergence of said lines at or near a center of the golf ball without actually ...
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Application Number:  20120040770

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Ryan, Clete William

A golf aid including a yoke portion with a pair of the divergent upper portions, a pair of forearm guide portions, one associated with each of the divergent upper portions of the yoke and a resilient means to bias the forearm guide portions into an extended condition whereby a user's forearms apply force to the forearm guide portions against the biasing force in order to maintain optimum spacing between the user's ...
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Application Number:  20120040769

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Swingle, Charles E.; Behrens, Wilhelm

A portable training device to be used by one practicing the game of tennis or golf. The training device includes a stand to rest on a flat surface, an adjustable hoop through which a tennis ball or a golf ball is hit, and a hoop support extending between the stand and the hoop. The adjustable hoop is rotatable between a vertical position, standing upwardly from and in axial alignment with the hoop support, and a horizontal position, facing the flat surface in perpendicular alignment with the ...
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Application Number:  20120040768

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Allen, Mark Andrew; Lister, Stephen Brice

There is disclosed a practice putting apparatus. The practice putting apparatus has a putting target, and a light source for lighting a guide path on a practice surface, the guide path being parallel to a putting line along which a golf ball is intended to be struck at said target to thereby provide a visual aid to alignment of the putter head when making a putting stroke along the putting ...
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Application Number:  20120040317

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Anderson, Gary

A method of golf instruction utilizing a schematic represented by a plurality of vertical, diagonal and circular lines which demonstrate a preferred golf swing. A video recorder, processor and monitor can be used to record the golf swing of a student aligned within the schematic. Corrections to the students swing can be made based on the deviation from the schematic. Additionally, the flight path of the ball can be determined based upon the deviation from the schematic and the adjusted flight ...
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Application Number:  20120035008

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Kume, Kazuhiro; Ono, Takashi; Yamashita, Yohei

There is provided a baseball including an inner core, and an outer core covering an outer circumferential surface of the inner core, the inner core being formed to have a dimension of 20% or more and 80% or less of an outer diameter of the inner core and the outer core of the baseball, and having a dynamic viscoelasticity loss coefficient (tanδ) of 0.3 or less, the outer core being formed to have a thickness of 10% or more and 40% or less of the outer diameter of the inner core and the outer ...
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Application Number:  20120035007

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Sanna, Keith Peter

The “Attachable Ball” is a ball that simply and easily attaches & detaches to a strap, leash, rope , string, wire or netting. The attachable ball has a slit or cut within it that will allow the strap to be inserted into the ball. The inside walls of the ball will grip the strap and stay put. The inside and or outside of the ball may have any raised or indented images. When the ball is attached it allows the person with the ball to carry it hands free. Some uses would be: Ball attached ...
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Application Number:  20120035006

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Bay, Larry R.

An arrow, arrowhead and method of shooting an arrowhead are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a plurality of blades extend outwardly from the body of an arrowhead and a sharpened tip extends forwardly. A front laser diode is disposed in the arrowhead and is arranged so that a laser beam emitted by the diode projects forward from the arrowhead through an aperture in the tip and is coaxial with the tip's center axis. In another example embodiment, the housing includes a rear facing light ...
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Application Number:  20120035005

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Forster, William

An exemplary sports goal includes two goalposts and a crossbar extending between upper portions of the two goalposts to define an opening. At least one of the crossbar and the two goalposts, and possibly each of the crossbar and the goalposts, has a facet that is oriented partially towards the opening. This promotes deflection of scoring objects through the opening. Scoring opportunities may be enhanced as a result. An alternative exemplary sports goal includes a crossbar and two uprights ...
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Application Number:  20120035004

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  FLORES, DAVID

An exercise training device in the form of a baseball bat or other sports-related equipment that has been modified to have dual handles. The device is adapted to be attached to a weight resistance system in order to perform abdominal exercises while doing baseball or other sports-related motions and plyometric ...
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Application Number:  20120035003

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  MORAN, Padraic; McGUIRE, John; HUNT, William

A system for golf data collection comprises an apparatus arranged to be worn about the body of a golfer during a game of golf. The apparatus includes a positioning system for determining various locations of a golfer during the game, a tag reader for reading a club held in close proximity to the apparatus around the time of striking a golf ball, and a processor for correlating the location of the golfer with the time at which a tag is read to enable the path of a golf ball throughout the game ...
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Application Number:  20120035002

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  TAKEHANA, Eiji; IIZUKA, Kae

In a colored golf ball having a core, a cover of at least one layer encasing the core and a coat of paint applied to a surface of an outermost layer of the cover, the outermost cover layer is formed of a resin composition which includes (a) a thermoplastic resin, (b) a color pigment or dye, (c) titanium oxide, and (d) a lubricant. The resin composition has a total light transmittance of at least 1.0 but not more than 40, and a diffuse transmittance of at least 1.0 but not more than 40. The ...
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Application Number:  20120035001

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Xie, Rui

Disclosed herein is a golf ball having improved cut and shear resistance. Such gold balls comprise a core, an inner cover layer, and an outer cover layer, the outer cover layer being formed from a polyurea or poly(urea-co-urethane) comprising: 1) a polyurea prepolymer comprising: the reaction product of at least one first polyisocyanate, wherein the polyisocyanate has a reactivity greater than that of 4,4′-methylene bis(cyclohexyl) isocyanate and a functionality of 1.7 to 2.3, and at least ...
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Application Number:  20120035000

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Yu, Joseph; Chao, Bing-Ling

Certain disclosed embodiments concern making sports equipment, such as golf club heads, using polishing marks to facilitate removing material from as-cast work pieces to produce a final thickness within a desired specification, such as 0.6 millimeter or less ±0.05 millimeter. At least one polish mark, more typically plural polish marks, is formed into an outer surface of an as-cast article to a depth selected to provide a final product thickness subsequent to polishing that is ±0.05 ...
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Application Number:  20120034999

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Boyd, Robert; Stites, John T.; Cheng, Chia-Chyi; Tavares, Gary G.

A golf club head system and a golf club head for inclusion into a golf club are provided. The golf club head includes a main body member and a secondary body member. The main body member has a striking surface, a sole portion, a crown portion, and a rear face substantially opposed to the striking surface. The main body member defines an at least substantially enclosed main body cavity. The secondary body member is attached to the main body member and extends at least substantially over the ...
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Application Number:  20120034998

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Sukman, Jesse D.

A golf club head having a striking wall having a front surface, and a rear surface, a top surface, and a sole portion extending rearwardly from the rear surface, the sole portion having a forward end, a rearward end, an upper surface and a lower surface. The intersection of the upper surface and the rear surface defines an interior sole line. The intersection of the upper surface and the rearward end defines a trailing edge. A region on the upper surface includes variation of the height of the ...
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Application Number:  20120034997

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Swartz, Gregory J.

Embodiments of golf club heads with an edge configuration and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. Other embodiments of golf club heads with an edge configuration may be described and ...
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Application Number:  20120034996

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Galvan, Darryl C.; Murphy, Stephen S.

A golf club incorporating an interchangeable shaft system includes a shaft, a shaft sleeve, a club head. The shaft sleeve is coupled to an end of the shaft and is received in a hosel included in the club head. The shaft sleeve is removably coupled to the club head. Hosel and shaft sleeve alignment features provide discrete orientations between the shaft and club ...
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Application Number:  20120034995

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Harvell, Christopher D.; Murphy, Stephen S.

A golf club incorporating an interchangeable shaft system includes a shaft, a shaft sleeve, a club head. The shaft sleeve is coupled to an end of the shaft and is received in a hosel included in the club head. The shaft sleeve is removably coupled to the club head. Hosel and shaft sleeve alignment features provide discrete orientations between the shaft and club ...
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Application Number:  20120034994

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Zimmerman, Gery M.; Knutson, Scott A.; Stokes, Joshua C.

A golf club incorporating an interchangeable shaft system includes a shaft, a shaft sleeve, a club head. The shaft sleeve is coupled to an end of the shaft and is received in a hosel included in the club head. The shaft sleeve is removably coupled to the club head. Hosel and shaft sleeve alignment features provide discrete orientations between the shaft and club ...
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Application Number:  20120034993

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Johnson, Lanny

A golf grip that provides a user with tactile feedback is provided. The golf grip includes a grip body having an upper portion, a lower portion, a grip length, a proximal end, a distal end, and an exterior body surface. The exterior body surface is defined by a first octant, a second octant, a third octant, a fourth octant, a fifth octant, a sixth octant, a seventh octant, and an eighth octant. The golf grip includes at least a first tactile channel that extends longitudinally along the ...
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Application Number:  20120034992

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Boyd, Robert; Tavares, Gary; Stites, John T.

Golf club heads (e.g., drivers, fairway woods, wood-type hybrid clubs, or the like) according to at least some example aspects of this invention include: (a) a heel; (b) a toe; (c) a crown; (d) a sole; (e) a striking face; (f) a cavity, wherein the cavity is at least partially open; (g) a rear face opposite the striking face, the rear face defining an opening to the cavity; and (h) a rear body member configured to be inserted into the opening. The rear body member may be releasably engaged with ...
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Application Number:  20120034991

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Deshmukh, Uday V.; Hartwell, Bradford Hughes

A golf club head with an improved face insert is disclosed herein. More specifically, the present invention discloses a golf club head wherein the face insert has a cavity near the top surface of the face insert that extends vertically downward towards the bottom surface of the face insert while terminating short of the bottom surface. The face insert having the cavity serves to remove unnecessary weight from the upper surface weight of the face insert; while the cavity that terminates short of ...
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Application Number:  20120034990

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  COHEN, Mark; FARNAN, Robert

A golf putter has a head and a shaft affixed to the head, the head having a front face for striking a ball and a rear face and is constructed and designed to assist the golfer in aligning the putter for propelling the ball to be putted in the desired direction. The head comprises a central section with a front face, the central section extending from proximate the head's front face towards the head's rear face and tapering rearward outwardly in width in plan, and a pair of side sections ...
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Application Number:  20120034989

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Novosel, SR., John Michael

An apparatus and method for a hinged golf swing training club that provides the kinesthetic feeling of the three most important mechanical aspects of the golf swing: the backswing, the transition and the release. It is composed of an upper portion, lower portion, hinge assembly, and a removable elastic means that can be attached to the upper portion and lower portions of the ...
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Application Number:  20120034988

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Fontanilla, Nel R.

A harness assembly for use in controlling and directing the swing of a golf club is shown and described. The harness assembly comprises plurality of flexible cords that stretch and wrap a portion of the body of a golfer when the golf club is swung. One cord attaches one end to the end of the golf club handle and the other end to the belt of the golfer. Another cord attaches one end to the right arm of the golfer and the other end to the belt of the golfer. Another cord attaches one end to the ...
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Application Number:  20120034987

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Lucchesi, Gary

Improvement of a cue stick for playing pool and the like by providing a nylon tip for contact a ball to be struck. The nylon tip may be nylon 6/12 and may be formed from rod stock of diameter of 0.6125 ...
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Application Number:  20120034986

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Stites, Kelye; Bohn, Martin G.

A pool table corner assembly for forming a corner pocket including a pair of adjacent rail members, a corner casting member, and a pocket member. Each rail member includes a supporting flange portion, a recessed portion, and a generally horizontal top surface. The corner casting member includes an overhanging mounting flange for mating with the recessed portion of each rail member thereby allowing the upper surface of the corner casting member to lie flush with the top surface of each rail ...
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Application Number:  20120028743

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Silverglate, David E.; Muldoon, Ian R.

A toy ball apparatus is disclosed herein that includes a mesh defining an outer surface of the toy ball apparatus. The mesh includes four mesh components that are coupled together to enclose a closed volume, each mesh component including a plurality of loop structures, each loop structure having a curved inner perimeter surface formed to at least partially surround a hole communicating with the closed volume and surrounded at least partially by a polygonal outer perimeter. Each mesh component ...
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Application Number:  20120028742

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  VAN DER LINDEN, JAY EDWARD

A scent shooter apparatus and scent filled pellet is disclosed. The scent shooter may include a projectile launcher. A vessel may be coupled to the projectile launcher and configured to hold a pellet and release the pellet during operation of the apparatus. The apparatus may include a piercer mounted on the vessel. The piercer may be disposed to pierce the pellet during operation of the apparatus. The scent filled pellet may include a hardened shell. A control release agent may be disposed ...
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Application Number:  20120028741

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Palomaki, Teddy D.; Giles, Kenny R.; Mizek, Robert S.; Hinschberger, Ross M.

An arrow apparatus includes a hollow arrow shaft, an arrow point alignment structure, an arrow point, and a central connection member. The hollow arrow shaft has an outer surface, an interior, and a leading end surface. The arrow point alignment structure includes a tapered portion and is positioned on the outer surface of the arrow shaft at a location proximal of the leading end surface of the arrow shaft. The arrow point is in contact with the tapered portion of the arrow point alignment ...
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Application Number:  20120028740

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Nye, S. Curtis; Steed, Brent

In one example, a basketball system includes a basketball goal, a support structure, a connecting structure connecting the basketball goal and the support structure, and a height adjustment mechanism connected to the support structure and the connecting structure. The height adjustment mechanism includes: a biasing mechanism connected at least indirectly to the connecting structure and including a locking pin movable between a first position where the biasing mechanism is locked and a second ...
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Application Number:  20120028739

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Stevens, Larry

A basketball backboard assembly and a method of making the backboard assembly are disclosed. The assembly includes a backboard frame structure and an acrylic backboard which are bonded together with a suitable elastomeric adhesive, providing adequate adhesion and flexibility. The elastomeric adhesive has a bond gap in the range from 2 to 2.5 mm. The adhesive is catalyzed to provide control of the set time in the range from about 5 minutes to 1 hour. A plurality of bond gap spacers are located ...
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Application Number:  20120028738

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Love, Corey Shane

A training glove or a strap comprising a rubberized fixture affixed to said palmar side of each of the said glove or strap to enable the player to securely grasp a ball thrown towards the palms of at said player, wherein the thumb is substantially not connected with any other finger of the player, either in the strap or glove embodiment, wherein the rubberized fixture is a protrusion to allow the fingers of each palm of the player to engage the ball to curl substantially to grasp the ball ...
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