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 Title: |
US4119247:
Garment-supportable tennis ball pocket
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Newquist, Barbara Lee; Scarsdale, NY 10583
Newquist, Scott C.; New York, NY 10028
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1978-10-10
/ 1977-04-28
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| Application Number: |
US1977000791868
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A63B 47/00;
IPC-7:
A45F 5/00;
A63B 61/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A63B47/00B;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
224/191;
211/014;
224/919;
0D3/221;
Original:
224/005.D;
211/014;
D02/400;
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| Field of Search: |
224/5 D,45 L,5 R,2 B,2 C,2 D,5 A,5 B,26 R,26 B,26 K,28 R,28 B
211/014
D02/400,452,25
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| Priority Number: |
| 1977-04-28 |
US1977000791868 |
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| Abstract: |
Garment-supportable tennis ball pocket including an ovally-open circumambient and lateral rim of relatively stiff, flexible material, e.g., plastic, having elastic recovery memory and with a pair of generally opposite sections thereof forming non-circular bights with opposed sides of each such bight positioned more closely toward each other than the sides of the opposed pair of intervening sections and with the latter defining arcs of appreciably lesser curvature. This pocket also includes a plurality of elongated and flexible members of similar plastic depending down from its rim at annularly spaced areas and converging appreciably therebelow to a bottom common connection whereby they define together a ball-holding pocket with lateral openings between these depending members being too small for such ball to exit therethrough, and with the rim retaining its ovally-open shape when a tennis ball is in the pocket whereby exit of the ball out through the rim opening is prevented until the latter is reshaped to a substantially circular form by application of suitable internal and/or external forces. Fastening equipment is used to attach this ball pocket to a person's clothing.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Watson, Leavenworth, Kelton & Taggart ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Blix, Trygve M.; Forsberg, Jerold M.
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None
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First Claim:
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Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is the novel subjects matter defined in the following claims:
1. A garment-supportable tennis ball pocket comprising
- (1) an ovally-open circumambient and lateral rim of relatively stiff, flexible material having transverse elastic recovery memory while being substantially inelastic longitudinally and with a pair of generally opposite sections thereof forming non-circular bights with opposed sides of each such bight positioned more closely toward each other than the sides of the opposed pair of intervening sections and with the latter defining arcs of appreciably lesser curvature, said circumambient rim being of an annular dimension which permits a tennis ball to slip therethrough when this rim is forced into a substantially circular shape;
- (2) a plurality of elongated and flexible members depending down from said circumambient rim at annularly spaced areas and converging appreciably below this rim to a bottom common connection whereby they define together a ball-holding pocket below the rim with lateral openings between said members being too small for such ball to exit therethrough, and with the rim retaining its ovally-open shape when a tennis ball is in the pocket whereby exit of the ball out through the rim is prevented until the latter is reshaped to a substantially circular form by applying suitable lateral forces; and
- (3) means to fasten said pocket to an exterior of a person's clothing.
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