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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1990
John Joseph, Upper Sandusky, OH (US);
Other;
Abstract
A free-standing, portable basketball retrieval and return apparatus for collecting and returning a succession of shot basketballs to a practicing player includes a vertically-extensible and collapsible support frame, support arms pivotally connected to the support frame, and netting material attached to the support arms for retrieving and collecting shot basketballs and a chute permanently secured to the netting material for directing retrieved basketballs therethrough to a guideway. The basketballs are then directed from the guidewall to an elongated, extensible ramp and therealong to a ramp barrier whereupon the practicing player can retrieve the returned basketballs in order to continue uninterrupted practice shooting. Means are provided, preferably in the form of wheels, which, in combination with the collapsible support frame, enables movement of the apparatus as a unit between its operative position and a storage location as a one-man operation. The apparatus is adapted for use with a pole- or wall-mounted backboard or, alternatively, with a backboard member which is removably secured to the top of the support frame in a position substantially in the same vertical plane as the support frame.