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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 02, 1995
Thomas S Gabhart, Huntingburg, IN (US);
Other;
Abstract
An elongated body having front and rear sides and upper and lower margins as well as opposite end margins. The body defines endwise outwardly opening slots between the front and rear sides thereof and the slots also open upwardly and downwardly through the upper and lower margins, respectively. The slots include wide upper end portions and narrow lower end portions and downwardly receive the handles of a pair of inverted table tennis paddles therein with the handles projecting upwardly from the upper margin and the head panels of the paddles projecting downwardly from the lower margin. The opposite end slots are spaced apart longitudinally of the body and the latter defines a pair of upwardly opening ball receiving recesses spaced between the slots. A pair of forwardly and upwardly opening access slots are defined by the body in registry with and opening rearwardly into the recesses and through the front side of the holder. The access slots terminate downwardly a spaced distance below the lower extremities of the ball receiving recesses and the access slots are smaller in width than the ball receiving recesses and are of a size sufficiently wide to receive a person's finger therethrough, but sufficiently narrow to prevent forward movement of a table tennis ball therethrough.