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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
May. 31, 2012
Marc Kapsalis, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Erzabeth J. Fekete, Belgrade, ME (US);
Melanine Anne Ouellette, Huntersville, NC (US);
Ian Jensen Gillerman, Rehoboth, MA (US);
Aren Yale Paster, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Mark Walter Steiner, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Andrew S. Miller, New Hartford, NY (US);
Marc Kapsalis, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Erzabeth J. Fekete, Belgrade, ME (US);
Melanine Anne Ouellette, Huntersville, NC (US);
Ian Jensen Gillerman, Rehoboth, MA (US);
Aren Yale Paster, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Mark Walter Steiner, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Andrew S. Miller, New Hartford, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
A dasher board assembly, particularly well-suited for an ice hockey rink, includes a number of advantageous structures including an ice dam (ice retainer), puck rebound facilitator backing a kickplate, and a unitary rigid L-shaped anchoring device for the dasher board frame. The ice dam has a main body component and a lip upstanding from the body a distance sufficient to assist in blocking moisture movement past the dasher board and to provide an open space. The rigid L-shaped anchoring device is connected by fasteners to vertical elements of the dasher board frame, and to the ice dam body, to provide stable mounting of the frame. The puck rebound facilitator may be a buckling elastomeric tube that is essentially rigid when a hockey puck impacts the kickplate but buckles to absorb the force of impact if a hockey player strikes the dasher board.