Patent ID: 6565460
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A foldable basketball frame assembly comprising:a backboard having four flanges extending from four sides of said backboard, said four flanges being a top flange, two side flanges and a bottom flange, a cover connected to said bottom flange on a lower end of said backboard, said backboard having a rim hoop pivotably connected thereto; a first transverse bar connected to said flange on said lower end of said backboard, two two-way connection members respectively connected to two ends of said first transverse bar, two foldable siderails respectively connected said two two-way connection members and a three-way connection member connected to a distal end of each siderail, a second transverse bar connected between said two three-way connection members, each siderail including two rods and a connection part pivotally connected between said two rods, a sleeve movably mounted to each of said connection parts, an end of each of said two rods and said connection part received in said sleeve, each of said connection part having two tongues on two ends thereof and each tongue having an aperture, an end of each of said two rods having a slit so as to receive one of said two tongues therein, two bosses respectively extending from two insides defining said slit, said two bosses of each rod received in said aperture in said tongue received in said slit; two legs respectively connected to said three-way connection members.