Patent ID: 6264570
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A practice sports net consisting essentially of:a pair of vertically extending support poles comprising a plurality of articulating and interlocking segments, a top end of each of the poles having a net support comprising an upwardly extending threaded shank and a bottom end of each of the poles having a pole support, the pole segments being attached one to the other at interlocking mating ends provided on each segment, a first segment mating end having a reduced diameter relative an adjacent second segment end such that the first segment end can be inserted into the adjacent second mating segment end, the segments of each pole being permanently attached one to the other via a shock cord extending therethrough;a substantially rectangular net having a top, bottom and side edges, each of the side edges having a plurality of regularly spaced apart retaining sleeves attached at vertical intervals thereto, each of the retaining sleeves situated about a respective vertical midpoint along the length of each of the plurality of segments of the poles, the mating ends of the plurality of segments of the poles being exposed and disposed at the midpoint between each of the retaining sleeves in regular intervals wherein the mating ends of the plurality of segments of the poles are readily available for manipulation and assembly and disassembly, an upper corner at each side edge of the net permanently attached to the threaded shank of the net support through threaded fasteners and a lower corner of each side edge of the net fixedly attached to the pole proximate the pole support.