Patent ID: 7597635
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. An oversized basketball rim device for retrofitting onto an existing standard sized basketball rim attached to a backboard of a raised goal which increases an opportunity of making a basket when shooting a basketball, said oversized basketball rim device comprising: (a) a circular upper rim member having a diameter greater than a diameter of such standard sized basketball rim; (b) a frusto conical shaped band member having an upper portion connected to said upper rim member for directing a basketball from in said upper rim member down through such standard sized basketball rim, said frusto-conical shaped band member having a solid wall portion disposed between said upper portion and a lower portion thereof; (c) a circular lower rim member having substantially a same diameter as such diameter of such standard sized basketball rim and connected to said lower portion of said frusto conical shaped band member for seating against such standard sized basketball rim; and (d) an attachment means affixed to said lower rim member for attaching said oversized basketball rim device to such standard sized basketball rim.