Patent ID: 8663073
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A portable punching bag apparatus comprising: a support plate having an upper and a lower surface and being sized in width between side margins thereof to fit within the sides of a doorway; a punching bag supported on, and hanging downwardly from, a central area of said lower surface of said support plate; a doorway contact bar connected to said support plate, each end of said contact bar extending beyond one said side margin a distance greater than a width of the doorway; a doorway top molding engaging bar connected to said support plate and oriented parallel to said contact bar and being positioned above and parallel to said upper surface at a height at least equal to a width of a top molding of the doorway whereby said apparatus is supportable on the top molding when said engaging bar is positioned against an upper edge of the top molding; a clamp support connected to and extending above the upper surface of said support plate; an elongated clamp rod selectively movably held by said clamp support for tightening a distal end of said clamp rod against a wall surface above a top of the doorway on an opposite side of the wall from said engaging bar; whereby said apparatus is removably securable for use within and beneath the top of the doorway.