Patent ID: 7121965

Claim:
Hockey goalframe apparatus, wherein: the apparatus is structurally suitable for use in the game of ice-hockey, on an ice-rink; the apparatus includes a goalframe, which includes a bottom-pipe; the apparatus includes a puck-deflector, which is so arranged in front of the bottom-pipe as to prevent the bottom-pipe from being directly struck by an incoming puck; the puck deflector includes an apron, which is as high, vertically, as the bottom pipe, and which lies in front of the bottom pipe, and is extensive enough, as to its dimensions and position, to prevent an incoming puck from striking the bottom-pipe; the apron includes a front-nose-piece; the front-nose-piece has a vertical height that extends from the ice surface to at least half-way up the vertical height of the bottom-pipe; in cross-sectional profile, the front-nose-piece has an angled upper-surface that is so angled that an incoming puck striking the angled upper-surface is directed upwards, and has an under-surface that lies in contact with the ice; the material of the front-nose-piece is a dead plastic material, which either is polyurethane, or has substantially the same characteristic quality of deadness, from the standpoint of its lack of resilient recovery after being deformed by an impact from a hockey puck, as polyurethane; in cross-sectional profile, the front-nose-piece, between its upper-surface and under-surface, has the form of a one-piece moulding of the said dead plastic material.