Patent ID: 7293776

Claim:
A temporary target for practicing aiming propelled sport projectiles, such as balls, pucks and other game projectiles from outside a conventional garage, comprising: a large, flexible sheet having an upper edge and a lower edge and disposed to substantially cover a conventional garage door opening having a conventional garage door of the type which is raised for opening and lowered for closing the garage door opening, while substantially not protruding inside the garage or requiring the use of space within the garage or displacement of garage contents; fasteners arranged along the upper edge of the sheet for temporarily connecting the upper edge portion of the sheet to the lower edge portion of a garage door when the door is arranged in lowered position; corresponding fasteners temporarily secured along the lower edge portion of the garage door in a way that does not require tools or penetration into the garage door; bag-like pockets secured along the lower edge portion of the sheet and being open upwardly for receiving weights; and a series of weights positioned within the bags for holding the sheet downwardly and maintaining it relatively taut when the sheet is deployed over the door opening; said weights being in the form of conventional plastic milk containers normally filled with water for providing the weight for holding the sheet downwardly, under the force of gravity; with target markings formed on the surface of the sheet; whereby the sheet may be deployed over the garage door opening by securing the upper edge of the sheet to the garage door lower edge portion when the door is lowered into closed position by inter-engaging the respective fasteners along the upper edge of the sheet and the lower edge portion of the garage door, and then raising the door into the door open position, and the target may be removed by lowering the door to collapse the sheet upon ground adjacent the garage door opening and disconnecting the fasteners.