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| Portable unisex urinal |
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| Combination portable children's toilet and toilet trainer |
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| Boy's urinal trainer for a toilet |
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| Potty |
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Training football
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Inventors: Page, Chris S.; Gaudio, Paul A.; Raynak, Geoffrey Charles; Kraeuter, Charles D.;
Assignee: Nike, Inc. (Beaverton, OR)
Primary Examiner: Banks; Derris H.
Assistant Examiner: Williams; Jamila
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
The invention is training football having a plurality of perceptive elements, including tactile elements and visual elements. The tactile elements are positioned on an outer surface of the football in locations that correspond with locations that contact the hand of an individual when properly throwing a football. Accordingly, the tactile elements provide the individual with tactile information regarding proper hand positioning. The tactile elements may also provide the individual with visual cues regarding proper hand positioning. The visual elements are positioned on end portions of the football that are visible to the individual following a throw of the football, thereby providing the individual with feedback concerning the quality of each football throw. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION The following discussion and accompanying figures disclose a training football 10 in accordance with the present invention.
The primary purpose of football 10 is to provide individuals with a training aid for learning or improving upon football throwing skills.
Football 10 may be structured to have characteristics, including shape, size, and weight, that are similar to the characteristics of a conventional football.
Accordingly, football 10 may have a relatively small size that is appropriate for children, or football 10 may have a standard size that is suitable for use by collegiate or professional football organizations, for example.
By configuring football 10 to have conventional characteristics, the individual may transition to a conventional football following training without having to modify the learned or improved skills to accommodate a conventional football.
Once training is complete, therefore, the transition from football 10 to a conventional football is more easily accomplished when football 10 has conventional characteristics.
Although football 10 is intended to be utilized as a training aid, the characteristics of football 10 are suitable for use during the game of football.
Football 10, as depicted in FIGS.
1-7, includes a shell having four panels 12a-12d that primarily form the exterior surface of football 10; four seams 14a-14d that join panels 12 to each other; and a plurality of laces 16 located along seam 14a.
Panels 12 each have a shape that may be generally described as an ellipse with pointed end portions.
When joined together by seams 14, panels 12 collectively form a volume with an oblong shape that may be mathematically characterized as a prolate spheroid.
Accordingly, panels 12 provide football 10 with an enlarged central portion 18 and two bluntly-pointed end portions 19 and 19' located on opposite sides of central portion 18.
Seams 14, which are generally separated by 90 degrees, define the edges of panels 12 and extend from end portion 19 to the opposite end portion 19'
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