US 12,134,016 B2
Portable basketball goal assembly
Jason Hall, Bowling Green, KY (US); Randy C Peterson, Victoria, MN (US); Louis Polk, Excelsior, MN (US); Louis Polk, IV, St. Louis Park, MN (US); Benjamin Simms, Bowling Green, KY (US); and Ronald White, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Assigned to Russell Brands, LLC, Bowling Green, KY (US)
Filed by Russell Brands, LLC, Bowling Green, KY (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/537,753.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/181,323, filed on Apr. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0347537 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 63/08 (2006.01); A63B 71/02 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 63/083 (2013.01) [A63B 2071/025 (2013.01); A63B 2071/026 (2013.01); A63B 2210/50 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A basketball backboard system transitionable between a storage state and an assembled state, comprising:
a base having a top surface, at least one indentation in the top surface, and two base platforms, each base platform for securing a leg to the base;
a vertical support assembly completely nestable within the at least one indentation such that the vertical support assembly is flush with or below the top surface of the base in the storage state, the vertical support assembly comprising
a hinge assembly,
two front legs, each having a lower end detachably securable to one of the base platforms in the assembled state and an upper end secured to and rotatable about the hinge assembly when the lower end is detached from the base,
two back legs, each having an upper end secured to the hinge assembly and a lower end secured to the base, and
a pole having a bottom end secured to the hinge assembly and a top end;
an extension arm securable to the top end of the pole, such that the extension arm extends above the top surface of the base when secured and when the vertical support assembly is completely nested within the at least one indentation of the base;
a backboard securable to the extension arm; and
a rim securable to the backboard.