U.S. Patent Number 12,421,754 – Net Securing System, Apparatus, And Methods
Every Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishes newly granted patents. This blog post is part of a weekly series in which I pick an interesting new patent that has Idaho connections and briefly describe it.
Inventors: Joshua Leland Frazier (Boise, ID), Justin Shook (Boise, ID)
Assignee: SOCCER PARK, LLC (Boise, ID)
Fields where people play sports often need a net around them to contain balls, frisbees, or other flying objects. An older way of securing the net to a wall involves “pinching portions of the net between wall portions,” which “creates weak points in the net, which over time may break.”
This patent describes an improved apparatus for securing a net to a wall in a way that prolongs the life of the net. The apparatus is a wall cap that has an upper cavity and a lower cavity.
The upper cavity holds a nylon rod intertwined with the net. The lower cavity sits on top of the wall. The wall cap has a gap large enough for the net to pass through, but too small for the rod. A cable wrapped both above and below the rod secures everything in place within the upper cavity.
This design distributes load forces that occur when a ball impacts the net, lengthening the life of the net. Game on!