Patents Assigned to Porter Equipment Company
  • Basketball goal mounting and backboard reinforcing apparatus
    Patent number: 4895365
    Abstract: A basketball goal mounting system for transmitting stresses directly to a backboard frame which includes a vertical support member to resist bowing and canting of the frame unit. The mounting system utilizes spacer elements extending through the basketball goal support, a pair of support elements on each side of the vertical support member and a rear plate for a pair of upper bolts, as well as a pair of low bolts extending through the basketball goal support, the bottom backboard frame member and the rear plate. Provision is also made for mounting the system on a central support independent of the goal mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Porter Equipment Company
    Inventor: Edward A. Schroeder
  • Yieldable direct mount below the backboard goal system
    Patent number: 4739988
    Abstract: A goal having a horizontal bracket extending below and behind a backboard is yieldably mounted at two longitudinally spaced positions to a rearly extending brace attached to the backboard frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Porter Equipment Company
    Inventor: Edward A. Schroeder
  • Direct mount below the backboard goal system
    Patent number: 4650188
    Abstract: A goal having a horizontal bracket extending below and behind a backboard and mounted at two longitudinally spaced positions to a rearly extending brace attached to the backboard frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1987
    Assignee: Porter Equipment Company
    Inventor: Edward A. Schroeder