Patents by Inventor Herbert A. Plassmann

Herbert A. Plassmann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4145044
    Abstract: A preschool knock-down portable indoor basketball set comprising a sponge-rubber ball and a weighted vertically adjustable stand for a basket with a removable bounce-board.The weighted base of the stand has an annular socket for one end of a pair of telescopic tubes, adjustable in length by a pin through diametric holes in the tubes. The upper end of the inner telescopic tube has a cap and net ring member, which cap has an annular reinforced socket for the upper tube end, which ring has hidden hooks for suspending a frusto-conical string basket, and intermediate of the cap and ring, has a wedging slot in a vertical plane into which a trapezoidal notch on the lower edge of a bounce-board removably fits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Assignee: The Ohio Art Company
    Inventors: Lowell T. Wilson, Herbert A. Plassmann
  • Patent number: D276057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: The Ohio Art Company
    Inventor: Herbert A. Plassmann