Patents by Inventor Vernon H. Newman

Vernon H. Newman 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: 4948141
    Abstract: A golf-practice facility having a number of arenas arranged fan-wise or radially from a common amenities or administrative building whereby access is gained to tee-off positions at the near inner ends of the respective arenas. Each arena is an off-ground net cage. At the far end a vertical target is provided to intercept in full flight balls driven from the tee, the height of the target being variable and a range or score indication being made depending on the height of impact on the target. The floor of the cage is inclined and/or valleyed to cause balls dropping to the floor to roll back to the player at the tee-off end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Inventor: Vernon H. Newman
  • Patent number: 4693472
    Abstract: This invention provides a rebound net, for use in practising tennis, cricket, baseball and/or other games, having a surrounding frame and a net capable of being mounted in the frame, the net being made of a tough, low-extensible material such as nylon with the threads of the net fastened together at their intersections, and a number of attachment clips for fastening said net to the frame, when the attachment clips are arranged around the frame, in such manner as to hold the net under tension sufficient to provide at least 80% rebound in a tennis ball when dropped upon a mid-portion of the net in horizontal position. The net is arranged so that the threads thereof, when the net is held in the frame under tension, extend from the bottom of the frame upwardly on opposite sides of a vertical center line at equal angularity to that center line. That is to say, for a net with a square mesh the diagonals of the mesh extend horizontally and vertically when the frame is in an upright operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Inventors: Vernon H. Newman, Roland Becker