Patent Application
20250153025
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The disclosure relates to baseball base devices and more particularly pertains to a new baseball base device for securing a baseball base on a baseball diamond. The device includes a rigid underbody and a pliable top attached to the rigid underbody and the rigid underbody has an anchor well and a plug recess. The device includes an anchor which is insertable into the anchor well and which extends into a hole in the ground to anchor the baseball base to the ground. The device includes a plug that is stored in the plug recess and which is insertable into the hole in the ground when the anchor is not extended into the hole to inhibit the hole from filling with debris.
The prior art relates to baseball base devices including a variety of baseball base devices which each at least includes a rigid underbody and an anchor that is insertable into an anchor well that is formed into the rigid underbody for securing the baseball base to the ground. In no instance does the prior art disclose a baseball base device that includes a rigid underbody that has an anchor well formed into the rigid underbody and a plug recess integrated into the rigid underbody and an anchor that is insertable into the anchor well for securing the baseball base to a hole in the ground. The plug is insertable into the hole in the ground when the anchor is not positioned in the hole to inhibit the hole from being filled with debris.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a baseball base that includes a rigid underbody and a pliable top attached to the rigid underbody. An anchor well is integrated into the rigid underbody and a plug recess is formed into the rigid underbody. An anchor is insertable into the anchor well in the rigid underbody which can be extended into a hole in the ground thereby anchoring the baseball base to the ground. A plug is positionable in the plug recess for storing the plug and the plug can be inserted into the hole in the ground to inhibit the hole in the ground from becoming filled with debris.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The plurality of interior walls 28 are oriented to criss cross each other such that the plurality of interior walls 28 defines a series a repeating triangular spaces 30 between the plurality of interior walls 28. The plurality of interior walls 28 includes a set of anchor interior walls 32 which are perpendicularly oriented with each other to define the anchor well 18 and the anchor well 18 is centrally located on the rigid underbody 14. The plurality of interior walls 28 including a first diagonal wall 34 and a second diagonal wall 36. The first diagonal wall 34 extends between a respective corner 35 of the anchor well 18 and a respective corner 37 of the perimeter wall 24 of the rigid underbody 14; the second diagonal wall 36 is perpendicularly oriented with the first diagonal wall 34. The first diagonal wall 34 is broken to define a first space 38 in the first diagonal wall 34 which is located closer to the anchor well 18 than the respective corner of the perimeter wall 24 of the rigid underbody 14. The second diagonal wall 36 is broken to define a second space 40 in the second diagonal wall 36 which is aligned with the first space 38 in the first diagonal wall 34 such that each of the first space 38 and the second space 40 defines the plug recess 20 in the rigid underbody 14.
The pliable top 16 has a lower wall 42, an upper wall 44 and an outer wall 46 extending between the lower wall 42 and the upper wall 44 and the outer wall 46 has a plurality of intersecting sides 48 such that the pliable top 16 has a rectangular shape. The lower wall 42 is bonded to the top wall 22 of the rigid underbody 14 such that the outer wall 46 of the pliable top 16 is aligned with the perimeter wall 24 of the rigid underbody 14. Additionally, the outer wall 46 curves inwardly at an intersection between the outer wall 46 and the upper wall 44. The pliable top 16 is filled with a resiliently compressible material 50, including but not being limited to rubber or silicone, to facilitate a baseball player 52 to comfortably step on the pliable top 16 during the game of baseball. Furthermore, the lower wall 42 and the upper wall 44 and the outer wall 46 are comprised of a resilient material, including but not being limited to leather or polyvinylchloride, to facilitate the pliable top 16 to resist being damaged by baseball shoes worn by the baseball player 52.
An anchor 54 is provided which is insertable into the anchor well 18 in the rigid underbody 14 and the anchor 54 can be extended into a hole 56 in the ground 58 thereby anchoring the baseball base 12 to the ground 58. The anchor 54 has a top end 60, a bottom end 62 and an exterior wall 64 extending between the top end 60 and the bottom end 62 and the exterior wall 64 has a plurality of intersecting sides 66 such that the anchor 54 has a rectangular shape. Each of the plurality of intersecting sides 66 of the exterior wall 64 abuts a respective one of the anchor interior walls 32 of the plurality of interior walls 28 of the rigid underbody 14 when the anchor 54 is inserted into the anchor well 18 having the anchor 54 extending downwardly from the rigid underbody 14.
A plug 68 is provided which is positionable in the plug recess 20 for storing the plug 68. The plug 68 is removable from the plug recess 20 when the baseball base 12 is not being employed thereby facilitating the plug 68 to be inserted into the hole 56 in the ground 58 thereby inhibiting the hole 56 in the ground 58 from becoming filled with debris. The plug 68 has a head 70 and a stem 72 extending away from a bottom end 74 of the head 70 thereby facilitating the stem 72 to extend into the hole 56 in the ground 58 having the bottom end 74 of the head 70 resting on the ground 58. The head 70 has an upper end 76 which is concavely arcuate with respect to the bottom end 62 such that the head 70 has a dome shape.
An outer surface 78 of the stem 72 frictionally engages each of a first terminal end 80 and a second terminal end 82 of the first diagonal wall 34 of the rigid underbody 14 when the plug 68 is inserted into the plug recess 20 for removably retaining the plug 68 in the plug recess 20. A distal end 84 of the stem 72 frictionally engages a first terminal end 86 of the second diagonal wall 36 of the rigid underbody 14 when the plug 68 is inserted into the plug recess 20 for retaining the plug 68 in the plug recess 20. Furthermore, the upper end 76 of the head 70 frictionally engages a second terminal end 88 of the second diagonal wall 36 when the plug 68 is inserted into the plug recess 20 for retaining the plug 68 in the plug recess 20.
In use, the anchor 54 is inserted into the anchor well 18 and the anchor 54 is extended into the hole 56 in the ground 58 the secure the baseball base 12 to the ground 58. In this way the baseball base 12 will remain stationary when the baseball player 52 steps upon the baseball base 12 during the game of baseball. Furthermore, the plug 68 is stored in the plug recess 20 when the baseball base 12 is anchored to the ground 58. The plug 68 is removed from the plug recess 20 and the stem 72 of the plug 68 is inserted into the hole 56 in the ground 58 when the anchor 54 is not extended into the hole 56. In this way the plug 68 inhibits the hole 56 from being filled with debris when the anchor 54 is not inserted into the hole 56.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
