Self contained sport ball inflation pump
CA 2406726 A1 · Owner: Sgg Patents Llc · Inventors: Touhey, Daniel P.; Stahl, Joseph E.; Feeney, Brian P.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An inflatable sport ball, such as a basketball a football, a soccer ball, a , volley ball or a playground ball is provided with a self-contained inflation mechanism for inflating or more likely adding pressure to the ball. The mechanism is a battery-operated, diaphragm pump which is inside of the ball with a switch which is operable from outside of the ball to pump ambient air into the ball.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 13, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 13, 2021.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 13, 2023.
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