EP0031655A1 - Machine for kicking a ball such as a soccer ball - Google Patents

Machine for kicking a ball such as a soccer ball Download PDF

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EP0031655A1
EP0031655A1 EP80304424A EP80304424A EP0031655A1 EP 0031655 A1 EP0031655 A1 EP 0031655A1 EP 80304424 A EP80304424 A EP 80304424A EP 80304424 A EP80304424 A EP 80304424A EP 0031655 A1 EP0031655 A1 EP 0031655A1
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Alberto Mendez Ibarguen
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B69/00—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports
    • A63B69/40—Stationarily-arranged devices for projecting balls or other bodies
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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    • A63B69/002—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports for football

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  • the present invention relates to a device for soccer training designed to permit the use of highly efficient methods to perfect the practice of soccer and development of necessary skills by beginners as well as professionals. Observations of many soccer games, including world championships, have revealed that a most common problem is a lack of adequate control of the ball at the point of reception thereof,resulting in misplays, including those occurring within short range of the goal. Such misplays most often occur because a player cannot instinctively properly react to a particular ball flight trajectory in the absence of repetitive practice involving the same or similar conditions so as to perfect his technique to rapidly and instinctively react thereto in the most desirable manner.
  • the present invention which comprises a kicking machine composed of simple mechanisms.
  • Such kicking machine is capable of repetitively imparting a selected trajectory to a soccer ball so that a player can receive a ball having such selected trajectory as many times as he desires.
  • kicking machine affords a beginner, an apprentice, or a professional the opportunity to perfect the technique of controlling a ball because of the availability of a machine repetitively to impart selected trajectories to the ball. Consequently, the kicking machine of the present invention provides a highly valuable device for training soccer players.
  • This invention relates to a machine for repetitively kicking a ball, such as a soccer ball, with a selected trajectory.
  • the machine comprises a kicking unit and a ball support unit which may be integral with the kicker unit.
  • the kicker unit includes a continuously driven shaft or axle, a kicking bar adapted to be rotatably displaced through a predetermined arc and a clutch member for drivingly connecting said kicking bar to said continuously driven shaft.
  • the kicker unit includes an axle or shaft rotatably mounted on a base and provided with an eccentric section, a kicking bar connected to said axle and oscillating in response to rotation of said axle, a drive wheel freely rotatable on said axle, a driving block fixedly mounted on said axle, a brake, an extensible pin mounted on said driving block, and a rod selectively moveable from a first position where said rod engages a surface associated with said pin when said pin is located within a certain angular range about said axle and a second position where said rod does not engage said pin associated surface, said pin extensibly engaging said drive wheel to transmit rotation from said drive wheel to said axle and thereby oscillate said kicker bar except when said rod is in said first position and said pin is within said certain angular range, said brake frictionally contacting said eccentric section of said axle at least when said pin is within said certain angular range.
  • the kicker bar is selectively oscillated.
  • the ball support broadly includes a base, a frame carried by said base and selectively longitudinally positionable therealong, a carriage carried by said frame and selectively laterally positionable therealong, and a pedestal carried by said carriage and selectively vertically positionable thereon for receiving the ball.
  • the ball support permits three dimensional positioning of the ball relative to the kicker bar and thereby allows the kicker bar to kick the ball with different trajectories and to permit repetitive kicking of the ball with the same trajectory.
  • the machine for kicking balls broadly includes a kicker unit A and a ball support and positioning unit B.
  • the kicker unit includes. a generally rectilinear base or frame 1 made u p of perimetric frame members defining an upper horizontal platform 2 and a lower horizontal platform 3.
  • a rectilinear frame additionally includes vertical post members 4 at each corner, each having a base plate or shoe 5 by which the kicker unit may be secured to a floor.
  • An electric motor 6 that powers the kicker unit is supported on the lower platform 3.
  • Such motor 6 is not fixedly secured to the frame 1, but rather is selectively positionable by slidable mounting along two guides 7 with the location thereof being selectable in response to rotation of a regulator bolt 8.
  • the motor 6 has connected to its axle a scaled pulley 9 carrying_three or more grooves of differing diameter for receiving a "V" belt 10, which transmits the rotation of the motor axle with selectively different velocities to a large freely rotating drive wheel 11 mounted on the upper platform 2.
  • the scaled pulley 9 can be replaced by a common pulley, in which case the drive wheel 11 may have a plurality of grooves of differing diameter or the motor 6 preferably should be of variable speed character.
  • the drive wheel 11 is provided with an extending, radially disposed drive flange 12 on the inner side thereof, and the wheel 11 is mounted for free rotation on a horizontally disposed main axle 13
  • the main axle 13 is supported at one terminal end and inwardly of the other terminal end thereof by ball bearing mountings 14 secured to the upper platform 2 of the frame.
  • the main axle 13 is provided with a middle eccentric section 15 against which acts a pressure brake 16, the position of which is regulated by a regulator bolt 17.
  • the terminal end of the main axle 13 that extends beyond the upper platform 2 has a crank drive disc 18 attached thereto.
  • a second horizontal axle 20 supported at one terminal end and inwardly of the other terminal end thereof by a pair of fixed journal bearings 21.
  • the extending terminal end of the axle 20 extends beyond the upper platform 2 and carries a clamping member 22 for clamping a vertically positioned swing bar 23 intermediate its ends and which is adapted to be rotatably displaced about the' axis of the axle 20.
  • a joint cuff 24 On the upper end of the swing bar 23 is mounted a joint cuff 24 having a bifurcated extension providing a pivotal support for one terminal end of a connecting rod 25.
  • connecting rod 25 is pivotally connected to a bolt or pin 19 mounted adjacent to the periphery of the drive disc 18.
  • the disc 18, pin 19, connecting rod 25 and cuff 24 form a crank type drive operable to convert rotation of the disc 13 into reci.picatory rotative displacement of the swing bar 23 about the axis of the second axle 20.
  • the lower end of the swing bar 23 is provided with a clamp 27 for adjustably attaching a foot or kicking element 26 thereto.
  • a clamp 27 for adjustably attaching a foot or kicking element 26 thereto.
  • the distance from the clamp 22 to joint cuff 24 is approximately one-third the distance from the clamp 22 to the lowest part of the foot 26, thereby giving a larger tangential velocity to the foot 26 than to the upper end of the swing bar 23, which is driven by the connecting rod 25.
  • the main driving block 29 Fixedly mounted on the main axle 13 between the eccentric section 15 and the drive wheel 11 is a main driving block 29 as shown in Fig. 5, Fig. 6, and Fig. 8.
  • the main driving block 29 is provided with a peripheral circumferential channel 30 and a generally peripheral longitudinal channel 31 in which a sliding block 32 and a compression spring 33 are disposed.
  • the aforesaid drive flange 12 extending from the drive wheel 11, the sliding block 32 and the spring 33 form the primary elements of a manually controllable clutch for transmitting motions from the drive wheel 11 to the swing bar 23 through the drive disc 18 and connecting rod 25.
  • the spring 33 normally biases the sliding block 32 toward and into driving engagement with the drive flange 12 attached to the drive wheel 11, which engagement results in the transmission of rotation from the drive wheel 11 to the main axle 13.
  • the upper surface of the sliding block 32 is provided with a transverse slot, one wall of which defines a transverse section 34 and an inclined section 35.
  • the kicker unit also includes a horizontal third axle member 36 disposed generally parallel to and spaced from the main axle 13.
  • a lever arm 37 in the nature of an elongated lever member is rotatably attached to one end of the third axle 36 and is disposed perpendicularly thereto. At one end the lever arm'37 extends beyond the frame 1 and carries a handle member 38.
  • the other end of the lever arm 37 is shaped to provide an arcuate, bowed extension 39 having a tapered or beveled ti p 46 disposed in the peripheral annular channel 30 of the main driving block 29 and adapted to be displaceably introduced into the transverse slot of the sliding block 32 as shown in Fig. 6 and Fig. 7.
  • the lever arm extension 39 is normally biased so as to dispose the tapered tip 46 within the transverse slot by a spring 41 anchored in a support 42 fixed to the frame 1, with such spring 41 operative to press the extension 39 toward the main driving block 29.
  • the subject device includes a ball support and positioning unit for selectively positioning the ball to be kicked in the path of the foot 26 mounted at one dependent end of the swing bar 23.
  • a preferred ball support unit may be used independently of or mounted on the kicker unit.
  • the illustrated ball support unit includes a rectangular base frame 43 supported by four pointed or tapered stakes 44 for spearing into the ground. Slidably mounted on the base frame 43 is a second and smaller rectangular frame 45 with its path of slidable displacement being defined by means of guides 46.
  • the smaller frame 45 is displaced along the rectangular frame 43 by rotating a threaded rod 47 extending through a non-rotable nut 48 fixed to the smaller frame 45 and extending through a support bearing 49 in the rectangular frame 45.
  • the end of the rod 47 is provided with a disc 50 having a handle 51 eccentrically mounted thereon.
  • a cart 53 is slidably carried on a pair of guides 52 transversely mounted on and extending across the smaller frame 45.
  • the cart 53 may be displaced along the guides 52 in a direction perpendicular to the path of displacement of the frame 45 by rotating a second threaded rod 54 extending through a non-rotatable nut 55 fixed to the cart 53 and extending through a support bearing 56 in the smaller frame 45.
  • An end of the rod 54 is provided with a disc 57 having a handle 58 eccentrically mounted thereon.
  • a threaded bolt 59 Passing generally vertically through the cart 53 is a threaded bolt 59 having a disc connected about its upper end.
  • the disc carries three or more radial, symetrically disposed, upwardly extending rods 61 for receiving and supporting a ball such as a soccer ball the drawing showing four for illustrating purposes only.
  • the height of the ball relative to the rectangular frame 43 may be varied by rotating the disc, which in turn rotates the threaded bolt 59.
  • the ball should be properly positioned relative to the foot 26 of the kicker unit.
  • the rods 47, 54 should be rotated through the use of their associated discs 50, 57 and handles 51, 58.
  • the rod 47 effects longitudinally displacement of the smaller frame 45 over the rectangular frame 43
  • the other rod 54 effects transverse displacement of the cart 53 over the smaller frame 45.
  • vertical displacement of the ball may be effectuated by rotation of the threaded bolt 59. In this manner, the ball may be selectively positioned relative to the path of the foot 26 to vary the trajectory of the ball when kicked by the foot 26.
  • the kicker foot 26 is initially at rest due to the tapered tip 40 of the lower arm 37 being normally biased so as to be disposed in the peripheral annular channel 30 of the main driving block 29 and within the transverse slot of the sliding block 32 such that the tapered tip portion 40 operatively abuts the slot wall transverse section 34 and there operates to maintain the sliding block 32 in its retracted position and out of driving engagement with the drive flange 12 attached to the drive wheel 11.
  • the rotation of the motor 6, which is transmitted by the scaled pulley 9 and the belt 10 to the drive wheel 11, is not transmitted to the main axle 13.
  • the swing bar 23 will make one complete oscillation corresponding to a single kick of the foot 26.
  • Such single oscillation occurs because of the following sequence.
  • the spring 41 depresses the beveled tip 40 within the peripheral annular channel 30 such that when the main driving block 29 makes approximately one rotation, the tapered tip 40 contacts the inclined wall section 35 of the transverse slot in the sliding block 32, whereupon slightly further rotation of the main driving block 29 causes the tapered tip 40 to retract the sliding block 32 against the bias of the spring 33 and out of contact with the drive flange 12. Consequently, after one complete rotation of the main driving block 29, the drive wheel 11 becomes disengaged from the main driving block 29.
  • the machine may repeatedly displace the kicker foot 26 with a selected velocity, including foot direction, speed and angular arc, which, given a preselected and constant position of the ball relative to the kicker unit, permits the kicking of a ball repeatedly with the same trajectory.
  • the foot 26 may be clamped at various orientations to the swing bar 23 or may be loosely clamped thereto and allowed to gyrate.
  • the ball support may be attached to the kicker unit as an integral part thereof and also may be incapable of varying the ball position relative to the kicker unit. In this later instance, the kicker unit should be provided with means for nermitting both vertical and a horizontal position adjustment of the foot 26 or the swing bar 23.

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US5911214A (en) * 1998-03-16 1999-06-15 Andrews; Alan Soccer ball projecting apparatus
CN107789849A (zh) * 2017-09-09 2018-03-13 湖北阳超机电科技有限公司 一种花瓣抛撒装置
CN111840952A (zh) * 2020-08-24 2020-10-30 福建工程学院 轮式足球机器人
CN113856181A (zh) * 2021-06-30 2021-12-31 徐雪东 一种篮球训练用落球点多变且不定向的接球练习装置
CN114053676A (zh) * 2021-11-30 2022-02-18 安徽科技学院 一种篮球运动用适龄性篮下回球装置

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US5911214A (en) * 1998-03-16 1999-06-15 Andrews; Alan Soccer ball projecting apparatus
CN107789849A (zh) * 2017-09-09 2018-03-13 湖北阳超机电科技有限公司 一种花瓣抛撒装置
CN111840952A (zh) * 2020-08-24 2020-10-30 福建工程学院 轮式足球机器人
CN113856181A (zh) * 2021-06-30 2021-12-31 徐雪东 一种篮球训练用落球点多变且不定向的接球练习装置
CN113856181B (zh) * 2021-06-30 2023-01-24 重庆智能机器人研究院 一种篮球训练用落球点多变且不定向的接球练习装置
CN114053676A (zh) * 2021-11-30 2022-02-18 安徽科技学院 一种篮球运动用适龄性篮下回球装置
CN114053676B (zh) * 2021-11-30 2022-08-26 安徽科技学院 一种篮球运动用适龄性篮下回球装置

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