Basketball Canvas Patent Print

Printed in the U.S.A. on canvas with archival ink 16 X 20 inch patent print Product Description Learn More Slam dunk your office, game room, and home with this fun basketball patent from 1928, beautifully printed on canvas with archival ink. It has been restored and digitally enhanced while maintaining the integrity of the original document. "Application filed March 5, 1928. Serial No. 259,040.As heretofore constructed, basket balls have been made with the panels tapering down to narrow points which, in the assembly, extend into the polar regions of the ball. leaving so little room at these points that the valve enclosing seam structures have to be placed in the equatorial portion of the ball. Such construction establishes an unbalanced condition when the ball is held in the hands at the poles as it usually is. These points, furthermore, weaken the polar regions, rendering them less able to stand the stresses to which they are subjected. Also, in the cutting of the hides, the po