Footbag Patents / Footbag History

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 06 Jul 2010 20:50

I stumbled upon the original patent documents for a "Game Footbag",
invented by Mr. Stalberger.

Interestingly, the first invention that John Stalberger filed with the United
States Patent and Trademark Office was not a bag, but rather some sort
of disc:

Game Footbag (1974)

3 years later, in 1977, Stalberger filed the invention that was later known as the "Hacky
Sack", the classic two-panel dogbone pattern footbag:

Game Footbag (1977)

I really dig Fig. 8 in the Drawings.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » 14 Jul 2010 04:47

That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. Yeah Figure 8 is totally badass

Ramen God · Post by **Ramen God** » 15 Jul 2010 05:11

Whoa!

Ramen God · Post by **Ramen God** » 15 Jul 2010 05:12

Is that the pattern for the original footbag?

will_T · Post by **will_T** » 23 Jul 2010 12:09

love the abstract. next time someone asks you what footbag is, you should say "the cover consists of two dogbone-shaped pieces of flexible material joined at their peripheries so as to form a collapsible ball. the fluid material includes a large plurality of small polyethylene particles having low resilience."

calling a bunch of poly pellets a 'large plurality' cracks me up