Bubble Emitting Basketball Goal Stand

Abstract

A basketball goal stand that utilizes a bubble generating device that is housed within an upper portion of a basketball backboard to emit soap bubbles from the upper perimeter of the backboard when a basketball goal is made. It utilizes a tractor fed belt that is passed through a soap mixture filled vessel, and a dynamic air source that dispels air bubbles from loaded soap bubble orifices on the tractor fed belt. Optionally, it may use a bubble venture nozzle to created the bubbles that are emitted fro the backboard. A second embodiment utilizes a floating platform for use in a pool that supports a toroidal ring that houses the bubble generating components. There is no backboard utilized in the pool version.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is as follows: 
     
         1 . A bubble emitting sports training apparatus comprising:
 an upper toroidal ring, said ring having a series of bubble orifices formed through a top surface thereof;   a lower floating base held in a spaced configuration from said upper toroidal ring by a series of supports affixed there between;   a soap bubble generating device housed within said lower floating base;   wherein said soap bubble generating device generates soap bubbles that pass through said series of bubble orifices in said upper toroidal ring.   
     
     
         2 . The bubble emitting sports training apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said upper toroidal is separable into a top half and a bottom half so as to form a watertight cavity there between these two halves wherein said soap bubble generating device is housed. 
     
     
         3 . The bubble emitting sports training apparatus of  claim 2  further comprising an activation arm extending from said upper toroidal ring, said activation arm generating a burst of bubbles when a basketball passes depresses said activation arm. 
     
     
         4 . A bubble emitting sports training apparatus comprising:
 an upper toroidal ring with an activation arm extending therefrom, said ring having a series of bubble orifices formed through a top surface thereof;   a lower floating base held in a spaced configuration from said upper toroidal ring by a series of supports affixed there between;   a power source;   a dynamic air source;   a vessel filled with a liquid soap mixture;   a soap pump;   a bubble generating venturi having a soap inlet port, an air inlet port and a venturi nozzle; and   a control circuit in operable connection with said power source;   wherein upon depression of said activation arm, said control circuit activates said soap pump to provide said soap mixture to said soap inlet port of said bubble generating venturi, and activates said dynamic air source to provide a stream of air to said air inlet port of said bubble generating venturi so as to provide a stream of bubbles that passes through said venturi nozzle and past said bubble orifices; and   wherein said control circuit, said power source, said bubble generating venturi, said vessel with sop mixture and said soap pump are housed within said toroidal ring.