Methods for Mounting Footballs

摘要

Methods of attaching a football to a wall mount assemblies including connection with or without partially elastic augmentation bands. The augmentation bands interact with seams running from one pole to another pole on a ball. The ball may be a football. A football may be connected to the wall mount assembly via a lace engagement component that engages the laces on the football. The various wall mount assemblies provide an illusion that the ball is floating near the flat surface without support. A wall mount component connected to the flat surface by a set of fasteners is out of the line-of-sight of an observer as the wall mount component is behind the ball and the connection between the ball and the wall mount component is designed to be difficult to see.

主权项

1. A method of displaying a football using a wall mount assembly for suspending the football without a discernible support from a wall;
the football having:
a prolate spheroid shape with a long axis defining two poles on opposite ends of the football, the football having a set of laces comprising:a set of one or more longitudinal laces starting at an equator of the football, equidistant between the two poles, and extending along a longitude towards each of the two poles; andand a set of latitudinal laces, orthogonal to the longitudinal laces, that extend to either side of the set of longitudinal laces;the wall mount assembly comprising a wall mount component and a lace engagement component; the method comprising:
inserting into the wall, at least one connector to allow support of the wall mount assembly while allowing the wall mount assembly to be removed from the wall without removing the at least one connector;compressing the lace engagement component and engaging at least one distal end of the lace engagement component with at least one of the set of latitudinal laces in a manner that will require subsequent compression of the lace engagement component to release the engagement between the lace engagement component and the at least one of the set of latitudinal laces;engaging a wall mount engagement portion of the lace engagement component with the wall mount component; andengaging the wall mount component with the at least one connector to support the wall mount component and the engaged lace engagement component which is engaged with at least one latitudinal lace so that an observer with eyes positioned on either side of the equator of the football in a plane containing the two poles of the football and with the football between the observer and the wall mount component will not discern support for the football.