Tis the season to get into the Christmas spirit, and what better
way to do this than to look at Christmas themed patents.
After a long and hot summer, many will be wondering if it will
snow this Christmas. If it does snow then you may be excited to
learn that an inventor has come up with a device to help make and
throw snowballs.
Granted US patent US 8302585 describes a combined snowball
forming and launching device. The patent states "as anyone who
has participated in a snowball fight knows, it takes time to gather
and form snowballs, and the speed at which one can throw is limited
by the length of one's arm" and there "exists a need
in the art for a device that facilitates the forming and throwing
of snowballs". The inventors have overcome these problems by
combining a mechanism which compacts snow to form a snowball and
has an elongated section which helps gather and throw the snow;
thereby helping a user to improve their snowball game.
