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US 12,102,883 B2Granted
Leather covered game ball
AssigneeRohm and Haas Company
InventorsJoseph Hoefler, Michaeleen L. Pacholski
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Abstract
A game ball including a leather cover secured about a solid core, wherein the leather cover includes an inner surface contacting the solid core and an opposing outer surface and wherein the game ball is characterized by including polyacrylate particles dispersed on but not encased about the outer surface of the leather cover.
Claims11
A game ball comprising a leather cover secured about a solid core, wherein the leather cover includes an inner surface contacting the solid core and an opposing outer surface,
- wherein the game ball is characterized by including polyacrylate particles dispersed on but not encased about the outer surface of the leather cover;
- wherein the outer surface of the leather cover is characterized by having a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra with peaks corresponding to leather and polyacrylate and wherein a peak intensity ratio between the polyacrylate and leather peaks is from 0.10 to 50.0.
A method of treating a game ball comprising the steps of:
- i) obtaining a game ball comprising a leather cover secured about a solid core, wherein the leather cover includes an inner surface contacting the solid core and an opposing outer surface, and
- ii) dispersing polyacrylate particles on the outer surface of the leather cover wherein the polyacrylate particles are dispersed the outer surface of the leather cover such that the leather cover has a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra with peaks corresponding to both leather and polyacrylate and wherein a peak intensity ratio between the polyacrylate and leather peaks is from 0.10 to 50.0.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.