Offset lacrosse head
AssigneeStx, LLC
InventorsJoel Price, Richard Tucker
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Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides an offset lacrosse head comprising a shaft, a collar, and a head. The collar defines an opening that receives the shaft. The head has a juncture. The juncture defines a socket that receives the collar, and the socket and the shaft are non-concentric. In a further aspect of this embodiment, the shaft has a shaft axis, the opening of the collar has an opening axis, the socket of the juncture has a socket axis, and at least one of the socket axis, the opening axis, and the shaft axis is offset, when viewed from a side elevation of the lacrosse stick facing an exterior of a sidewall of the head.
Claims33
A lacrosse stick comprising:
- a shaft;
- a collar defining an opening that receives the shaft;
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- a head having a juncture, the juncture defining a socket that receives the collar, and the socket and the shaft being non-concentric.
A collar for connecting a lacrosse stick shaft to a lacrosse stick head, the collar comprising:
- a first end face defining a first end of an opening adapted to receive an end of the shaft;
- a second end face having a wall adapted to restrain the end of the shaft within the opening;
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- a longitudinal body, the longitudinal body having an exterior longitudinal surface defining an exterior collar axis,
- the opening extending from the first end face to the wall of the second end face and defining an opening axis, and
- the exterior collar axis being offset from the opening axis, when viewed from a side elevation view according to which the collar connects the shaft to the head, the side elevation view facing an exterior of a sidewall of the head.
A lacrosse stick head comprising:
- a frame;
- and
- a juncture attached to the frame, the juncture having an exterior longitudinal surface that defines a first axis, the juncture having a socket that defines a second axis, and the second axis being offset from the first axis, when viewed from a side elevation of the head facing an exterior of a sidewall of the head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.