Artificial feather for shuttlecock and shuttlecock

Abstract

A plurality of artificial feathers for a shuttlecock, when a hemispherical base portion of the shuttlecock is set on a lower side, the artificial feathers being embedded in an annular ring form on a peripheral border of a circular top end face of the base portion, the artificial feathers for a shuttlecock each including a vane portion in a thin film form, corresponding to a vane, the vane portion being provided with a reinforcement coating made of applied resin, and a rachis portion in a bar form extending integrally and continuously from an upper tip end to a lower distal end, corresponding to a rachis, to imitate a natural feather, the rachis portion being fixed to the vane portion at a vane support portion, having the vane support portion set as an area that is fixed to the vane portion along the tip end to a bottom end of the vane portion, and having a calamus portion set as an area that protrudes to a lower side of the vane portion and spans from a bottom end of the vane support portion to the distal end, to correspond to a calamus of the natural feather.

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