Bowling ball thumb and finger insert
OwnerRodger Bellinventor
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Abstract
A thumb and finger insert for a bowling ball including a barrel having a thumb or finger hole for insertion of either a human thumb or finger and capable of facilitating a properly timed release of a bowling ball and of adapting to digit swelling during play. The barrel has a complete annular portion and a partial annular portion, the latter forming a gap into which a flexible tab is disposed. The flexible tab is connected to the partial annular portion with one or more flexible members and includes an underside that engages the dorsal side of a user's thumb or finger, wherein the flexible members will flex so as to allow said flexible tab to flex outwardly when pressure is exerted against the underside of the flexible tab.
Claims20
A thumb and finger insert for a bowling ball, comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel having a thumb hole adapted to accommodate a human thumb or finger and having an interior end, an exterior end, and an interior wall, said barrel having a complete annular portion proximate and extending to said interior end and a partial annular portion extending from said complete annular portion to said exterior end, said partial annular portion including spaced apart terminal walls defining a gap;
- a flexible tab interposed in said gap between and spaced apart from said terminal walls of said partial annular portion, said flexible tab having an upper surface recessed from upper edges of said terminal walls and an underside that engages a user's thumb when a user inserts his or her thumb into the thumb insert;
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- at least one flexible connection element connecting said flexible tab to either or both of said partial annular portion and said complete annular portion of said cylindrical barrel;
- wherein said flexible element will flex so as to allow said flexible tab to flex outwardly when pressure is exerted against said underside.
A thumb and finger insert for a bowling ball, comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel having an interior end and an exterior end and a gap extending longitudinally from said exterior end to a point short of said interior end, said gap having terminal walls;
- a flexible tab disposed in said gap and connected to said terminal walls with at least one flexible member so as to allow said flexible tab to flex upwardly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.