Reinforced baseball bat and process for forming

Abstract

A reinforced baseball bat and method of forming including providing a pair of elongated billets, drilling a semi-circular cross sectional recess in a lengthwise direction from a butt end in and along each of the billets, providing an elongated rod having a length and diameter matching the semi-circular recesses, applying an adhesive to each of opposing faces of the billets and within the mating recesses, installing the elongated rod within the semi-circular recess of a selected billet and sandwiching the billets so that the rod seats within the semi-circular recess of the other selected billet. Additional steps should include clamping the billets to allow the adhesive to set turning the billet to form the bat shape in which the steel tube extends from the knob end to establish a composite one-piece interface, to resist shattering of the bat including detachment of the barrel end from the handle.

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