Baseball bat batting practice sleeve
OwnerDaniel F. Greaneyinventor
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Abstract
A practice sleeve used in connection with baseball and similar bats which prevents a ball struck by the bat from going any significant distance and improves the users swing. The sleeve is fabricated from a single sheet of rectangular plastic material having a pair of concentric notches cut into one surface the entire length of the plastic sheet. These notches are spaced approximately 1/2 inch apart and are spaced an equal distance from the longitudinal center line of the sheet. The plastic is then folded about the notches to form a substantially V-shaped troughed sleeve having a 1/2 inch blunted ball hitting surface. The sleeve is then provided with shock cords, transversly attached thereto, for holding the sleeve on a bat.
Claims3
An improved practice sleeve in combination with a conventional baseball bat comprising,
- a strip of yieldable plastic having two concentric slots running the entire length of the strip, said slots having a preselected debth and separated approximate 1/2 inch apart (a preselected distance centrally located) whereby the strip can be bent about the slots forming a three sided substantially V-shaped trough, the area between said slots defined by said 1/2 inch separation being a blunted tip of said sleeve;
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- a plurality of shock cords, each of said cords being transversely attached across the trough opening of said sleeve at a point therealong for removably securing said sleeve to said bat, a portion of the large end of said bat being enclosed between the walls and shock cords;
- one of said shock cords having one of its ends permanently affixed to said sleeve and its other end being extended around said bat before being removably attached to said sleeve at a point remote from said one affixed end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.