Musical instrument mallet and method of making the same
AssigneeJ. D. Calato Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorJoseph S. Calato
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Abstract
A musical instrument mallet includes an improved arrangement by which the mallet playing head is attached to the mallet shaft. The mallet includes a shaft having handle and head portions, an apertured playing head, and a sleeve with flanges at opposite ends. The sleeve is fixedly attached to the head portion of the shaft and the playing head is tightly retained upon the sleeve between the end flanges. Steps included in making the mallet are forming one sleeve flange, placing the sleeve over the handle head portion, fixing the sleeve to the head portion, placing the playing head over the sleeve and forming the second flange to retain the playing head firmly on the sleeve and handle.
Claims16
A musical instrument mallet comprising:
- a shaft having a handle portion and a head portion including an end section;
- an elongated deformable thin-walled sleeve closely accepted upon said end section of said shaft head portion, provided with anchor means protruding from said sleeve into said head portion end section and which anchor said sleeve directly to said end section, and having a first flange at one longitudinal end of said sleeve and a second flange at the other longitudinal end of said sleeve, said flanges extending generally away from the longitudinal axis of said sleeve;
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- a playing head closely accepted about said sleeve so as to cover said anchor means and held thereabout between said flanges of said sleeve, said flanges being in compressive engagement with the opposite sides of said playing head whereby said playing head is tightly held upon said shaft head portion between said flanges.
A musical instrument mallet comprising:
- a playing head having a longitudinal opening;
- an elongated deformable thin-walled sleeve being closely received endwise through said playing head opening and formed to include two flanges between which said playing head is held firmly upon said sleeve, each flange being located at a longitudinal end of said sleeve opposite the other flange and in compressive engagement with said playing head;
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- a shaft including a handle portion and a head portion, said head portion including a shoulder and an end section extending from the shoulder, said end section being closely received within said sleeve and fixedly attached thereto, said sleeve being positioned upon said end section so that one of the longitudinal ends of said sleeve abuts said shoulder and provided with anchor means covered by said playing head and protruding from said sleeve into said end section for fixedly attaching said sleeve directly to said end section.
A method of making a musical instrument mallet comprising the steps of:
- forming a shaft having a handle portion and a head portion, said head portion defining a shoulder and an extended end section;
- providing an elongated thin-walled sleeve of such shape to be closely accepted over said end section of said head portion;
- forming an end portion of said sleeve into a first flange extending generally away from the longitudinal axis of said sleeve;
- placing said sleeve over said end section;
- fixedly attaching said sleeve to said end section;
- providing a playing head having a central through-opening of such size to be closely accepted over said sleeve;
- placing said playing head over said sleeve;
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- forming an end portion of said sleeve at the end opposite said first flange into a second flange extending generally away from the longitudinal axis of the sleeve whereby said playing head is firmly retained on said sleeve between said first and second flanges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.