US 5,341,715 AGranted

Guitar pick with stepped ledge finger grip

OwnerRaymond R. Hucekinventor

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Abstract

A pick for a guitar or other string instrument comprises a planar tear shaped pick body of relatively rigid thermoplastic or other similar material having a tapered string contact end and an opposite rounded finger grasp end. The finger grasp end has diagonally extending raised ledges or walls projecting outwardly from each oppositely facing surface of the pick body at acute angles to the longitudinal axis of the pick body at the finger grasp end, such ledges or walls having diagonally extending outer edges, and raised surfaces extending laterally from the respective outer edges of the outwardly projecting ledges or walls to terminate at the respective nearest side edges of the pick body, the raised surfaces lying in planes which are spaced apart outwardly from the respective primary and oppositely facing planar surfaces of the pick body. Additional raised ledges or walls and raised surfaces extending laterally therefrom to the respective nearest side edge of the pick body can be provided which project outwardly from respective ones of the first mentioned raised surfaces on diagonal lines which are parallel to respective ones of the first mentioned diagonally extending ledges or walls and spaced apart therefrom in the direction toward the respective nearest side edges of the pick body. The raised ledges or walls and raised surfaces provide an improved finger grasp construction for a string instrument pick.

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Dependent claims

A pick for a string instrument, comprising a pick body having a tapered first end and an oppositely located rounded second end, a longitudinal axis extending from said first end to said second end, said tapered first end having an outermost point, said rounded second end having a mid-point, said outermost point of said first end being axially aligned with said mid-point of said second end on the longitudinal axis of said pick body, a first pick surface of said pick body facing outwardly in one direction, a second pick surface of said pick body facing outwardly in an opposite direction, a first side and a second opposite side, a first side edge of said pick body extending from said outermost point of said first end to said mid-point of said second end along said first side of said pick body, a second side edge of said pick body extending from said outermost point of said first end of said mid-point of said second end along said second opposite side of said pick body, first finger abutment means projecting outward from said first pick surface on a line extending from substantially said mid-point of said second end to a first intersecting point located on said first side edge between said outermost point of said first end and said mid-point of said second end, and second finger abutment means projecting outward from said second pick surface on a line extending from substantially said mid-point of said second end to a second intersecting point located on said second side edge between said outermost point of said first end and said mid-point of said second end.

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