Shuttlecock

An improved plastic shuttlecock for use in a badminton game, comprising:

• a cork cap made of cork or multi-porous plastics;
• a cone-shaped skirt having the topmost end terminating in a collar tube;
• said cork cap being mounted onto said collar tube;
• said skirt further comprising:
• a plurality of stems divergely extending downwardly from said collar tube and evenly spaced from one another;
• a pair of differently sized reinforcement hoops spaced parallelly from each other and surrounding all said stems;
• said stems extending from said collar tube downwardly with the cross section thereof becoming gradually reduced;
• a plurality of parallel circular rings having different diameters extending downwardly from the lowerest reinforcement hoop to the bottom of said skirt;
• a wing portion being engaged with each stem extending from said lowerest reinforcement hoop to the bottom of said skirt having a right wing portion and a left wing portion divided by said stem, and terminating in a triangular wing tail;
• a partition area disposed between two said wing portions being divided by said circular rings and edges of said wing portions into rectangular holes;
• said left portion having a plurality of slanted parallel strands slantly extending in an angle from said stem to an edge of said left wing portion and intersecting with parallel circular rings to form a plurality of holes;
• said right wing portion having a plurality of slanted parallel strands slantly extending in an angle from said stem to an edge of said right wing portion and intersecting with parallel circular rings to form a plurality of holes which are larger than those in said left wing portion.