Variable flexible stringer, bodyboard and method
AssigneeEarth & Ocean Sports, Inc.
InventorScott Pekar
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Abstract
A variable flexible bodyboard, which includes therein, at least one variable, flexible stringer rod. The stringer rod composed of a material to impart stiffness to the body of the bodyboard, such as a fiber-resin material, and a material to impart flexibility to the front nose area of the bodyboard, such as a polyethylene material.
Claims24
A variable flexible bodyboard which comprises:
- a) a lightweight, generally elongated, foam core material having a top skin layer and a bottom skin layer, with a front nose end and a rear tail end;
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- b) an elongated stringer element having a one end and an other end, and generally longitudinally arranged within the foam core material and extending substantially from the tail end toward the front end;
- the stringer element varying in flexibility along the length from the one end to the other end, a substantial first length portion of the stringer extending at the one end from the tail end of the foam core material toward the nose end and adapted to increase the stiffness of the foam core material;
- and a second length portion toward the nose end of the foam core material, having greater flexibility than the first portion, and adapted to increase flexibility of the nose end of the bodyboard by a rider;
- and wherein the first length portion comprises a resin-impregnated fiber material, and the second length material comprises a polymeric olefin material.
A stringer element adapted for insertion and use in the foam core material of a bodyboard, which stringer element comprises an elongated rod element having a one end and an other end and a selected length and composed of a first length portion which comprises a majority of the length of the rod element and comprises a fiber-resin material to impart selected stiffness to a bodyboard;
- and a second length portion which comprises, at the one end of the rod element, a polymeric material to support flexibility to a nose section of the bodyboard, which material has greater flexibility than the first length portion.
A variable flexible bodyboard which comprises:
- a) a lightweight, generally elongated, foam core material having a top skin layer and a bottom skin layer with a front nose end and a rear tail end;
- b) an elongated stringer element having a one end and an other end, and composed of at least one stiffener material, of a defined length, to impart stiffness to the bodyboard, and at least one flexible material, of a defined length, to impart flexibility to the bodyboard, the stiffener material and flexible material composed of different materials, the stringer element positioned and secured within the foam core material of the bodyboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.