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US 6,306,054 B1Granted
Football
Assigneeadidas International B.V.
InventorOtto Dobrounig
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a ball, in particular a football and a new method of producing a ball with a verre églomiséprint. The ball according to the invention has, in its outer skin (11), a syntactic material (50) which consists of a matrix material (52) into which essentially dimensionally stable, elastic blow-moulded parts (54) are mixed.
Claims4
A ball comprising:
- an inflatable bladder;
- a first backing layer enclosing the inflatable bladder;
- a middle layer enclosing the backing layer;
- an outer skin enclosing the middle layer, the outer skin comprising;
- a second backing layer;
- a resilient layer enclosing the second backing layer and including a syntactic material, the syntactic material including polymeric microspheres dispersed in a polymeric matrix;
- and,
- a substantially opaque layer enclosing the resilient layer.
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