Anchor fitting for a hollow ball
AssigneeEuropean Sports Merchandising BV
InventorIan Gavin Gormley
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Abstract
An anchor fitting for a hollow ball includes a pair of shoulder defining bodies and an anchor body. These are located within the ball, the anchor body holding the shoulder defining bodies in place with respect to the ball so that with the anchor body having a cord, a tail, or a stem for a tail anchored thereto, the shoulder defining bodies will be effective for retaining the anchor fitting within the ball while playing a game which involves the ball being struck with a bat or racquet. The parts of the fitting are separately displaced through a hole in the wall of a ball, the anchor body permitting cooperation with an elongate element for facilitating the effective assembly of the fitting.
Claims17
An anchor fitting for a ball which includes, in its operative configuration with respect to a ball,
- two shoulder defining bodies of a substantially rigid material which each defines a hole therethrough and which, when operatively positioned with their respective holes in register with the hole in the ball, form two pairs of shoulder formations that extend substantially perpendicularly with respect to one another and substantially radially with respect to the hole in the ball and that abut the interior side of the wall forming the ball;
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- an anchor body of a substantially rigid material which defines an elongate shank portion and a head at one end of the shank portion, the shank portion operatively extending through the hole in each shoulder defining body and the hole in the ball and the head bearing against one shoulder defining body for holding the two shoulder defining bodies in position,
- and in which the anchor body defines for the assembly of the ball
- an engagement formation which permits engagement by an elongate assembly element in a configuration in which, with the assembly element passing through the respective holes in the shoulder defining bodies and with the shoulder defining bodies and the anchor body separately displaced through the hole in the ball, the assembly element may be pulled externally of the ball for locating the shoulder defining bodies and the anchor body in their operative configurations with respect to the ball;
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- an anchoring formation which permits anchoring a required one of a cord, a tail and a stem for a tail, thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.