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US 7,462,118 B2Granted
Back and edge weighted field hockey sticks
AssigneeStx, LLC
InventorsRichard B. C. Tucker, Sr., Katelyn M. Bedwell, Joanna Kotula
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Abstract
A field hockey stick including a handle, a throat adjoining the handle, and a head adjoining the throat opposite to the handle. At least one portion of one of the handle, the throat, and the head is hollow. The at least one portion has variable wall thicknesses that enhance the performance and feel of the stick, e.g., providing back weighting and/or edge weighting.
Claims12
A field hockey stick comprising:
- a handle;
- a throat adjoining the handle, the throat defining a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a head adjoining the throat opposite to the handle, the head curving away from the longitudinal axis and back toward the handle to form a toe, the head beginning at a point where the head first curves away from the longitudinal axis,
- wherein the throat comprises a playing side having a flat exterior face, a non-playing side having a round exterior face, and two edges between the playing side and the non-playing side,
- wherein the throat is hollow,
- wherein in a cross section of the throat taken perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, the playing side and the non-playing side have a first wall thickness that is substantially constant and the two edges have a second wall thickness, the cross section increasing in thickness from the first wall thickness to the second wall thickness from the playing side to the two edges and from the non-playing side to the two edges, and
- wherein the second wall thickness is substantially greater than the first wall thickness to provide the field hockey stick with edge weighting.
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A field hockey stick comprising:
- a handle;
- a throat adjoining the handle, the throat defining a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a head adjoining the throat opposite to the handle, the head curving away from the longitudinal axis and back toward the handle to form a toe, the head beginning at a point where the head first curves away from the longitudinal axis,
- wherein the throat is hollow,
- wherein the throat comprises a playing side having a flat exterior face, a non-playing side having a round exterior face, and two edges between the playing side and the non-playing side,
- wherein in a cross section of the throat taken perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, the playing side and the two edges have a first wall thickness that is substantially constant and the non-playing side has a second varying wall thickness that increases from the first wall thickness starting at points proximate to the two edges to a maximum wall thickness at approximately a midpoint of the non-playing side, and
- wherein the maximum wall thickness is substantially greater than the first wall thickness to provide the field hockey stick with back weighting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.