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US 7,682,269 B1Granted
Lacrosse head with vertical pocket attachments
AssigneeRawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc.
InventorPaul Gait
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Abstract
A lacrosse head comprising a frame, a plurality of vertical attachment projections, and a pocket. The frame includes a pair of sidewalls with each sidewall including an exterior surface and an interior surface. The vertical attachment projections are spaced along each sidewall wherein each vertical attachment projection is vertically attached to the interior surface of one of the sidewalls. The pocket is then attached to the vertical attachment projections.
Claims18
A lacrosse head comprising:
- a frame including a pair of side walls, each side wall including an exterior surface and an interior surface;
- a plurality of vertical attachment projections spaced along each side wall, each vertical attachment projection vertically attached to the interior surface of one of the side walls;
- a pocket attached to the vertical attachment projections wherein each side wall pocket opening is positioned to expose one of the vertical attachment projections to the exterior surface of one of the side walls.
A lacrosse head comprising:
- a throat for receiving a handle;
- a scoop distal from the throat;
- a first and second side walls extending from the throat to the scoop, each side wall having an inside, an outside, a length, an upper portion, and a lower portion;
- and
- a first vertical tab positioned vertically to intersect the length of one of the side walls and attached to the interior surface of the lower portion of the first side wall wherein the first vertical tab defining a tab opening having a center, the center of the tab opening substantially perpendicular to the first vertical tab.
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A lacrosse head comprising:
- a throat for receiving a handle;
- a scoop distal from the throat;
- a first and second side walls extending from the throat to the scoop, each side wall having an inside, an outside, a length, an upper portion, and a lower portion;
- a first vertical tab attached to the interior surface of the lower portion of the first side wall and positioned vertically to intersect the length of the first side wall;
- a second vertical tab attached to the interior surface of the lower portion of the second side wall substantially opposite the first vertical tab and positioned vertically to intersect the length of the second side wall;
- each vertical tab including a vertical length and defining a tab opening having a center, the center of the tab opening substantially perpendicular to the vertical length;
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- a pocket including a plurality of cross pieces, the at least one of the cross pieces traverses one of the tab opening to attach the pocket to one of the side walls wherein the first side wall further including a first side wall pocket opening and the second side wall further including a second side wall pocket opening, each side wall pocket opening positioned on one of the side walls and aligned with one of the vertical tabs to expose the center of that vertical tab to the outside of that side wall.
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A lacrosse head comprising:
- a throat for receiving a handle;
- a scoop distal from the throat;
- a first and second side walls extending from the throat to the scoop, each side wall having an inside, an outside, a length, an upper portion, a lower portion, and a side wall pocket opening, a minimum side wall separation distance separating the first and second side walls;
- a first vertical tab attached to the interior surface of the lower portion of the first side wall and positioned vertically to intersect the length of the first side wall;
- a second vertical tab attached to the interior surface of the lower portion of the second side wall substantially opposite the first vertical tab and positioned vertically to intersect the length of the second side wall;
- each vertical tab including a vertical length and defining a tab opening having a center, the center of the tab opening substantially perpendicular to the vertical length, a vertical tab separation distance separating the first and second tabs;
- a pocket including a plurality of cross pieces, the at least one of the cross pieces traverses one of the tab opening to attach the pocket to one of the side walls;
- each side wall pocket opening positioned on one of the side walls and aligned with one of the vertical tabs to expose the center of that vertical tab to the outside of that side wall;
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- wherein the vertical tab separation distance is greater than the minimum side wall separation distance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.