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US 7,815,531 B1Granted
Stringing channels for a lacrosse head
AssigneeRawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc.
InventorPaul Gait
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Abstract
A lacrosse head having stringing channels useful for improving a strung lacrosse head is disclosed.
Claims15
A lacrosse head with stringing channels comprising:
- a frame with a scoop attached distally to two sidewalls, the scoop having a top edge and a bottom edge;
- a throat attached proximally to the two sidewalls to create a pocket area with the frame and scoop having a front surface and a back surface;
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- stringing channels integrated into the scoop of the frame;
- each channel spanning from a location between the top edge of the front surface of the scoop and the bottom edge of the front surface of the scoop to the bottom edge of the front of the scoop;
- lace holes connecting the channels for laces to fit within to maintain runners connected at the scoop of the lacrosse head wherein said channels comprise a shaped recess having an L-shape or a T-shape.
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A lacrosse head comprising:
- a frame with a scoop attached distally to two sidewalls and a throat attached proximally to the two sidewalls to create a pocket area, with the scoop, sidewalls and throat having a front surface and a back surface;
- stringing channels integrated into the scoop of the frame comprising one or more recesses on the front surface of the scoop with at least some of the recesses having a recess width sized about at least for a width of a runner for a lacrosse pocket;
- each channel spanning from a location between the top edge of the front surface of the scoop and the bottom edge of the front surface of the scoop to the bottom edge of the front of the scoop;
- lace holes connecting the channels for laces to fit within to maintain runners connected at the scoop of the lacrosse head wherein said channels comprise a shaped recess having an L-shape or a T-shape.
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A lacrosse head comprising:
- a frame with a scoop attached distally to two sidewalls and a throat attached proximally to the two sidewalls to create a pocket area, with the scoop, sidewalls and throat having a front surface and a back surface, the scoop also having a top edge and a bottom edge;
- stringing channels integrated into the scoop of the frame comprising recesses with at least some of the recesses having a recess width sized about at least a width of a runner for a lacrosse pocket on the front surface of the scoop and
- recesses on the back surface of the scoop, the recesses located between the top edge of the back surface of the scoop and the bottom edge of the back surface of the scoop and oriented about parallel with the bottom edge of the back surface of the scoop for receiving string of the lacrosse pocket and wherein said channels comprise a shaped recess having an L-shape or a T-shape and wherein a string is oriented about parallel to the scoop within the recesses for attaching the lacrosse pocket to the frame.
A lacrosse head comprising:
- a frame with a scoop attached distally to two sidewalls and a throat attached proximally to the two sidewalls to create a pocket area, with the scoop, sidewalls and throat having a front and a back;
- stringing channels integrated into the scoop of the frame comprising recesses on the front surface of the scoop with at least some of the recesses having a recess width sized about at least the width of a runner for a lacrosse pocket;
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- recesses on the back surface of the scoop positioned to create openings within the scoop with the openings located in more than one of the recesses on the front of the scoop;
- the recesses on the back surface of the scoop having different shapes then the recesses on the front surface of the scoop wherein said channels comprise a shaped recess having a T-shape and wherein a string is oriented about parallel to the scoop within the recesses for attaching the lacrosse pocket to the frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.