Games using tangible projectile – Player held and powered – nonmechanical projector – per se,... – Club
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-25
2001-07-10
Graham, Mark S. (Department: 3711)
Games using tangible projectile
Player held and powered, nonmechanical projector, per se,...
Club
C473S560000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06257999
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to rackets for hitting game playing objects and, more particularly, is concerned with a racket for a ball to be hit and guided (advanced, or “stick-handled”) at the ground, comprising a shaft and a grid structure striking face extending angularly from said shaft.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In sports and pastime activities, a large number of rackets (also referred to as sticks, bats, clubs or similar) are known. Among these are a first group of rackets comprising shafts disposed as an extension of the longitudinal axis of a relatively large striking face (tennis, squash, badminton, table tennis “rackets” etc.) as well as a further group of rackets comprising a relatively small striking face extending angularly away from the shaft (e.g. ice hockey, street hockey, field hockey and golf “rackets”).
U.S Pat. No. 4,340,224 discloses a racket (stick) for ice hockey goalkeepers comprising a surface extending from the shaft in angular fashion and, connected thereto, a surface of the same width arranged in extension of the stick shaft. Both faces comprise a frame in which a net made of nylon or leather strings are tension mounted. The purpose of this net is to avoid or at least diminish rebounds of the puck from the stick. Otherwise, this stick is in no way different from the typical construction of an ice hockey goalkeeper's stick.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,720,410 relates to a ball hockey stick with a closed, dished striking face arranged angularly in relation to the shaft, whereby between said striking face and said shaft there is provided a striking face also angular in relation to the shaft and diverging in relation to the dished striking face. Hereby, the dished striking face serves for hitting a ball while the diverging striking face is meant for guiding (handling) a ball.
EP 0 74 339 A1 teaches a tennis racket deviating from the typical construction for tennis rackets. While its striking face and its shaft, each viewed on its own, correspond to the hitting face and the shaft of a typical tennis racket, the longitudinal axis of the essentially oval striking face is disposed angularly in relation to the shaft whereby the extended axis of the shaft runs through the center of the striking face.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is the object of the present invention to provide a completely new type of racket for a ball to be hit and guided on the ground.
This task is solved by means of a racket of the aforementioned kind in that its striking face essentially exhibits the shape and size of a typical tennis, squash, badminton or table tennis racket, its shaft joining at one lateral end of the striking face end, and the frame being reinforced in its bottom area.
At first glance, the features stated in the main claim for the racket according to the invention appear to be simplistic. It is a fact, however, that the above-mentioned groups of rackets were co-existing for decades where no one proposed a novelty as in this invention. The present invention breaks new ground, leaving old, well known paths. The result is a racket giving a completely new optical impression unifying one element of the aforementioned first group of rackets, namely the hitting face, with an element of the second group of rackets, namely the shaft disposed angularly in relation to the striking face in the plane of the striking face. The racket can be used for hitting and guiding (handling) a ball on the ground, and this can be used for playing on roller blades or roller skates or on foot as well as on the ice with skates.
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Flanagan John K.
Flanagan John R.
Flanagan & Flanagan
Graham Mark S.
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