HOCKEY STICK EXTENDER

• US 20170319924A1
• Filed: 05/06/2016
• Published: 11/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Highwater Genpar Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Highwater Genpar Ltd.
• Inventors: NALBANDIAN, Ara
• Application Number:
  US15/148,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20170319924A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 59/70 with bent or angled lower parts for hitting a ball on the ground, on an ice-covered surface, or in the air, e.g. for hockey or hurling
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/42 Devices for measuring, verifying, correcting or customising the inherent characteristics of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like, e.g. measuring the maximum torque a batting shaft can withstand

Abstract

The hockey stick extender device was invented to address the problems of too short goalie sticks. A stick being “too short” means that the point where the stick broadens out is too low on the shaft. The extender is a cap with a hole or tunnel pierced therethrough. The shaft of the hockey stick is passed through the extender, and the extender is lowered on the shaft until it lies on the part of the stick where the stick widens. The effect of the extender is to raise the point where the goalie will grasp the stick higher on the shaft of the stick, or equivalently the combined stick and extender raises the point where the shaft of the combined stick and extender widens.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a cap;

two members attached at opposite ends of the cap extending away from the cap on a downwards angle; and

a hole pierced through the cap.

2. The device of claim 1 where the hole and members are adapted to fit securely on a goalie stick for hockey.

3. The device of claim 1 where the underside of said members has a groove.

4. The device of claim 1 where the underside of said members is made of a flexible plastic.

5. A device as claimed in claim 1, where the device has been cut into two pieces and the cut separates the hole into two parts.

6. The device of claim 1 where the hole has an inner surface, and the inner surface is made of a flexible plastic.

7. The device of claim 1, where the underside of said members has a groove, the underside of said members is made of a flexible plastic, and the hole has an inner surface, and the inner surface is made of a flexible plastic.

8. The device of claim 7 where the hole and members are adapted to fit securely on a goalie stick for hockey.

9. The device of claim 8, where the device has been cut into two pieces and the cut separates the hole into two parts.

10. The device of claim 6, where the flexible plastic is a thermoplastic elastomer.

11. The device of claim 7, where the flexible plastic is a thermoplastic elastomer.

12. The device of claim 9 where the hole and members are adapted to fit securely on a goalie stick for hockey.

13. The device of claim 10, where the device has been cut into two pieces and the cut separates the hole into two parts.