Batting aid and method of using same

• US 3,353,824 A
• Filed: 08/11/1964
• Issued: 11/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hamson J.R. Jack
• Original Assignee: Hamson J.R. Jack
• Inventors: HAMSON JR JACK
• Application Number:
  US04/388,785
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• US Class Current: 473/458
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0002 for baseball

Claims

1. A BATTING IMPROVING METHOD COMPRISING SECURING A FLAT RIGID STRIP TO THE BACK OF A HAND GRASPING A BASEBALL BAT ADJACENT THE KNOB THEREOF, AND SWINGING THE BAT WITH BOTH HANDS THROUGH AN ARC WHILE OBSERVING SAID STRIP AND MAINTAINING SAME AT ALL TIMES LEVEL TO THEREBY PRODUCE A LEVEL SWING.

2. A BATTING AID COMPRISING A THIN NARROW STRIP OF RIGID MATERIAL OF A WIDTH AND LENGTH MANY TIMES GREATER THAN ITS THICKNESS AND HAVING PAIR OF TRANSVERSELY ALIGNED NOTCHES EXTENDING INTO ITS OPPOSITE SIDE EDGES ADJACENT THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE STRIP, EACH OF SAID NOTCHES HAVING AT LEAST TWO GENERALLY TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING SPACED APART SIDE EDGES, AND A RUBBER BAND HAVING OPPOSITE END PORTIONS ENGAGED WITHIN SAID PAIRS OF NOTCHES AND MAINTAINED IN POSITION LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID STRIP BY SAID NOTCH EDGES, SAID RUBBER BAND EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY ACROSS A FIRST FACE OF SAID STRIP BETWEEN TRANSVERSELY OPPOSITE NOTCHES AND LONGITUDINALLY ACROSS A SECOND OPPOSED FACE OF SAID STRIP, SAID FIRST FACE BEING SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT AND DEVOID OF PROTUBERANCES BETWEEN THE ENDS OF SAID STRIP.