Goalkeeper's hockey stick

• US 4,340,224 A
• Filed: 09/18/1980
• Issued: 07/20/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hilton S. Staats
• Original Assignee: Hilton S. Staats
• Inventors: Staats, Hilton S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US06/188,423
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 273/67 R, 273/67 A, 273/73 R, 273/73 C, 273/73 D, 273/76, 273/326, 273/167 J, 273/173, D21/210
• US Class Current: 473/563
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/24 Ice hockey
• 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 60/50 with through-holes A63B60/18 takes precedence; for stringing purposes A63B49/00

Abstract

A goalkeeper'"'"'s hockey stick has a woven or laced fabric section in the blade portion so as to absorb the force of a puck striking the blade area and thereby reduce rebound. The widened portion of the shaft may also be provided with a mesh construction.

Claims

1. A goalkeeper'"'"'s hockey stick comprising an elongated stick-like handle portion having a longitudinal axis, a flat shaft portion extending from a lower end of the handle portion and aligned with the longitudinal axis thereof, said flat shaft portion being wider than the handle portion and having opposed longitudinally-extending straight sides parallel to said longitudinal axis, and a flat blade portion extending from a lower end of and inclined to the flat shaft portion, said blade portion having parallel upper and lower straight edges extending from respective sides of the shaft portion, with the shaft portion and handle portion being inclined to the horizontal away from the blade portion when the upper and lower edges of the blade portion are horizontal, the shaft portion and the blade portion each having a continuous perimeter frame defining an open blade area and an open shaft area respectively, said blade area and said shaft area each being open to both sides of said hockey stick, and a resilient mesh formation in each area secured to the perimeter frame thereof and operable to absorb the force of a hockey puck striking the respective area.