Hockey blade weight member

• US 5,484,146 A
• Filed: 02/21/1995
• Issued: 01/16/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mark A. Loschiavo
• Original Assignee: Mark A. Loschiavo
• Inventors: Loschiavo, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiu, Raleigh W.
• Application Number:
  US08/391,362
• Time in Patent Office: 329 Days
• Field of Search: 273/67 R, 273/67 A, 273/67 DB, 273/194 A, 273/194 B
• US Class Current: 473/437
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/22 Field 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 60/24 Weighted handles
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0024 for hockey
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3638 Normal golf clubs with directly attached weights

Abstract

The hockey blade weight member of the invention employs a snap-on member having a weight portion arranged for contiguous communication with a rear surface of a hockey blade and a forward clamping portion to engage a forward wall of the hockey blade, wherein an alternative configuration of the invention further employs a flange member arranged to extend from the weight portion of the weight member along the handle to enhance securement of the weight member to the hockey stick.

Claims

1. A hockey blade weight member arranged for attachment to a hockey stick, having a hockey blade and a handle extending from the hockey blade, and wherein the weight member comprises,

a flange member, the flange member having a flange front wall spaced from a flange rear wall, and the flange member having a first side spaced from a second side, with at least one U-shaped spring clamp member extending from the first side, the spring member having a gap oriented between the flange member and the flange front wall to receive the hockey blade therewithin.

2. A weight member as set forth in claim 1 wherein the flange member includes a first leg having the at least one U-shaped spring clamp member extending therefrom, with a flange second leg extending from the flange first leg, the flange first leg and the flange second leg integrally secured relative to one another and joined at an oblique orientation relative to one another, with the flange second leg arranged for extension along the hockey stick handle, and the flange second leg having a distal end spaced from the flange first leg, and the distal end having a generally C-shaped clamp member of resilient construction arranged to receive the hockey handle therewithin.

3. A weight member as set forth in claim 2 wherein said at least one said U-shaped spring clamp member includes a first flange extending from the flange first side, and a clamp member second flange obliquely and integrally secured to the clamp member first flange and a clamp member third flange extending obliquely and integrally to the clamp member second flange, with the clamp member third flange arranged in a facing spring-biased relationship relative to the clamp member first flange and to the flange second leg.

4. A weight member as set forth in claim 3 including a second U-shaped spring clamp member extending from the flange first side.