Sports ball and production method thereof

• US 5,542,662 A
• Filed: 12/14/1994
• Issued: 08/06/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tachikara U.S.A., Inc. (Tachikara Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Tachikara Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tanaka, Junichi, Kouzai, Keiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong, Steven B.
• Application Number:
  US08/355,707
• Time in Patent Office: 601 Days
• Field of Search: 273/58 BA, 273/58 R, 273/58 A, 273/58 B, 273/58 J, 273/58 H, 273/60 R, 273/60 B, 273/60 A, 273/65 R, 273/65 A, 273/65 B, 273/65 E, 273/65 EB , 273/65 EC, 273/65 ED
• US Class Current: 473/605
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 41/00 Hollow inflatable balls

Abstract

An inflatable tube 1 is inserted into a covering layer 2 formed of a thin rubber pouch which is made of a material which does not permit a solution of an adhesive agent, such as an aqueous solution of latex or a solution of an adhesive agent which contains rubber, used to attach a reinforced layer to the covering layer to pass through said covering layer, and an inorganic lubricant 3 disposed between the tube and the covering layer.

Claims

1. A sports ball comprising:

a hollow spherical shaped inflatable tube;

a rubber pouch around said inflatable tube forming a covering layer;

an inorganic lubricant between said tube and said covering layer;

a reinforced layer adhered on the outer surface of the covering layer with a solution of an adhesive agent wherein the covering layer is of a material which does not permit the solution of the adhesive agent to pass through the covering layer, and

an outer layer on the outer surface of said reinforced layer.

2. The sports ball of claim 1, wherein said rubber pouch contains said inorganic lubricant to dispose the lubricant between said tube and said covering layer.

3. The sports ball of claim 1, wherein the surface of said inflatable tube has the inorganic lubricant spread thereon to dispose said inorganic lubricant between said tube and said covering layer.

4. The sports ball of claim 1, wherein the surface of said inflatable tube has a suspension of said inorganic lubricant spread thereover to dispose said inorganic lubricant between said tube and said covering layer.

5. The sports ball of claim 1, wherein said reinforced layer comprises cloth pieces attached on the surface of said covering layer by the solution of the adhesive agent.

6. The sports ball of claim 2, wherein said reinforced layer comprises cloth pieces attached on the surface of said covering layer by the solution of the adhesive agent.

7. The sports ball of claim 3, wherein said reinforced layer comprises cloth pieces attached on the surface of said covering layer by the solution of the adhesive agent.

8. The sports ball of claim 4, wherein said reinforced layer comprises cloth pieces attached on the surface of said covering layer by the solution of the adhesive agent.

9. The sports ball of claim 1, wherein said reinforced layer is a string wound on the surface of said covering layer and is fixed on said surface by the solution of the adhesive agent.

10. The sports ball of claim 2, wherein said reinforced layer is a string wound on the surface of said covering layer and is fixed on said surface by the solution of the adhesive agent.

11. The sports ball of claim 3, wherein said reinforced layer is a string wound on the surface of said covering layer and is fixed on said surface by the solution of the adhesive agent.

12. The sports ball of claim 4, wherein said reinforced layer is a string wound on the surface of said covering layer and is fixed on said surface by the solution of the adhesive agent.