Total control batting ball

• US 8,702,542 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2010
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Total Control Sports, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Pete Parenti
• Inventors: Parenti, Pete
• Primary Examiner(s): WONG, STEVEN B
• Application Number:
  US12/963,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20110312433A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,231 Days
• Field of Search: 473/594, 473/595, 473/577, 473/598, 473/610, 473/611
• US Class Current: 473/594
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2039/003 substantially hollow and pressureless
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2039/006 pressurised
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2069/0008 for batting
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/00 Measuring of physical parameters relating to sporting activity
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 39/04 Pricking-balls; Tools for blowing them up
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 41/00 Hollow inflatable balls
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 45/00 Apparatus or methods for manufacturing balls working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 65/06 Heavy throwing-balls , i.e. "medicine balls", shots, weights or stones for putting
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0002 for baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0015 for cricket
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3655 Balls, ball substitutes, or attachments on balls therefor

Abstract

The invention is for a weighted ball designed to be hit or struck where the ball has a resilient, flexible, nonburstable outer shell, a hollow inner chamber and a filler hole where a weighted filler material is inserted into the hollow inner chamber through the filler hole and where the air inside the hollow inner chamber that displaces the remaining space inside the hollow inner chamber and where the inside air pressure is equal to the outside air pressure, and where a hole plug seals the filler hole after filling the hollow inner chamber with the weighted filler material, and where a hole plug sealant is used to fill the vacant hole plug space and to reinforce and strengthen the hole plug.

Claims

1. A weighted ball for hitting comprising:

a resilient, flexible, nonburstable outer shell;

a hollow inner chamber;

a filler hole;

a weighted filler material inserted into said hollow inner chamber through said filler hole;

air inside said hollow inner chamber that displaces the remaining space inside said hollow inner chamber such that an inside air pressure equals an outside air pressure;

a hole plug to seal said filler hole after filling said hollow inner chamber with said weighted filler material;

a hole plug sealant to fill vacant hole plug space, to reinforce and strengthen said hole plug, and to permanently fill and seal said filler hole and said hole plug to prevent escape of said filler material and said air from said ball; and

whereby said hole plug sealant forms a portion of said outer cover of said ball.

2. The weighted ball of claim 1 where the durable outer shell is a PVC/non-phthalate material.

3. The weighted ball of claim 2 where the outer PVC/non-phthalate material is at least 2 millimeters thick.

4. The weighted ball of claim 3 where said weighted filler material contains at least 30% course filler material and at least 50% ferrous material.

5. The weighted ball of claim 4 where said course filler material is river sand.

6. The weighted ball of claim 1 where said weighted filler material is a synthetic material.

7. The weighed ball of claim 1 where the filler material further includes approximately 1% of an ultra fine powder.

8. The weighed ball of claim 1 where said ball is a softball or a baseball.

9. The weighted ball of claim 1 where said ball is a golf ball.

10. A weighted ball for hitting comprising:

a resilient, flexible, durable outer shell;

a hollow inner chamber;

a filler hole that includes a self-sealing, flexible end flap that is at rest in an initial, closed position;

a weighted filler material is inserted into said hollow inner chamber through said filler hole, pushing back said end flap, and where said end flap returns to said initial closed position after filling, thus sealing said weighted material inside of said ball;

air inside said hollow inner chamber displaces any remaining space inside said hollow inner chamber such that said inside air pressure equals an outside air pressure;

a sealing material inserted into said filler hole to fill any vacant space and to permanently seal and reinforce said filler hole and to prevent the escape of said filler material.

11. The weighted ball of claim 10 where the durable outer shell is a PVC/non-phthalate material.

12. The weighted ball of claim 11 where the durable outer shell is a PVC/non-phthalate material that is at least 2 millimeters thick.

13. The weighted ball of claim 10 where the weighted material contains at least 30% course filler material and at least 50% ferrous material.

14. The weighted ball of claim 13 where said course filler material is river sand.

15. The weighted ball of claim 10 where said weighted filler material is a synthetic material.

16. The weighted ball of claim 10 where the filler material includes approximately 1% of an ultra fine powder.