Patent Application
20230241468
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The disclosure relates to hockey sticks and more particularly pertains to a new hockey stick for improving puck control and striking. The present invention discloses a hockey stick with a bifurcated blade having concavely arcuate forehand and backhand puck striking surfaces.
The prior art relates to hockey sticks. Prior art hockey sticks may comprise hockey sticks having bifurcated blades, and blades with protrusions on their backhand sides distal from their handles. While these prior art hockey sticks help to retain a puck in contact with the backhand sides of the blades, the backhand sides are still substantially planar surface. What is lacking in the prior art is a hockey stick comprising a hockey stick with a bifurcated blade having concavely arcuate forehand and backhand puck striking surfaces.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an elongate handle, which is configured to be grasped in hands of a user. A blade is engaged to and extends from a lower end of the elongate handle. The blade is bifurcated distal from the elongate handle, thus defining a conjoined portion, a first element, and a second element of the blade. The conjoined portion and the first element define a first outer face of the blade. The conjoined portion and the second element define a second outer face of the blade. Both the first outer face and the second outer face are arcuate. The first outer face and the second outer face are configured to enhance contact of the blade with a puck to improve control and striking of the puck with the blade.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The conjoined portion 18 and the first element 20 define a first outer face 24 of the blade 14. The conjoined portion 18 and the second element 22 define a second outer face 26 of the blade 14. Both the first outer face 24 and the second outer face 26 are arcuate. The first outer face 24 and the second outer face 26 are used for forehand and backhand striking of a puck, respectively. The first outer face 24 and the second outer face 26 are configured to enhance contact of the blade 14 with a puck to improve control and striking of the puck with the blade 14. The blades of prior art of hockey sticks are arcuate and thus have a substantially concave (forehand) face and a substantially convex (backhand) face, making backhand striking substantially more challenging than forehand striking.
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The first element 20 may be dimensionally longer than the second element 22, as shown in
The hockey stick 10 enables a method 28 for improving control and striking of a puck with a blade 14 of a hockey stick. The method 28 comprises a first step 30 of providing to a user a hockey stick 10 according to the specification above. A second step 32 of the method 28 is grasping of the elongate handle 12 in hands of the user. A third step 34 of the method 28 is accepting a puck onto a respective one of the first outer face 24 and the second outer face 26. A fourth step 36 of the method 28 is striking the puck with the respective one of the first outer face 24 and the second outer face 26.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
