CA1203259A - Field hockey stick - Google Patents
Field hockey stickInfo
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- CA1203259A CA1203259A CA000421766A CA421766A CA1203259A CA 1203259 A CA1203259 A CA 1203259A CA 000421766 A CA000421766 A CA 000421766A CA 421766 A CA421766 A CA 421766A CA 1203259 A CA1203259 A CA 1203259A
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- Prior art keywords
- head
- hockey stick
- stick
- free end
- shank
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B59/00—Bats, rackets, or the like, not covered by groups A63B49/00 - A63B57/00
- A63B59/70—Bats, rackets, or the like, not covered by groups A63B49/00 - A63B57/00 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
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
- A63B2102/00—Application of clubs, bats, rackets or the like to the sporting activity ; particular sports involving the use of balls and clubs, bats, rackets, or the like
- A63B2102/22—Field hockey
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Abstract
A B S T R A C T
A field hockey stick is disclosed having a short head and a more compact hitting surface to allow a ball to be more easily hit both in forehand and back-hand strokes. The hockey stick has a short head with a free end of the head being bent in relation to a shank of the head and merging in towards the handle of the stick. The improvement comprises the free end of the head being bent back through about 180° in such a manner that an inner edge of the free end of the head facing the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
A field hockey stick is disclosed having a short head and a more compact hitting surface to allow a ball to be more easily hit both in forehand and back-hand strokes. The hockey stick has a short head with a free end of the head being bent in relation to a shank of the head and merging in towards the handle of the stick. The improvement comprises the free end of the head being bent back through about 180° in such a manner that an inner edge of the free end of the head facing the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
Description
3Z~9 HOCKEY STICK
The invention relates to a field hockey stick with a short head. More specifically the hockey stick of this invention has a head with a free end which is bent in relation to the shank and merges into the stick.
For playing field hockey, in recent times hockey sticks with short heads have been used which are handier than hockey sticks with heads swung far out but which only offer the ball a comparatively small hitting surface. During play, it therefore often happens that the ball rolls away over the head or is not hit correctly during the stroke. Particularly during backhand play, the front face of the head facing the ball, close to the ground, is particularly small because only the front edge of the end of the head touches the ground.
It is an object of the present invention to avoid these disadvantages and to provide a hockey stick with a short head, the useful striking surface and stopping surface of which for the ball is larger than on the conventional hockey sticks and is almost equally large for forehand play and backhand play, and which renders possible rapid play requiring little force.
This problem is solved with the invention in that the free end of the head is bent back through about 180 in such a manner that the inner edge of the free end of the head adjacent to the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
As a result of this construction, the head acquires the shape of a substantially U-shaped hook wherein the two arms are at such a distance apart that ~2C~ 9 a ring pass is ensured but the ball cannot slip through between the two arms. Accordingly, for stop-ping and striking the ball, the two surfaces of the shank of the head and of the end of the head, disposed side by side, and the air space between them are avail-able, the wid~h of the air space being smaller than the diameter of the ball.
The construction of the hockey stick accord-ing to the present invention also has the advantage that the stick can be turned very quickly and with the expenditure of very little force, because the head with the bent back end of the head turns on the ground like a circular disc~
As a result of the enlargement of the playing area of the stick achieved with the invention, faulty strokes are avoided during the game and many fewer technical faults are made. As a result, play is not interrupted so often during matches and playing time is gained.
A particular advantage of the hockey stick according to the invention lies in the fact that balls can be played and hit much more easily backhand over the ground. During the execution of the backhand stroke, the centre of gravity of the head of the stick is close to the centre of gravity of the ball. As a result, only a small torque develops in the stick during the striking as a result of which more force is trans-mitted to the ball and a high velocity is imparted to this.
With this new stick, the game of hockey becomes safer. Furthermore, the ball can no longer be struck with the upper edge of the head and no longer jumps up in the event of a somewhat inaccurate stroke.
Also during stopping, the ball can no longer jump up as a result, so that many injuries are avoided.
12~ S9 ~ nother advantage consists in that a so-called 'high ball" can be played very easily with the hockey stick according to the invention. Here it is a question of a special kind of playing which only a few hockey players master. In this case, the ball is "scooped up'' and hit over a long distance.
In addition, the hockey stick according to the invention has the advantage that the ball cannot roll over the head during stopping so that it can easily be ''stopped dead''.
Also balls which are stopped with the back-hand, in which case the stick is laid on the ground -can no longer slide so easily under the stick. The stick according to the invention is actually closer to the ground because the head is no longer so long.
This is an advantage, particularly with artificial grass and for indoor hockey.
In order to facilitate handling still further, the head has, at its rounded back, a thickened portion which is between the upper edge of the end of the head and the apex region of the bend. As a result, the centre o gravity of the hockey stick is displaced so that the stick can be turned with the expenditure of very little force when changing over from forehand play to backhand play or vice versa. In this case, it is particularly appropriate if the outer marginal boundary of the head is made substantially semicircular and is taken up to th~ upper edge of the end of the head.
As a result, the head always rests on the ground with an arcuate marginal portion with a constant radius of curvature regardless of how the stick is held during play. The striking conditions are therefore always the same during forehand play and backhand play.
In order that the head may have adequate strength even in the strongly bent shape according to ~z~ 9 the invention, the head according to the invention con-sists of a plurality of curved layers of wood which are glued together and the boundary surfaces of which, which are glued together, extend substantially per-pendicularly to the flat front (playing side) of the stick.
The present invention provides in a hockey stick with a short head, a free end of the head of which is bent in relation to a shank of the head mer-ging into the stick, the improvement comprising the free end of the head being bent back through about 180 in such a manner that an inner edge of the free end of the head facing the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
Further features and advantages of the inven-tion are apparent from the following description and the drawing in which a preferred form of embodiment of the invention is explained in more detail with reference to an example.
Figure 1 shows a hockey stick according to the invention in a front view which shows the left-hand, flat side of the hockey stick, Figure 2 shows the head of the hockey stick of Figure 1 with shank extension in an enlarged illus-tration, Figure 3 shows the subject of Figure 2 in an end view, Figure 4 shows a rear view of the head with stick connection, which shows the rounded back of the stick, and Figure 5 shows a view of the head from below, seen in the direction of the arrow V.
In Figure 1, a hockey stick is illustrated which is designated as a whole by 10 and which consists of the handle ll, the shàft 12 of the stick and the ~z~
head 13 which merges into the shaft 12 of the stick at the so-called joint 14, also called the lower splicing--. The left-hand side of the hockey stick 10 facing the observer in Figure 1, is flat and repre-sents the front 15 of the hockey stick which shouldface the ball, while the opposite right-hand side of the hockey stick is rounded and is regarded as the back 16 during play, with which the ball should not be touched during play.
The head 13 consists of a plurality of layers of wood which are glued together, preferably from the wood of the mulberry tree, the boundary surfaces 18 of which, which are glued together, and extend sub-stantially perpendicularly to the flat front 15 of the hockey stick 10. The layers of wood 17 can be taken further into the shaft 12 of the stick, in which case resilient inserts of glass fibre or a resilient mater-ial can ~e disposed between them. The handle 11 may appropriately carry a wrapping 19 of textile or leather material.
The head 13 consists of the shank 20 of the head, which merges into the shaft of the stick 12 in the region of the ~oint 14, and of the free end 21 of the head which.is continued in the shank 20 of the head and is bent back by about 180 in relation to this so that the inner edge 22 of the free end 21 of the head facing the shank 20 of the head is at a short distance a from the shank 20 of the head. This distance a is so great that the so-called -ring pass--is possible, that is to say the whole hockey stick 10and its head 13 can be pulled through a circular ring which has an internal diameter of 5.08 cm. Apart from this, however, the distance a is as short as possible and on the average is about half as large as the larg-est diameter D of the head 13.
The invention relates to a field hockey stick with a short head. More specifically the hockey stick of this invention has a head with a free end which is bent in relation to the shank and merges into the stick.
For playing field hockey, in recent times hockey sticks with short heads have been used which are handier than hockey sticks with heads swung far out but which only offer the ball a comparatively small hitting surface. During play, it therefore often happens that the ball rolls away over the head or is not hit correctly during the stroke. Particularly during backhand play, the front face of the head facing the ball, close to the ground, is particularly small because only the front edge of the end of the head touches the ground.
It is an object of the present invention to avoid these disadvantages and to provide a hockey stick with a short head, the useful striking surface and stopping surface of which for the ball is larger than on the conventional hockey sticks and is almost equally large for forehand play and backhand play, and which renders possible rapid play requiring little force.
This problem is solved with the invention in that the free end of the head is bent back through about 180 in such a manner that the inner edge of the free end of the head adjacent to the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
As a result of this construction, the head acquires the shape of a substantially U-shaped hook wherein the two arms are at such a distance apart that ~2C~ 9 a ring pass is ensured but the ball cannot slip through between the two arms. Accordingly, for stop-ping and striking the ball, the two surfaces of the shank of the head and of the end of the head, disposed side by side, and the air space between them are avail-able, the wid~h of the air space being smaller than the diameter of the ball.
The construction of the hockey stick accord-ing to the present invention also has the advantage that the stick can be turned very quickly and with the expenditure of very little force, because the head with the bent back end of the head turns on the ground like a circular disc~
As a result of the enlargement of the playing area of the stick achieved with the invention, faulty strokes are avoided during the game and many fewer technical faults are made. As a result, play is not interrupted so often during matches and playing time is gained.
A particular advantage of the hockey stick according to the invention lies in the fact that balls can be played and hit much more easily backhand over the ground. During the execution of the backhand stroke, the centre of gravity of the head of the stick is close to the centre of gravity of the ball. As a result, only a small torque develops in the stick during the striking as a result of which more force is trans-mitted to the ball and a high velocity is imparted to this.
With this new stick, the game of hockey becomes safer. Furthermore, the ball can no longer be struck with the upper edge of the head and no longer jumps up in the event of a somewhat inaccurate stroke.
Also during stopping, the ball can no longer jump up as a result, so that many injuries are avoided.
12~ S9 ~ nother advantage consists in that a so-called 'high ball" can be played very easily with the hockey stick according to the invention. Here it is a question of a special kind of playing which only a few hockey players master. In this case, the ball is "scooped up'' and hit over a long distance.
In addition, the hockey stick according to the invention has the advantage that the ball cannot roll over the head during stopping so that it can easily be ''stopped dead''.
Also balls which are stopped with the back-hand, in which case the stick is laid on the ground -can no longer slide so easily under the stick. The stick according to the invention is actually closer to the ground because the head is no longer so long.
This is an advantage, particularly with artificial grass and for indoor hockey.
In order to facilitate handling still further, the head has, at its rounded back, a thickened portion which is between the upper edge of the end of the head and the apex region of the bend. As a result, the centre o gravity of the hockey stick is displaced so that the stick can be turned with the expenditure of very little force when changing over from forehand play to backhand play or vice versa. In this case, it is particularly appropriate if the outer marginal boundary of the head is made substantially semicircular and is taken up to th~ upper edge of the end of the head.
As a result, the head always rests on the ground with an arcuate marginal portion with a constant radius of curvature regardless of how the stick is held during play. The striking conditions are therefore always the same during forehand play and backhand play.
In order that the head may have adequate strength even in the strongly bent shape according to ~z~ 9 the invention, the head according to the invention con-sists of a plurality of curved layers of wood which are glued together and the boundary surfaces of which, which are glued together, extend substantially per-pendicularly to the flat front (playing side) of the stick.
The present invention provides in a hockey stick with a short head, a free end of the head of which is bent in relation to a shank of the head mer-ging into the stick, the improvement comprising the free end of the head being bent back through about 180 in such a manner that an inner edge of the free end of the head facing the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
Further features and advantages of the inven-tion are apparent from the following description and the drawing in which a preferred form of embodiment of the invention is explained in more detail with reference to an example.
Figure 1 shows a hockey stick according to the invention in a front view which shows the left-hand, flat side of the hockey stick, Figure 2 shows the head of the hockey stick of Figure 1 with shank extension in an enlarged illus-tration, Figure 3 shows the subject of Figure 2 in an end view, Figure 4 shows a rear view of the head with stick connection, which shows the rounded back of the stick, and Figure 5 shows a view of the head from below, seen in the direction of the arrow V.
In Figure 1, a hockey stick is illustrated which is designated as a whole by 10 and which consists of the handle ll, the shàft 12 of the stick and the ~z~
head 13 which merges into the shaft 12 of the stick at the so-called joint 14, also called the lower splicing--. The left-hand side of the hockey stick 10 facing the observer in Figure 1, is flat and repre-sents the front 15 of the hockey stick which shouldface the ball, while the opposite right-hand side of the hockey stick is rounded and is regarded as the back 16 during play, with which the ball should not be touched during play.
The head 13 consists of a plurality of layers of wood which are glued together, preferably from the wood of the mulberry tree, the boundary surfaces 18 of which, which are glued together, and extend sub-stantially perpendicularly to the flat front 15 of the hockey stick 10. The layers of wood 17 can be taken further into the shaft 12 of the stick, in which case resilient inserts of glass fibre or a resilient mater-ial can ~e disposed between them. The handle 11 may appropriately carry a wrapping 19 of textile or leather material.
The head 13 consists of the shank 20 of the head, which merges into the shaft of the stick 12 in the region of the ~oint 14, and of the free end 21 of the head which.is continued in the shank 20 of the head and is bent back by about 180 in relation to this so that the inner edge 22 of the free end 21 of the head facing the shank 20 of the head is at a short distance a from the shank 20 of the head. This distance a is so great that the so-called -ring pass--is possible, that is to say the whole hockey stick 10and its head 13 can be pulled through a circular ring which has an internal diameter of 5.08 cm. Apart from this, however, the distance a is as short as possible and on the average is about half as large as the larg-est diameter D of the head 13.
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It can be seen from the drawing that the outer marginal boundary 24 of the head 13 is substan-tially semicircular in construction and reaches as far as the upper edge 25 of the end 21 of the head.
At its rounded back 16, the head has a thickened portion 26 which is substantially in the region between the upper edge 25 of the end 21 of the head and the apex region 27 of the bend 28. As a result of this thickened portion, the centre of gravity of the hockey stick 10 is displaced during play more towards the end of the head so that in the playing position illustrated in Figures 1 and 4, during forehand play (Figure 1) and backhand play (Figure ~, it is substantially on a line 29 which passes from the upper end of the handle 11 through the middle of the gap 30 between shank 20 of the head and end 21 of the head. The hockey stick 10 can then be turned parti-cularly easily in the nor~al playing position so that its handling during play is facilitated.
The invention is not restricted to the example of the embodiment illustrated but several modifications and amplifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, it is also possible to make the distance a between shank 20 of the head and end 21 of the head larger or smaller. The distance should not be so great, however, that the hockey ball passes through between shank of the head and end of the head or remains stuck in there when struck. On the other hand, the distance a should not be so short that the ring can no longer be pulled over the head during the ring-pass test. For special pur-poses, the thickened portion at the back o the hockey stick can also be provided at a somewhat different place if this proves more favourable during the handling, par-ticularly of shorter sticks for smaller people. It is lZ~ 59 also possible to allow the outer marginal boundary 27 of the head to extend not over an arc but over another curve.
It can be seen from the drawing that the outer marginal boundary 24 of the head 13 is substan-tially semicircular in construction and reaches as far as the upper edge 25 of the end 21 of the head.
At its rounded back 16, the head has a thickened portion 26 which is substantially in the region between the upper edge 25 of the end 21 of the head and the apex region 27 of the bend 28. As a result of this thickened portion, the centre of gravity of the hockey stick 10 is displaced during play more towards the end of the head so that in the playing position illustrated in Figures 1 and 4, during forehand play (Figure 1) and backhand play (Figure ~, it is substantially on a line 29 which passes from the upper end of the handle 11 through the middle of the gap 30 between shank 20 of the head and end 21 of the head. The hockey stick 10 can then be turned parti-cularly easily in the nor~al playing position so that its handling during play is facilitated.
The invention is not restricted to the example of the embodiment illustrated but several modifications and amplifications are possible without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, it is also possible to make the distance a between shank 20 of the head and end 21 of the head larger or smaller. The distance should not be so great, however, that the hockey ball passes through between shank of the head and end of the head or remains stuck in there when struck. On the other hand, the distance a should not be so short that the ring can no longer be pulled over the head during the ring-pass test. For special pur-poses, the thickened portion at the back o the hockey stick can also be provided at a somewhat different place if this proves more favourable during the handling, par-ticularly of shorter sticks for smaller people. It is lZ~ 59 also possible to allow the outer marginal boundary 27 of the head to extend not over an arc but over another curve.
Claims (12)
1. In a hockey stick with a short head, a free end of the head of which is bent in relation to a shank of the head merging into the stick, the shank extending in a substantially straight line from a shaft handle, the improvement comprising the free end of the head being bent back through about 180° in such a manner that an inner edge of the free end of the head facing the shank of the head is at a short distance from the shank of the head.
2. A hockey stick as claimed in Claim 1, wherein an average distance of the inner edge of the free end of the head from the shank of the head is about half as great as the largest diameter of the head.
3. A hockey stick as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the head has a rounded back and a thickened portion between an upper edge of the free end of the head and an apex region where the head is bent in relation to the shank.
4. A hockey stick as claimed in Claim 1, wherein an outer marginal boundary of the head is substantially semi-circular in construction.
5. A hockey stick as claimed in Claim 1, wherein a semicircular marginal boundary is taken up to an upper edge of the free end of the head.
6. A hockey stick as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the head comprises a plurality of curved layers of wood which are glued together and have boundary surfaces glued to one another and extending substantially perpendicularly to a flat front of the stick.
7. A hockey stick having a shaft and a head, the head being provided at one end of the shaft and being in the form of a U-shaped member having two limbs and a base interconnecting the limbs, one limb of the head having a free end portion and the other limb of the head having an end portion forming an axial continuation of the said one end of the shaft, the distance between the said limbs being less than the diameter of a hockey ball and the said limbs and base together providing a ball-striking face.
8. A hockey stick as claimed in claim 7, in which the average value of the said distance is about equal to half the largest width of the said limbs.
9. A hockey stick as claimed in claim 7, in which the said one limb of the head has a thickened portion between its free end portion and a central portion of the base.
10. A hockey stick as claimed in claim 7, in which an outer marginal boundary of the base and said one limb is substantially semi-circular in form.
11. A hockey stick as claimed in claim 4, in which the one extremity of the said semi-circular marginal boundary neighbours the said free end portion of the said one limb of the head.
12. A hockey stick as claimed in claim 7, in which at least the head consists of a plurality of curved layers of wood which are glued together at facing surfaces lying, in the finished stick, perpendicular to the said ball-striking face.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE8204374 | 1982-02-17 | ||
| DEG8204374.4 | 1982-02-17 |
Publications (1)
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| CA1203259A true CA1203259A (en) | 1986-04-15 |
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Family Applications (1)
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| CA000421766A Expired CA1203259A (en) | 1982-02-17 | 1983-02-16 | Field hockey stick |
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| AR (1) | AR229721A1 (en) |
| AU (1) | AU551198B2 (en) |
| BE (1) | BE895875A (en) |
| CA (1) | CA1203259A (en) |
| ES (1) | ES270273Y (en) |
| NL (1) | NL8202631A (en) |
| ZA (1) | ZA83818B (en) |
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1982
- 1982-06-29 NL NL8202631A patent/NL8202631A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1982-12-29 AR AR291739A patent/AR229721A1/en active
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1983
- 1983-02-07 ZA ZA83818A patent/ZA83818B/en unknown
- 1983-02-09 ES ES1983270273U patent/ES270273Y/en not_active Expired
- 1983-02-10 AU AU11325/83A patent/AU551198B2/en not_active Ceased
- 1983-02-10 BE BE0/210095A patent/BE895875A/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1983-02-16 CA CA000421766A patent/CA1203259A/en not_active Expired
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| NL8202631A (en) | 1983-09-16 |
| AU551198B2 (en) | 1986-04-17 |
| AR229721A1 (en) | 1983-10-31 |
| AU1132583A (en) | 1983-08-25 |
| ZA83818B (en) | 1983-10-26 |
| ES270273U (en) | 1983-07-16 |
| BE895875A (en) | 1983-05-30 |
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