JPS596852Y2 - Stick for gateball competition - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] This invention relates to an improvement of a stick for gateball games.

Gateball has recently become a new family sport that helps relieve stress and lack of exercise, especially among middle-aged and elderly people. Gateball is a new ball game that uses a ball made of wood or plastic and a long, thin mallet-shaped stick with a wooden handle to hit the ball. The sport is seeing remarkable growth in popularity.

However, in this game of gateball, the stick is made of wood using vertical wood, so when hitting a ball made of wood or plastic, it emits a plant-like hitting sound with the indescribable sound and resonance of wood. This makes the game extremely interesting, but on the other hand, since the ball is always hit on a limited area of the stick head, that is, the hitting surface, repeated hits can cause damage to the stick head. A major drawback was that the surface and its vicinity were dented, chipped, cracked, and damaged very quickly, making it unusable.

Furthermore, since the stick head and base end of the handle are made of wood, they are easily affected by the environment such as temperature, temperature, dryness and humidity, and external pressure during use, and are susceptible to damage such as cracks, chips, hangnails, and scratches. However, it has disadvantages such as reducing the durability and life of the stick and detracting from its aesthetic appearance.

This invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional gateball game by providing a gateball game stick as described below, which is improved so that the hitting part of the stick head is strongly reinforced without substantially degrading the plant-based hitting sound peculiar to wood. It was for a purpose.

To explain the gateball game stick of this invention in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, firstly, 1 is a stick constructed by having an elongated handle 3 integrally attached to a stick head 2 using a vertical piece of wood.

In this invention, plastic annular reinforcing bodies 4 are embedded or integrally provided at both ends of the wooden stick head 2, with one side exposed on the striking surface 2a.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 of the drawings, the annular reinforcing body 4 has a rectangular cross-sectional shape.
An annular reinforcing body 4 having a plastic wall thickness of approximately 3 to 5 m/m exposes its outer peripheral surface on the outer peripheral side surface 2b near the striking surface 2a of the stick head 2 (specifically, a portion approximately 10 m/m away from the striking surface 2a). It is provided in one piece or in a certain shape.

Next, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, a plastic annular reinforcing body 4 is embedded or integrally provided in the base end 3a of the handle 3 with one side exposed.
The annular reinforcing body 4 in this case may be shaped like an umbrella or a cap.

Furthermore, in the embodiment shown in Figures 5 and 6 of the drawings, the cross-sectional shape is such that the part surface 4a exposed on the striking surface 2a of the stick head 2 is narrow and gradually widens toward the other internal part surface 4b. A case is shown in which a short ladder-shaped annular reinforcing body 4 is provided at the end of the stick head 2 by being embedded or integrally formed.

The shape of the annular reinforcing body 4 in this case also includes a case where the partial surface 4a is very narrow and appears as a simple circular line on the striking surface 2a, for example, a triangular cross-sectional shape.

In this invention, each annular reinforcing body 4 is provided on the stick head 2 or the handle 3 by integrally embedding plastic using a plastic mold.

As mentioned above, in the stick of this invention, the plastic annular reinforcing body 4 is embedded in the stick head 2 with one side exposed on the hitting surface 2a and provided by integral molding. The hitting surface 2a and its vicinity are strongly reinforced by the annular reinforcing body 4, so that it will not be dented or chipped even by repeated hitting.
It hardly suffers damage such as cracking and can be used stably for a long period of time, and since only one side of the annular reinforcing body 4 is exposed to the striking surface 2a, the striking surface 2a The area of the wood part is larger than the area of the plastic exposed part of the annular reinforcing body 4, and has the outstanding effect of not degrading the unique, plant-like impact sound of wood produced when hitting a ball.

In addition to the annular reinforcing body 4, the ball hitting portion of the stick head 2 is reinforced by an outer peripheral side surface 2b near the hitting surface 2a.
By exposing the outer peripheral surface and providing another annular reinforcing body 4 embedded in the integral shape, the ball hitting part is further reinforced, and damage such as large cracks due to impact during hitting can be prevented, and in particular, the annular reinforcing body 4 is As the reinforcing body 4, the part surface 4a exposed to the striking surface 2a is narrow, and the other part surface 4 inside is narrow.
By making the cross-sectional shape gradually wider toward b, for example, a ladder shape with a short upper base, the part of the annular reinforcing body 4 exposed to the striking surface 2a can be comfortably narrowed, making it possible to reduce the width of the wooden part of the conventional wood part. This has the excellent effect of making the hitting sound completely the same as the hitting sound made by the stick head 2.

Also, since the handle 3 of the stick 1, especially its base end 3a, is made of wood like the stick head 2, it is susceptible to environmental influences such as temperature, humidity, dryness, and external pressure during use, resulting in cracks, chips, hangnails, etc. However, in this invention, a plastic annular reinforcing body 4 is embedded or integrally provided in the base end 3a of the handle 3, so that the handle 3 is easily damaged.
The base end 3a of the handle 3 is strongly reinforced to prevent cracks, cracks, hangnails, etc. caused by the natural environment, and damage to the base end 3a of the handle 3 caused by stick operations during games, carelessness during handling, etc. The present invention is capable of preventing each of these problems, improving the aesthetic sense of the appearance of the stick, maintaining stable and excellent quality for a long period of time, and providing it at a relatively low cost, thus bringing a new innovation to the industry.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the stick for playing a single ball according to the invention, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view, Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of the main part of the stick head, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional front view of the same. , FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional plan view of the base end of the handle, FIG. 5 is an enlarged side view of the main part of the stick head of another embodiment, and FIG. 6 is an enlarged longitudinal cross-sectional front view of the same. 1... Stick, 2... Stick head, 2a... Hitting surface, 2b...
Outer peripheral side surface, 3...handle, 3a...base end, 4...annular reinforcement body.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] 1. A gateball game stick comprising a wooden stick head 2, with a plastic annular reinforcing body 4 embedded or integrally provided with one side exposed on the hitting surface 2a. 2. A utility model in which the annular reinforcing body 4 has a narrow section surface 4a exposed on the striking surface 2a, and gradually widens toward the other internal section surface 4b, for example, in the form of a ladder with a short upper base in cross-section. A stick for gateball games according to registered claim 1. 3. The gateball game stick according to claim 1, wherein a plastic annular reinforcing body 4 is embedded and integrally formed on the outer circumferential side surface 2b of the stick head 2 in the vicinity of the hitting surface 2a. 4. The gateball game stick according to claim 1, wherein a plastic annular reinforcing body 4 is embedded or integrally provided in the base end 3a of the handle 3.