US3428314A - Game ball - Google Patents
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- US3428314A US3428314A US467687A US3428314DA US3428314A US 3428314 A US3428314 A US 3428314A US 467687 A US467687 A US 467687A US 3428314D A US3428314D A US 3428314DA US 3428314 A US3428314 A US 3428314A
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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Definitions
- a pressureless ball e.g. a tennis ball comprising a hollow sphere of a vulcanized elastomeric composition containing dispersed discrete particles of wood flour as a reinforcing filler.
- This invention relates to playballs, including in particular lawn tennis balls, which will be referred to hereafter as tennis balls.
- a playball usually consists of a hollow sphere made of an elastic medium which is usually a composition of rubber or rubber-like material suitably formulated to give properties appropriate to the playball.
- the hollow sphere (hereinafter called the playball-shell) contains a gas at a pressure above that of the atmosphere the excess pressure in the case of a conventional playball usually being of the order of -l2 lbs. per square inch above atmospheric pressure immediately after manufacture.
- the presence of the gas at this super-atmospheric pressure modifies the properties of the playball so that desirable playing properties are obtained.
- the presence of the gas imparts a higher resilience to the playball (i.e. it bounces higher when dropped from a fixed height) and it also increases the resistance of the playball to deformation under a radially applied load such as for instance, is applied by a racket when the ball is struck.
- a tennis ball which may be regarded as a particular type of a playball in which the surface is covered by a textile medium composed of natural and/ or synthetic fibres in an arrangement whereby the particular desirable playing properties of a tennis ball are achieved.
- playballs could be manufactured without the difficulties associated with the conventional pressurised playballshell. Such difficulties would be minimised or obviated if the excess pressure inside the playball-shell could be substantially reduced or made equal to zero. It will be appreciated that the more nearly equal the values of pressure on either side of the wall of the shell the slower is the 'ice rate of diffusion of gas from inside the shell and if the pressures are equal, no diffusion will take place.
- a substantially reduced super-atmospheric internal pressure there is meant a pressure which is substantially reduced as compared to the conventional internal pressure in playball-shells.
- an internal pressure of up to about 6 lbs. per square inch above atmospheric pressure is regarded as substantially reduced compared to the conventional pressure of 1012 lbs. per square inch.
- a playball is made with reduced or zero superatmospheric internal pressure
- the wall of the hell must contribute significantly to or impart unaided the necessary properties of resilience and resistance to deforma tion.
- Satisfactory playballs can be made with reduced or zero super-atmospheric pressure by using substantially conventional rubber or rubber-like compositions while increasing the wall thickness of the playball-shell by an appreciable amount. It is found however, that by doing this the weight of the playball is substantially increased and in the case of a tennis ball, the resulting weight ⁇ would be outside the limits set by the controlling authorities. Such a method is therefore not satisfactory.
- a playball-shell comprises a self-supporting hollow sphere 1 of a rubber or rub ber-like composition, preferably a vulcanized elastomeric composition in which is dispersed a low-density reinforcing filler 2 comprising a finely divided cellulosic material.
- a self-supporting hollow sphere there is meant a sphere which returns after deformation to a substantially spherical shape without the support of an internal bladder or other internal reinforcement.
- the reinforcing filler 2 has a density of about 1 gram/cc, i.e. in the range 0.801.25 grams/co, the density being determined by measuring the variation in density of a rubber or rubber-like composition to which the reinforcing filler is added.
- a textile covering 3 encloses the hollow sphere 1.
- the cellulosic material may be in natural, chemicallytreated or regenerated form, the preferred forms being the natural and chemically-treated forms of commin-uted wood such as wood flour and chemically-treated wood flour (eg as sold under the name Solka Floc by Johnsen, Jorgensen & Wettre Ltd.)
- the weight of the low density reinforcing filler may be up to 50 percent of the weight of the rubbery polymer, the preferred range being 20 to 40 percent.
- wood flour is used as the filler, it should have a particle size not greater than 50 mesh.
- particle size is below mesh, of the order of mesh.
- 180 mesh indicates that the particle size is such that substantially all of the particles will pass through a mesh screen having 180 divisions to the inch.
- the rubber or rubber-like composition may be any composition suitable to produce the properties required of a playballshell. It is preferred to use a vulcanized composition based on natural rubber or a synthetic rubber similar in resilience properties to natural rubber, such as cis-polyisoprene or polybutadiene. Compounding ingredients such as vulcanization agents and accelerators and high density reinforcing fillers such as carbon black may be added as required.
- a composition resilience as measured on the Dunlop Tripsometer, British Standard 903 Part A8
- a composition hardness as measured in accordance with British Standard 903 Part A7 of above 65 degrees, particularly 75-80 degrees.
- a substantially reduced super-atmospheric internal pressure may be induced inside the playball-shell, for example by including a nitrogen-generating combination of ingredients in the composition so as to produce a playball-shell enclosing nitrogen at a super-atmospheric pressure of up to 6 lbs. per square inch.
- EXAMPLE I The formulation is given below of a composition from which satisfactory playballs having zero super-atmospheric internal pressure can be made in accordance with the present invention.
- the wood flour used was made from Baltic spruce and had a density of 0.83 grams/cc.
- the final composition had a density of 1.06 grams/ cc.
- Half-shells were made from the composition given above and spherical playball-shells were formed by moulding the shells at a temperature of 160 C. for a period of seven minutes which vulcanized the composition. They were then made into tennis balls by applying conventional tennis ball melton covering and were further moulded for 10 minutes at a temperature of 130 C.
- the resulting tennis balls were found to bounce to a height of 54 inches when dropped from a height of 100 inches (International Lawn Tennis Federation Specifications: 53-58 inches).
- the composition characteristics when measured in a manner specified by International Lawn Tennis Federation were also found to be satisfactory.
- EXAMPLE II The formulation is given below of a further composition from which satisfactory playballs having zero superatmospheric internal pressure can be made in accordance with the present invention.
- Playballs having a substantially reduced super-atmos- I pheric internal pressure may be manufactured from the compositions given above, but as compared to Example I, the manufacturing details differ in the following re.- spects:
- Tennis balls were made from these playball-shells by applying tennis ball melton as before and moulding for a further 10 minutes at C.
- compositions described in any of the three applications may be blended together and satisfactory playballs and tennis balls with substantially reduced or zero superatmospheric internal pressure produced, given due attention to compounding and moulding conditions.
- a satisfactory tennis ball has been produced from a composition including both wood fiour and Cellobond H. 831 which is a modified phenolic resin described in our application No. 467,755.
- a pressureless playball-shell comprising a self-supporting hollow sphere of a vulcanized elastomeric composition and as a reinforcing filler about 20-40% by weight based on the weight of the elastomer in said composition of particles of a wood flour having a density in the range 08-125 grams/cc., a particle size not more than 50 mesh, and being evenly distributed throughout said composition.
- a pressureless lawn tennis ball comprising a shell according to claim 1, and a textile medium covering said shell.
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GB28326/64A GB1108556A (en) | 1964-07-09 | 1964-07-09 | Improvements in or relating to playballs |
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DE (1) | DE1478022B2 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) |
GB (1) | GB1108556A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) |
MY (1) | MY7000040A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) |
SE (1) | SE326552B (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) |
Cited By (5)
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US4065126A (en) * | 1975-06-30 | 1977-12-27 | David Mantz | Practice tennis ball and apparatus |
US4765853A (en) * | 1987-10-07 | 1988-08-23 | Hoffman Allan C | Method of making a pressurized ball |
US4853056A (en) * | 1988-01-20 | 1989-08-01 | Hoffman Allan C | Method of making tennis ball with a single core and cover bonding cure |
US5558325A (en) * | 1993-08-05 | 1996-09-24 | Gencorp Inc. | Play balls or pressureless tennis balls |
GB2390816B (en) * | 2002-07-02 | 2006-07-19 | Derek Price | Lightweight 75mm ball |
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AT511909B1 (de) * | 2011-08-16 | 2013-06-15 | Chemiefaser Lenzing Ag | Verwendung von cellulosefasern mit verbesserter dosierfähigkeit zur verstärkung von verbundmaterialien sowie dadurch hergestellte formkörper |
Citations (2)
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US2896949A (en) * | 1950-08-22 | 1959-07-28 | Dunker Henry Christian Louis | Tennis balls |
US3239228A (en) * | 1962-06-21 | 1966-03-08 | Lord Corp | Golf ball |
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US2896949A (en) * | 1950-08-22 | 1959-07-28 | Dunker Henry Christian Louis | Tennis balls |
US3239228A (en) * | 1962-06-21 | 1966-03-08 | Lord Corp | Golf ball |
Cited By (6)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US4065126A (en) * | 1975-06-30 | 1977-12-27 | David Mantz | Practice tennis ball and apparatus |
US4765853A (en) * | 1987-10-07 | 1988-08-23 | Hoffman Allan C | Method of making a pressurized ball |
US4853056A (en) * | 1988-01-20 | 1989-08-01 | Hoffman Allan C | Method of making tennis ball with a single core and cover bonding cure |
US5558325A (en) * | 1993-08-05 | 1996-09-24 | Gencorp Inc. | Play balls or pressureless tennis balls |
AU674417B2 (en) * | 1993-08-05 | 1996-12-19 | Penn Racquet Sports, Inc. | Play balls or pressureless tennis balls |
GB2390816B (en) * | 2002-07-02 | 2006-07-19 | Derek Price | Lightweight 75mm ball |
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MY7000040A (en) | 1970-12-31 |
DE1478022A1 (de) | 1970-07-23 |
DE1478022B2 (de) | 1976-02-12 |
GB1108556A (en) | 1968-04-03 |
SE326552B (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) | 1970-07-27 |
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