Games using tangible projectile inventions 06/06

20060142091 - Golf club: An improved golf club includes an improved grip. The grip may be improved over known grips by including an offset upper portion and/or a sliding grip portion, and/or by providing a shaft with greater flex in an upper shaft portion than in a lower shaft portion. The sliding grip portion...

20060142092 - Golf putting training device: There is provided a golf putting training apparatus that is portable and operable with standard USGA golf equipment. The apparatus include parallel channels each emanating from a respective dimple. The channels are separated by a distance such that a golf ball placed on each dimple can be simultaneously using a...

20060142093 - Golf club: A golf club comprises a club shaft having a tip end and a butt end, a golf club head being attached to the tip end of the club shaft, and a golf grip being attached to a region of the club shaft extending from the butt end toward the tip...

20060142094 - Golf putter: A golf putter has a head and a shaft connected to the head at a toe end. The head has an L-shaped cross section and a lower edge of a putting surface is smoothly curved with a lowermost point at an approximate midpoint between the toe and a heel of...

20060142095 - Adjustable weight putter: An adjustable weight golf putter is provided with a body portion of a material of low specific gravity, for example aluminum, and a weighted cap, receivable in a longitudinal recess opening at the back extremity of the body portion. The weighted cap is formed of a material of high specific...

20060142096 - Multilayer golf ball: The present invention encompasses a golf ball having a diameter and being comprised of a core and a cover, wherein the core is further comprised of a fluid mass at the center of the ball, and a first, solid, non-wound mantle layer surrounding the fluid mass, wherein the first mantle...

20060142097 - Golf ball with large inner core: The present invention is directed to golf balls having a resilient inner core and outer core made of a material substantially free of fillers. The invention also encompasses golf balls wherein the inner and outer cores are not made of a thermoplastic material. The invention encompasses golf balls having an...

20060142098 - Golf ball: Two-tiered dimples 8 of a golf ball have a first recessed part X and a second recessed part Y. The first recessed part X substantially forms a part of a spherical shape. The first recessed part X includes a first opening 14, a side wall curved face 16 and a...

20060142099 - Ball hitting stance training device: A ball hitting stance training device (1) having a top surface (12), which is preferably covered with an abrasive top surface material (2), preferably turf, having a target area (3) for placement of the stride foot, and a bottom surface (13). Support elements (7) having a plurality of spikes (6)...

20060142100 - Durable high performance hockey stick: A hockey stick comprises a shaft and a blade. The blade is configured to impact and exert energy on a hockey puck. The blade comprises a core that is generally enclosed within an outer layer. The core comprises a foam-filled cell structure having cell walls that define foam-filled cells. The...

20060142101 - Method for forming outerlayer on a curved surface: A method for forming an outside layer on a curved surface and a kit for the same purpose is disclosed. The method here is achieved by the following steps: (a) providing an assembling kit containing a first set and a second set; (b) assembling the first set and a second...

20060135275 - Putt sensitive ring: Practice putting system using an upright-putting Sensitive Ring. Sensitive Ring design allows the system to indicate a strongly delivered putt with a rocking motion of the Sensitive Ring and its flag. Sensitive Ring receiving a hard hit putt will stand vertically and lay its flag on the floor surface. Sensitive...

20060135276 - Peripheral weighted golf ball for putting training: A training golf ball apparatus having an asymmetrical weighting or cavity means extending from proximal the center of the training golf ball to proximal the surface. The weighting or cavity means has a density different from the general density of the training golf ball. A guideline circumference marks the surface...

20060135277 - Golf club and practice arrangement: A golf club including a shaft and a head attached to the shaft. A cavity is formed in the head and a removable light-producing insert is located within the cavity. A non-light producing insert is also provided so as to be selectively received within the cavity in place of the...

20060135278 - Apparatus for practicing golf putting: An attachment device for attaching to a golf putter to practice golf putting with the combined the golf putter, comprises a body member formed of a rigid material, the body member including a generally planar first surface for contacting against a vertical front surface of a head of a golf...

20060135279 - Golf putter with adjustable head and shaft angle: A golf putter with adjustable head and shaft angle to provide a adjustable golf putter that allows for the adjustment of the angle between the golf club shaft and putter head while minimizing the amount of parts necessary to assemble the golf putter and having all parts flush with one...

20060135280 - Golf training mat: A golf practice mat is provided, which includes a base mat, a bottom plate on the base mat, a receiving frame inserted on a portion of the base mat and the bottom plate, an artificial turf plate on the filling material, and artificial turf on the artificial turf plate. The...

20060135282 - Article comprising a fine-grained metallic material and a polymeric material: Lightweight articles comprising a polymeric material at least partially coated with a fine-grained metallic material are disclosed. The fine-grained metallic material has an average grain size of 2 nm to 5,000 nm, a thickness between 25 micron and 5 cm, and a hardness between 200 VHN and 3,000 VHN. The...

20060135281 - Strong, lightweight article containing a fine-grained metallic layer: Articles for automotive, manufacturing and industrial applications including shafts or tubes used, for example, as golf club shafts, ski and hiking poles, fishing rods or bicycle frames, skate blades and snowboards are at least partially electroplated with fine-grained layers of selected metallic materials. Parts with complex geometry can be coated...

20060135283 - Customizable center-of-gravity golf club head: A golf club head that allows a user to customize the location of the center of gravity. The golf club head comprises a club head having a hollow cavity with a weighting port. The weighting port allows a user to place weighting material inside the hollow cavity, customizing the location...

20060135284 - Golf club head with pixellated substrate: A golf club head has a face insert that is supported from beneath by a substrate composed of a plurality of elongate rod elements arranged in a parallel closely packed array. Because the face insert is made of a single material, the resiliency of the face insert itself does not...

20060135285 - Connecting structure for striking plate and body of golf club head: A connecting structure is provided for a striking plate and a body of a golf club head. The body includes an opening in a front side thereof. The opening is delimited by a perimeter end wall, and a first snapping projection is formed on the perimeter end wall. The striking...

20060135286 - Golf club head and its manufacturing method: A golf club head includes a first metallic member, a second metallic member having different thickness from the first metallic member, and a part where the first and second metallic members are welded by plasma welding, laser welding or electron beam welding. A gap between the first and second metallic...

20060135287 - Golf ball: An elastomeric composition for forming a golf ball or a component thereof is disclosed that includes the use of a non-conjugated diene monomer having two or more vinyl (CH2═CH—) terminal end groups. The composition produces a molded product exhibiting an enhanced combination of increased compression (i.e., softness) and resilience (C.O.R.)....

20060135288 - Great-circle geodesic dome: The present invention is a structural system and a method of fabricating the system comprised of finite elements called basis elements such as great circles or partial great circles to form a great-circle geodesic sphere, dome, or arch called a great sphere, dome, and arch, respectively. The structure is generated...

20060135289 - Mending device for golf grass fields: A mending device for golf grass fields includes a flexible housing and a mending rack. The flexible housing has a holding section and an extension. The holding section has a holding trough and a holding bore. The mending rack is for mending operation, and may be held in the holding...

20060135290 - Multifunctional and random pitching apparatus: A pitching apparatus for conducting batting practice wherein the apparatus spins and ejects a pitched ball in a predetermined pitching pattern into the air, and the batter swings a bat in order to hit the pitched ball. The pitching apparatus includes a housing having first and second side walls and...

20060135291 - Training and strengthening device for throwing sports: A training and strengthening device for throwing sports that uses aerodynamic drag to create a velocity-dependent resistance force on an athlete's throwing or swinging hand substantially throughout the entire training motion. The resistance force produced on the device from aerodynamic drag can be used as a sensitive indicator of throwing...

20060135292 - Baseball swing trainer: The present invention relates to a baseball swing trainer. In a first embodiment, a ball is pivotally attached to a vertical arm which is slidably attached to an oblique arm, the oblique arm is attached to a horizontal arm which is attached to a support structure; the vertical arm is...

20060135293 - Chute counter: An object counting and collecting device having a number of chutes mounted in an array on a frame that can be hung on a fence. Each individual chute is identifiable by a unique color and/or number and includes a counter for counting objects dropped therein. A basket can be optionally...

20060135294 - Four point field goal: A method of stimulating competition between competing football teams and adding to spectator interest. The method comprises the step of allowing a four point field goal attempt in a final quarter of a football game when certain predetermined conditions are met....

20060135295 - Racket shaft and racket equipped with such shaft: A racket shaft (1) that at one end is intended to be connected to a racket head (3), has a grip portion (13), and at its other end a knob (11) that is detachably mounted on the racket shaft (1), the knob (11) having an across dimension (T) that is...

20060135296 - Damping device for a ball games racket: The present invention relates to a dampening device for a ball game racket, in particular a tennis, squash, racket ball or badminton racket, as well as to a ball game racket comprising a dampening device of this kind. The dampening device according to the invention comprises a base body made...

20060135297 - Goal detection equipment for football: For the realization of the industrial project above mentioned, look at all the phases for creating the electronic bladder. Ten different versions have been invented to lodge the microsensors, up to the enough quantity, or the pressure system itself. Pictures (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), show how...

20060135298 - Sucker with an annular projection on adhesion surface and adhesion arrow having the sucker: The present invention relates to a sucker and an adhesion arrow having the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a sucker that can be attached, instead of a needle, to an arrow for a toy arrow shooter. The sucker of the present invention is formed with an annular projection...

20060135299 - Rollable, stackable two-part ball: A play object consisting of a larger ball with an open, substantially spherical-section cavity into which a smaller ball fits snuggly, yet is easily removable and re-insertable due to the diameter of the rim of the cavity being slightly smaller than the diameter of the smaller ball. The rim of...

20060135300 - Ball structure used in a baseball or a softball: A ball structure used in a baseball or a softball comprises a ball core; two covers enclosing the ball core; the two covers being seamed together by a seaming wire; an edge of each cover being formed with a plurality of wire holes for being passed by a seaming wire;...

20060128488 - Pocket billiards instructional device: Provided is a pocket billiards instructional device including a stand, a target optical head, and an object optical head. The target optical head defines a principal axis and is selectively rotatable thereabout. The target optical head is operative to emit a target optical beam and is attachable to the stand....

20060128489 - Golf simulator or measurement apparatus: The invention provides a simulator or measurement apparatus for use in a bail game where a ball is hit from a stationary position. The apparatus includes a bail (2), a connecting means (1), a base (48) and a measurement means. The ball (2) is connected by the connecting means (1)...

20060128490 - Roadway-transportable artificial golf practice green apparatus: A golf practice green apparatus is provided which is capable of transforming between multiple configurations. A first configuration is best suited for actual use as a target green on a golf driving range or the like. In a second configuration the effective width or other dimension of the apparatus is...

20060128491 - Golf course: A golf course (100/200) comprising a series of tee-areas T(1)-T(18), each containing a golf tee and a series of green-areas G(1)-G(18), each containing a golf hole. The tee-areas and the green-areas defining a first set of sequential fairway paths F1(1)-F1(18) between each tee-area and a target green-area in a first...

20060128492 - Golf trainer: A golf trainer (1) has a ground-engaging base (2) supporting a rail assembly (3) and a carriage (50) for guiding a golf club (typically a putter). Foot guides (12, 13) are of thin planar construction, having curved front edges and are configured and located to both indicate a good playing...

20060128493 - Divot indicating golf practice devices: A golf practice mat that allows a golfer to practice hitting golf shots from a synthetic turf surface that emulates natural grass while still being able to obtain visual feedback regarding the location of impact between the golf club head and the mat relative to the location of the ball...

20060128494 - Golf club shaft: A golf club shaft (10) composed of a metal tube and having a weight not less than 50 g and less than 85 g. A rib (21) is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the golf club shaft (10) and/or a peripheral surface thereof. A rigidity value (EI value)...

20060128495 - Lightweight, durable golf club shafts: An ultra lightweight golf club shaft which includes a butt section, a tip section, and a tapered section interconnecting the same. The tapered section can be a constant taper, or include a plurality of step portions interconnected by frustoconical transition areas. The shafts are extremely durable and allow a faster...

20060128496 - Maraging steel golf club head: The invention concerns a golf club head whereof the strike surface zone at least is made of maraging steel essentially consisting of 6.0 to 9.0 wt. % of nickel, 11.0 to 15.0 wt. % of chromium, 0.1 to 0.3 wt. % of titanium, 0.2 to 0.3 wt. % of beryllium,...

20060128497 - Golf club head with gas cushion: A golf club head includes a body, a striking plate engaged with the body and including a front side for striking a golf ball, and at least one gas cushion mounted in the body and behind the striking plate. The gas cushion includes a bladder defining a gas chamber. The...

20060128498 - Frame design putter head with rear mounted shaft: A golf putter head design comprising a front face (10) and a back weight (20) sandwiching multiple longitudinal rods (14,16) and with a center shaft mounting rod (18) attached to the back weight (20) to form a frame design where the vertical gaps in the putter head are spaced the...

20060128499 - Putter head: A putter head includes a first half member, a second half member, and an insert. The first half body includes a first metal, and has a face surface on a front face. The second half body includes a second metal, which is higher in specific gravity than the first metal,...

20060128501 - Composite metal wood club: A metal wood golf club head adapted for attachment to a shaft, comprising of a body portion and a crown portion, each portion constructed of a different density material. Combining a high-density material in the body portion, with a low-density material in the crown portion, creates an ultra-low center of...

20060128502 - Golf club head: A hollow golf club head includes a head main body having a face opening portion on a face side, and a face member that closes the face opening portion. A part or all of an upper edge of the face opening portion and an upper edge of the face member...

20060128500 - Golf club head or other ball striking device with discrete regions of different density: Ball striking devices may include: (a) a sole member; (b) at least one intermediate body member; (c) a crown member; and (d) a face member. The materials making up the sole member, the intermediate body member(s), and the crown member may be selected so that the densities of the materials...

20060128503 - Apparatuses, methods and systems relating to findable golf balls: Golf ball locators and components of such locators and methods of operating such locators and processing signals within such locators. In one aspect of the inventions described herein, an exemplary method of initializing a golf ball locator includes receiving received RF signals while also transmitting signals used to locate balls...

20060128505 - Golf ball layers having improved barrier properties: A golf ball comprising a core having an outer diameter of about 1.50 inches to about 1.62 inches; a cover comprising polyurethanes, polyureas, polyurea-urethanes, polyurethane-ureas, or a combination thereof; and an intermediate layer disposed between the core and the cover, the intermediate layer having a thickness of about 0.005 inches...

20060128504 - Multi-piece solid golf ball: In the present invention, by optimizing the balance of Shore D hardness between the intermediate layer and the cover, the balance of Shore D hardness between the surface and the center in the core, the balance of initial velocity between the core and the sphere, and the balance of Deflection...

20060128506 - Golf teaching system and method: The present invention involves a golf tee coated with colored coatings that when struck with a golf club leave a marking that easily identifies where the ball was struck on the club face and the path of the swing, but does not come off in normal handling. The tee leaves...

20060128507 - Triple-double index rating and classification system: A method of rating and classifying players of a game comprising the steps of: evaluating a players rebounding proficiency to provide a rebounds per game for a player; evaluating a players shooting proficiency to provide a points per game for a player; evaluating a players passing proficiency to provide assists...

20060128508 - Grip for a hockey stick with a hollow-ended shaft: Described is a grip for attachment to a sport stick having a shaft. One end of the shaft has a opening extending longitudinally into the shaft. The grip comprises an elongated grip portion having a hilt. The hilt has a longitudinal dimension sized for being grasped by the hand of...

20060128509 - Floor hockey puck: A floor hockey puck comprises a pair of felt discs bonded together by means of a flexible adhesive sandwiched between the discs forming a core which acts as a weight element to import sufficient weight to the puck to approximate the movement of an ice hockey puck on ice....

20060116214 - Golf putting training aid with glide rail: A golf swing training apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a base, at least one curved rail attached to the base, a carriage movably attached to the curved rail; and a fastener having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the fastener is dimensioned and...

20060116215 - Shock-absorbable grip: A shock-absorbable grip is comprised of a sleeve and a sheathing. The sleeve includes a hollow main body for being mounted on a handle of the sporting apparatus and having a front retainer and a rear retainer protuberating respectively at its front and rear ends. The sheathing wraps the main...

20060116216 - Golf putter and putter head: A putter club head has a longitudinal body and a means of attaching a shaft thereto. The body may be solid, hollow, or partially hollow or solid. If hollow or partially hollow, the body may have a weighted mass therein. Such a weighted mass may be located towards a front...

20060116217 - Golf club: A golf club comprises a club shaft having a tip end and a butt end, a club head being attached to the tip end of the club shaft, and a golf grip being attached to a region of the club shaft extending from the butt end toward the tip end...

20060116218 - Golf club head: A metal wood golf club head is provided having a front face with an impact zone including a compliant area. Preferably, the compliant area is disposed in an upper portion of the front face. Preferably, a through-slit is provided in the front face to form the compliant area. The through-slit...

20060116219 - Iron-type golf club head: An iron-type golf club head comprises a top having an upper surface of the club head, a sole having a bottom surface of the club head, a toe connecting between the top and the sole, a heel being in the opposite side of the toe, a face portion being surrounded...

20060116220 - Golf ball: Golf ball 2 has a core 4, a mid layer 5 and a cover 6. This mid layer 5 includes 20 parts by weight or greater and 60 parts by weight or less of a styrene block-containing thermoplastic elastomer having a material hardness of less than 10, and 40 parts...

20060116221 - Multi-piece solid golf ball: A multi-piece solid golf ball exhibits a good profile of rebound, feel and durability suited for low head speed amateur players when it satisfies the requirements that (Shore D hardness of the cover)−(Shore D hardness of the intermediate layer)>0, (initial velocity (in m/s) of the core enclosed with the intermediate...

20060116222 - Golf ball: Golf ball 2 has numerous double radius dimples and numerous triple radius dimples on the surface thereof. The double radius dimple has a first side wall face having a curvature radius R1, and a bottom face having a curvature radius R2 that is 5 times or more and 55 times...

20060116223 - Lacrosse stick and method of using same: An improved lacrosse stick design and method of using same providing, inter alia, (1) an extendable lacrosse stick, (2) a quick release head/stick design, (3) a method of changing the lacrosse stick head or stick length “on the fly” so as to avoid leaving the playing field, and (4) a...

20060116224 - Hockey puck collection apparatus: Apparatus of use in the collection and storage of hockey pucks from an ice surface, the apparatus having a storage facility, such as a bag having a puck entry aperture; aperture door adjacent the entry aperture wherein the door is (i) in a static position as to prevent stored pucks...

20060116225 - Basketball goal systems: Disclosed herein are various embodiments of basketball goal systems. One embodiment, among others, comprises a rim connection assembly coupled to a support structure, the rim connection assembly comprising a support plate coupled to a backboard frame, a rim, and a plurality of tubular members through which portions of the rim...

20060116226 - Adjustable net support system: A pole assembly supports an edge of a net by means of a support pole adapted to be positioned upright on a surface. A net pole is secured to an edge portion of the net to be suspended. A bracket connects the support pole and the net pole to one...