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20100160055 - Replaceable inlay pool cues: A pool cue adapted to be used in the game of pool may include a butt plate member, a butt sleeve member being detachably connected to the butt plate member, and a wrap member being detachably connected to the butt sleeve member. The detachable connection between the butt plate member... Agent: Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr.

20100160056 - Golf tournament: A method for organising a golf tournament is described, the method comprising the steps of: specifying a first set of clubs for use in the tournament, said first set of clubs being designated traditional clubs. The method further comprising requiring each player to use said first set of clubs in... Agent: Mark Dolling Andrews

20100160057 - Illuminated flagpole: An illuminated golf flagpole is disclosed. One embodiment comprises a frosted polycarbonate tube coated or continuous covering with electoluminescent film. Another embodiment provides a plurality of LEDs externally mounted to a flagpole tube and covered with a translucent shell. Yet another embodiment provides a range finder mounted to a flagpole... Agent: Crossley Patent Law

20100160058 - Apparatus and method for improving a golf shot: A golf practice apparatus a generally circular disc, said disc having a centrally located opening, said central located opening forming a golf hole and a method of improving one's golf swing by aiming at the apparatus.... Agent: Patrick J. Fleis Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20100160059 - Golf training device: The present invention provides a sport training device for improving technique by providing resistance within the context of a sporting movement. The invention comprises an arcuate frame worn on the thigh of a user, which is secure to the user's thigh with an adjustable belt or cuff coupled to the... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20100160060 - Portable swing trainer: A portable swing trainer has a wedge body of a triangular shape, and a stick sensor having a vertical adjustment and a horizontal adjustment. The stick sensor has a deployed position and a collapsed position. The stick sensor is mounted behind the wedge body. A restoring mechanism can be for... Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng

20100160061 - Sports impact point indicator: A sports impact point indicator of planar form has a rear surface with a contact adhesive for adhering the indicator to the face of a golf club or bat, and the indicator is sized to cover a major portion of the face of the club or bat. The indicator comprises... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20100160062 - Golf club and method for maintenance thereof: A golf club includes a golf club head including a golf club head including a head body and a pair of balance adjustment portions formed in the head body, a plurality of weights detachably retained in each balance adjustment portion so that a three-dimensional gravity center position of the golf... Agent: Yokoi & Company U.s.a., Inc.

20100160063 - Device for game: A device for a game, the device attachable to a playing means and including a substantially annular gripping portion surrounding an inner member, said gripping portion including a first and a second end, the arrangement being such that with said first and second ends urged towards one another the gripping... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100160064 - Releasable and interchangeable connections for golf club heads and shafts: Golf club heads are releasably engaged with shafts so that the club heads and shafts can be readily interchanged and/or so that the shaft position with respect to the club head can be readily changed. Assemblies for connecting the club head and shaft may include: (a) a shaft engaging member... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100160065 - Swingweight adjusted golf club shaft: An improved golf club shaft and corresponding golf club is disclosed. More specifically, a golf club shaft that is capable of minimizing or eliminating swingweight variations within a golf club despite being cut down to various different lengths to accommodate the length and heads of a set of irons is... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100160066 - Golf clubs with progressive tapered face thicknesses: Embodiments of a golf club set with progressive tapered face thickness coordinated with club loft are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation Legal Department

20100160067 - Iron golf club heads and golf club sets with variable weight distribution: Described herein are iron golf club heads and sets of iron golf clubs that have variable weight distribution. Each iron golf club head has a cavity and a y-shaped cavity pad disposed on at least a portion of a back wall of the cavity. The y-shaped cavity pad provide reduced... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP 5200 Bank Of America Plaza

20100160068 - Releasable and interchangeable connections for golf club heads and shafts: Golf club heads are releasably engaged with shafts so that the club heads and shafts can be readily interchanged and/or so that the shaft position with respect to the club head can be readily changed. Assemblies for connecting the club head and shaft may include: (a) a shaft engaging member... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100160070 - Releasable and interchangeable connections for golf club heads and shafts: Golf club heads are releasably engaged with shafts so that the club heads and shafts can be readily interchanged and/or so that the shaft position with respect to the club head can be readily changed. Assemblies for connecting the club head and shaft may include: (a) a shaft engaging member... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100160069 - Temporary golf club shaft-component connection: A temporary shaft-component connection for assembling a selected golf club shaft with a club head and/or hand grip segment, to facilitate custom club design and fitting to suit the needs and preferences of an individual golfer. The temporary shaft-component connection is particularly designed for use with nonmetallic club shafts formed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100160071 - Temporary golf club shaft-component connection: A temporary shaft-component connection for assembling a selected golf club shaft with a club head and/or hand grip segment, to facilitate custom club design and fitting to suit the needs and preferences of an individual golfer. The temporary shaft-component connection is particularly designed for use with nonmetallic club shafts formed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100160072 - Method of analysis for kinetic properties of golf club head and golf club therefor: The accuracy or computation speed of analysis of a club head using the finite element method is improved. In a method of analysis of a golf club head, a model of the golf club head represented by a set of elements including tetrahedral solid elements 30 is prepared on a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100160073 - Golf club head: A golf club head according to one or more aspects of the present invention may include a strike face, a rear wall behind the strike face, and a perimeter-weighting element at least partially surrounding the rear wall. The club head may further include an insert, associated with the rear wall... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100160074 - Golf club head: A golf club head having a hollow construction produces a characteristic low ball hitting sound to accommodate the diversity of golfers' preferences for ball hitting sounds even if the volume of the golf club head is increased to 430 to 500 cc and the weight thereof is decreased to 160... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100160075 - Fairway wood type golf club head: A fairway wood type golf club head and method for forming is disclosed herein. The golf club head preferably has a cast body, a compression molded crown, and weight pads. The weight pads can be manipulated to create different mass property configurations for the golf club head using the same... Agent: Callaway Golf C0mpany

20100160076 - Golf club head: A golf club head includes a front face having a grooved striking zone for impacting a golf ball, a rear face opposite to said front face, a top portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a hosel portion having a shaft-receiving bore. The toe portion surface meets... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100160077 - Multi-layer golf ball: Disclosed herein is a multi-layer golf ball having a soft outer cover. The golf ball has an inner cover layer with a Shore D hardness of 60 or more, and an outer cover with a Shore D hardness of 55 or less, and more preferably 50 or less. In a... Agent: Callaway Golf C0mpany

20100160078 - Modified ionomer composition: The present invention relates to golf balls and golf ball components comprising a blend of one or more ionomers mixed with one or more metal or ammonium salts of chelating agent. The resulting modified ionomer compositions have improved processability as shown by the increase in melt flow index (I2) as... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100160079 - Compositions for sports equipment: Also disclosed are golf balls that include (i) a core, (ii) at least one intermediate layer, and (iii) at least one cover layer, wherein at least one of the core, intermediate layer or cover layer includes the polylalkenamer/functionalized organic modifier composition as a majority ingredient.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100160080 - Golf ball: A second golf ball 22 includes a core 24, a mid layer 28, and a cover 30. The mid layer 28 has a melt flow rate (190° C., 2.16 kg) of 4 g/10 min or greater. Preferably, the mid layer 28 includes a high melt viscosity resin (A), a low... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100160081 - Golf ball composition: The present invention relates to golf ball having a core and an outer cover layer made from a blend composition of about 1 to about 99 wt % of a block copolymer having no polar functionality; and from about 1 to about 99 wt % (based on the combined weight... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100160082 - Golf balls having a casing layer formed from a single high acid based ionomer with an ultra high melt flow index maleic anhydride terpolymer: The present invention is a multi-piece golf ball having a casing layer comprising of a single high acid based ionomer that is blended with an ultra high melt flow index maleic anhydride terpolymer with a melt flow index of at least 70 g/10 min. at 190° C. The maleic anhydride... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100160083 - Multilayer core golf ball having hardness gradient within and between each core layer: A multi-layered core golf ball wherein each core layer comprises its own specific hardness gradient in addition to an overall specific hardness gradient from one core layer to the next. The inner and outer core layers comprise a plurality of hardnesses of from about 50 Shore C to about 80... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100160084 - Multilayer core golf ball having hardness gradient within and between each core layer: A multi-layered core golf ball wherein each core layer comprises its own specific hardness gradient in addition to an overall specific hardness gradient from one core layer to the next. The inner core layer comprises a plurality of hardnesses of from about 40 Shore C to about 85 Shore C,... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100160085 - Multilayer core golf ball having hardness gradient within and between each core layer: A multi-layered core golf ball wherein each core layer comprises its own specific hardness gradient in addition to an overall specific hardness gradient from one core layer to the next. The inner core layer comprises a plurality of hardnesses of from about 50 Shore C to about 90 Shore C,... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100160086 - Multilayer core golf ball having hardness gradient within and between each core layer: The present invention is directed to an improved multi-layered core golf ball wherein each core layer comprises its own specific hardness gradient (positive, negative or a combination) in addition to an overall specific hardness gradient from one core layer to the next. In a first embodiment, the golf ball comprises... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100160087 - Golf ball: A golf ball 2 includes a spherical core 4, a mid layer 6 positioned outside the core 4, and a cover 8 positioned outside the mid layer 6. The core 4 includes a spherical center 10 and an envelope layer 12 positioned outside the center 10. The center 10 has... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100160088 - Swivel golf tee: A swivel golf tee includes an anchoring device for fastening to the ground, and a bracket pivoted to the anchoring device and having two arms disposed at two opposite lateral sides and terminating in a respective ball cup for holding a golf ball. The bracket is turned about the anchoring... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20100160089 - Appapatus and method for providing golfing information: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of collecting data associated with a golfing activity, comparing a condition associated with a first golfing event with the data associated with the golfing activity to determine an occurrence of the first golfing event, and performing... Agent: Gene I. Su

20100160090 - Method and system for determining positional information on a golf course: One embodiment of the invention sets forth a method, which includes receiving a first position on the golf course, searching for a first predetermined code representative of a first region on the golf course on a first image, and determining a first minimum distance and a first maximum distance between... Agent: Gene I. Su

20100160091 - Golf clubs and golf club heads having interchangeable rear body members: Golf club heads (e.g., drivers, fairway woods, wood-type hybrid clubs, or the like) according to at least some example aspects of this invention include: (a) a heel; (b) a toe; (c) a crown; (d) a sole; (e) a striking face; (f) a cavity, wherein the cavity is at least partially... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100160092 - Hockey shooting training device: A hockey shooting training device comprises an elongate track and a carriage having a puck shaped an engaging member supported thereon for engagement by a hockey stick to be displaced along the track with the carriage from a starting end to a target end. Wheels on the carriage have a... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20100160093 - Basketball training device: There is a basketball training device configured to block a low-arc basketball shot. The training device includes a base configured to support the basketball training device. The training device also includes a plurality of support members adjustably coupled to an end of the base and configured to extend horizontally therefrom... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20100160094 - Sports equipment with resonant core bodies and method for production thereof: Provided is a shaped body for production of sports equipment such as tennis, squash, and badminton rackets, golf clubs, hockey and ice hockey sticks and baseball bats. The shaped body includes a core of two tubular resonant bodies, running parallel to and spaced at a distance from each other and... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - San Diego

20100160095 - Ball bat with governed performance: A ball bat includes a barrel in which one or more stiffening elements or damping elements, or both, are located. The stiffening or damping elements may be positioned at a variety of locations, and may have a variety of configurations, for selectively reducing the barrel's performance without appreciably increasing the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20100160096 - Panel of a ball for a ball game, a ball, and methods of making the same: The present invention provides a panel of the ball for ball game, said panel has the folding portion and the opposite folding portion on its periphery, which are opposite to each other and made of the same continuous material. The folding portion and the opposite folding portion of said leather... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20100151953 - Electronic game table with multifunction legs: Electronic game tables with multifunction legs are described. In one implementation, an electronic multiplayer game table includes a tabletop with player stations for an electronic betting game. Multifunction legs physically support the periphery of the tabletop, while electronic components for playing the betting game are mounted in the multifunction legs.... Agent: Digideal Corporation

20100151954 - Portable bowling game kit: A bowling game kit suitable for use on a sand beach comprises a backstop and an elongated flexible rectangular sheet of material connected at one end of the backstop and having one or more target holes adjacent the backstop, which can be in register with buckets situated in depressions formed... Agent: Howson & Howson LLP

20100151955 - Global positioning system use for golf ball tracking: Systems and methods are disclosed for integrating a transmitter into an object, such as a golf ball, that becomes active upon the motion of the object. This transmitter sends a signal to a receiver that is configured to determine the location of the object. The receiver is the able to... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100151956 - Methods, apparatus, and systems to custom fit golf clubs: Embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems to custom fit golf clubs are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation

20100151957 - Imaging apparatus and golf diagnosis apparatus: An imaging apparatus comprising an illumination device adapted for illuminating a movable object during at least two timely spaced time intervals, an image sensor device adapted to capture an image of the movable object, and a control unit adapted for coordinating the illumination device and the image sensor device in... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20100151958 - Golf swing training device: In general, this disclosure relates to a golf swing training device, comprises three interoperating portions, the first portion of the device being an active area, the second being a collapsible frame, and the third being a golf club-like device and carriage. The collapsible base frame allows the active area to... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20100151959 - Golf club shaft adapter system and golf club incorporating the same: Golf club adapters and golf clubs incorporating such adapters are provided that allow a golf club shaft to be coupled to a golf club head at different orientations for varying the golf club lie angle and/or face angle. The adapter has a first portion coupleable to the golf club shaft... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100151961 - Golf club head: A golf club head (20) having optimized inertial properties and center of gravity is disclosed. The golf club head (20) preferably has a volume between 300 cubic centimeters and 500 cubic centimeters. The golf club head (20) has a center of gravity located less than 1.7 inches from an exterior... Agent: Callaway Golf C0mpany

20100151960 - Golf club head having a composite face insert: A golf club head having a composite face insert attached to a metallic body is provided. The club head preferably has a volume of at least 200 cc and provides superior durability and club performance. The face insert includes prepreg plies having a fiber areal weight (FAW) of less than... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20100151963 - Golf club head with progressive face stiffness: A metal wood golf club head adapted for attachment to a shaft, with a body comprising of a first body portion and a second body portion, each portion constructed of a different density material. Combining a high density material in the first body portion with a low density material in... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100151962 - Two piece club construction apparatus and method: A method and apparatus for forming a golf club head is disclosed. The golf club head includes a first and second part, each of which may include more than one portion of the golf club head. The two parts are operatively connected using a single, continuous, non-planar weld line. Preferably,... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100151964 - Golf club head with stiffening and sound tuning composite member: A golf club head with sound tuning composite members forming at least a portion of the surface of the golf club head is disclosed herein. The composite members being a composite layer made out of a sandwiched core layer that is interposed inside the midsection of the composite member to... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100151966 - Golf ball and method of manufacturing the same: There are provided a golf ball molding die capable of manufacturing a golf ball having a satisfactory surface condition, and a golf ball manufactured by using the die. The present golf ball molding die comprises at least two die bodies within which a cavity for molding a golf ball is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100151965 - Rubber composition for golf ball and golf ball: The object is to provide a rubber composition for a high-strength golf ball which has a high hardness, high resiliency, excellent processability and improved filler dispersibility, by adjusting each of the Mooney viscosity, the molecular weight distribution and the n value (the rate-dependent index for Mooney viscosity) of a high-cis-polybutadiene... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20100151967 - Cationic polyurea cover compositions for a multi-layer golf ball: Golf balls that have at least one layer formed from a cationic polyurea material. In particular, the compositions of the invention, which include a polymer backbone including urea linkages with cationic groups, may be formed from an isocyanate-containing component and an isocyanate-reactive component, at least one of which includes precursor... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100151968 - Cationic polyurea cover compositions for a multi-layer golf ball: Golf balls that have at least one layer formed from a cationic polyurea material. In particular, the compositions of the invention, which include a polymer backbone including urea linkages with cationic groups, may be formed from an isocyanate-containing component and an isocyanate-reactive component, at least one of which includes precursor... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100151970 - Cationic polyurea cover compositions for a multi-layer golf ball: Golf balls that have at least one layer formed from a cationic polyurea material. In particular, the compositions of the invention, which include a polymer backbone including urea linkages with cationic groups, may be formed from an isocyanate-containing component and an isocyanate-reactive component, at least one of which includes precursor... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100151969 - Golf ball with high moisture barrier properties: Golf balls including at least one layer formed from high moisture barrier nanocomposite compositions that have increased moisture resistance and generally include a nanocomposite including an intercalated clay and at least one resin having a barrier property, a polyolefin resin, and a compatilizer.... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100151971 - Method for painting golf balls: The present invention relates to a method for painting dimpled golf balls that are moving along an endless conveyor. The method employs paint guns operating at a relatively low atomizing air pressure, and make contact with the golf ball surface at an angle between about 5° to 60°. The paint... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100151972 - Ball marker for golf: Provided is a ball marker for golf, including: a round-shaped case having an opening; a disc spring fit to the round-shaped case; a thin film printed circuit board and a flexible printed circuit cable seated on a top surface of the disc spring, the thin film printed circuit board having... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100151973 - Method of training a golfer to correctly position their hands on a golf club grip: A method of using a golf training aid to train a golfer to correctly position their hands on the grip of a golf club. The training aid is temporarily engaged on the grip in the correct position by aligning a positioning aid on the training aid with the ball-striking of... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20100151974 - Hand accessory: A hand accessory designed to harness power from strong areas of the hand and channel stress away from weaker areas by means of anchors pressing into tough fleshy areas with connecting structure capable of leveraging a handle away from sensitive bony areas, relocating fleshy areas into supporting and insulating positions,... Agent: Sandra Lee Lipkin A Law Corporation

20100151975 - Grip for sporting equipment, method of using a grip for sporting equipment, and method of forming a grip for sporting equipment: A grip for a piece of sporting equipment has a unitary body formed from a relatively flexible material. The grip includes a pair of gripping surfaces comprising a plurality of slots for receiving a users fingers. The gripping surfaces are offset to ensure that the user properly grips the piece... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100151976 - Fletching system and method therefor: A fletching system and method that allows for quick and easy attachment of a fletching member to an arrow or cross bolt shaft provides a slotted fletch holder adapted to receive a fletching member projecting therethrough and an external end cap member to provide frictional fit engagement with a flanged... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20100144455 - Device and system for obtaining, analyzing, and displaying information related to a golfer's game play in real-time: The present invention achieves technical advantages as a device and system utilizable during actual golf game play configured to obtain information related to a player's golf swing and game performance. This information may include information generated by a sensor(s) located on or within a golf club or worn by the... Agent: Law Office Of Robert C. Klinger

20100144456 - Golf club and accessory system utilizable during actual game play to obtain, anaysis, and display information related to a player's swing and game performance: A golf club and accessory system utilizable during actual golf game play configured to obtain information related to a player's golf swing. This information may include information generated by a sensor(s) located on or within a golf club, which information is configured to be sent to a golf appliance, such... Agent: Law Office Of Robert C. Klinger

20100144457 - Golf club with slope indicator: A golf club incorporates a slope indicator on its shaft to enable a golfer to estimate the slope of a putting green. When the golf club is placed on the ground, the slope indicator indicates a degree of slope. The golfer may engage a lock for the slope indicator. Engagement... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20100144458 - Golf swing alignment training device: Golfers need and desire to practice and perfect their golf swings, and proper alignment of the golfer's body and the arc that the head of club travels are critical in this regard. The golf swing alignment training device provided allows golfers of different height and body proportions, and using a... Agent: Oleh Weres

20100144459 - Golf club and method for adjusting properties thereof: According to one aspect of the invention, a golf club includes: a head having a hosel having a hosel hole; a shaft; a shaft case having a shaft insertion hole to which one end of the shaft is inserted and configured to be inserted to the hosel hole; and a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20100144460 - Iron-type golf clubs: A set of iron-type golf clubs includes long irons with channel back configurations and short irons with cavity back configurations. The rear face configurations transition from channel backs through to pure cavity backs for increased performance continuum for the set. Additional design parameters for the set may also be systematically... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100144461 - Golf club head: A golf club head of this invention includes a head body, a weight member attached to the head body, and a fixing unit to fix the weight member at one of a plurality of attachment positions of the head body. The plurality of attachment positions are located on a plane.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100144463 - Multiple material driver-type golf club head: A driver-type golf club head having a composite crown is disclosed herein. The driver-type golf club head includes a subassembly including a cast face component and a stamped sole component, and a compression molded crown component which is bonded to the subassembly. Each of the subassembly and the crown component... Agent: Callaway Golf C0mpany

20100144462 - Multiple material fairway-type golf club head: A fairway-wood type golf club head having a composite crown is disclosed herein. The fairway-wood type golf club head comprises a cast subassembly and a compression molded crown component which is bonded to the subassembly. Each of the subassembly and the crown component has a non-overlapping bonding flange that bonds... Agent: Callaway Golf C0mpany

20100144464 - Adaptive golf ball: The present invention relates to a smart golf ball comprised of one or more mantle layers juxtaposed between an inner core and outer cover, where the core, the mantle layer(s), and/or the cover are further comprised of a ferrofluid, a magnetorheological fluid, an inverse magnetorheological fluid, and/or a magnetorheological elastomer,... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20100144465 - Foam-core golf balls: A golf ball with a controlled moment of inertia and controlled spin rate is disclosed. In one embodiment, the golf ball comprises a core, an intermediate layer and a cover, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a foamed highly neutralized polymer, has its specific gravity reduced to less than about 1.05,... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100144466 - Golf ball core having medium positive hardness gradient and high surface hardness: A golf ball includes a single solid core having a surface hardness and a geometric center hardness. The core has an outer diameter of about 1.5 to 1.62 inches. An outer cover layer formed from a polyurea or polyurethane has a first hardness, and an inner cover layer, disposed between... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100144467 - Compositions useful in golf balls: Curable polyurethane, polyurea and polyurethane/polyurea compositions that are particularly useful as the outer layer and/or at least one inner layer of golf balls, cured compositions, golf balls comprising the cured composition, and methods of increasing the initial velocity of a golf ball using the curable polyurethane, polyurea and polyurethane/polyurea compositions... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20100144468 - Painted golf ball and method for producing the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a painted golf ball which is excellent in the gloss and the evenness of the paint thickness as well as the adhesion of the paint film to the golf ball body. The method for producing the golf ball of the present... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100144469 - Training bat with visual feedback of proper swing: A training baseball bat has an internal movable magnet that accelerates to the end of the bat when swung at a fast enough speed. As the magnet moves it passes through a coil that is connected to one or more LEDs so that the LEDs momentarily flash as the magnet... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20100144470 - Sporting article and method of making the same: A method of making a sporting article includes: providing a plurality of sheet segments each of which is made of a multi-layered material that includes a thermoplastic foamed layer, and a thermoplastic non-foamed layer laminated on the foamed layer, each of the sheet segments having at least one connection end;... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20100144471 - High bounce structure: sky ball: A play ball having a high bounce capacity of at least 20 vertical feet and as much as 50 or 75 vertical feet is formed of a solid, elastomer thermoplastic polyurethane having a wall thickness of 3-5 mm, containing gas at a pressure preferably greater than 0.65 kfg/cm2.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100137070 - Prop rod for golf club: A stand assembly for a golf club includes a plunge rod positionable within the club shaft and club head and displaceable between a retracted position and an extended position. In the extended position, at least a portion of the plunge rod is extended to an exterior of the golf club.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100137071 - Relative position between center of gravity and hit center in a golf club: A golf club head is provided with a center of gravity positioned within a partial ellipsoid defined in an impact reference frame that has its origin at the hit center of the face of the golf club head. The majority of the partial ellipsoid is located toward the golfer from... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100137072 - Golf club head: A golf club head 2a of a first aspect is provided with a head body h1a, a double-stick tape w1, and an adherend s1a bonded to the head body h1a by the double-stick tape w1. When an average thickness of a lower part of the adherend s1a is defined as... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100137073 - High moment of inertia wood-type golf clubs and golf club heads: Wood-type golf club heads include: (a) a club head body including heel, toe, crown, sole, and weighted rear portions; and (b) a variable thickness ball striking face. The club head body parts and weighted portion(s) may be arranged such that the club head has a moment of inertia about a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100137074 - Iron-type golf clubs: An iron-type golf club includes a conventional-weight section, a lightweight section and a heavyweight section. The conventional-weight section includes the hitting face and at least a portion of the hosel. The heavyweight section, made of a denser material than the conventional-weight section, includes the sole and an optional back flange.... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100137076 - Golf ball: Golf ball 2 has a spherical core 4, a mid layer 6 covering this core 4, a reinforcing layer 8 covering this mid layer 6, and a cover 10 covering this reinforcing layer 8. Base polymer of this mid layer 6 includes an ionomer resin as a principal component. Base... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100137075 - Golf balls having a low modulus hnp layer and a high modulus hnp layer: The present invention is directed to golf balls comprising a dual-layer core and a cover. The core comprises a center having a center hardness of 50 Shore C or greater and formed from a low modulus HNP composition, and an outer core layer having a surface hardness of 75 Shore... Agent: Acushnet Company

20100137077 - Golf ball position marking device and method of use: A golf ball position marking device enables a user to reliably and unobtrusively mark the position of a golf ball on a putting green. The golf ball position marking device comprises a putting green contact surface, a marker material dispensing port, a marker material dispensing actuator and a marker material... Agent: Kevin Farrell Pierce Atwood

20100137078 - Retention of weighting on an athletic striker: Apparatus to add weight to an athletic ball striking bat, having a taper along the bat length, comprising in combination a sleeve sized to extend about the bat at the taper location, the sleeve having associated retention means to engage the bat at a zone along said taper to resist... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20100137079 - Method and device for sports skill training: A device for use by a player to improve his handling of an object on a surface, comprising at least one camera positioned such that the field of view of the at least one camera may capture an image of the surface and the object; a processor providing an image... Agent: Frank J Bonini Harding Earley Follmer & Friailey

20100137080 - Game animal escape impedance device: A projectile-based system for impeding the escape of a game animal, whereby the projectile is an arrow or a crossbow bolt, the system comprising an environmental engagement device, a retention device, and a tether, with the environmental engagement device suitably adapted to pass through the game animal and thereafter to... Agent: Anthony D. Pellegrini Rudman & Winchell, LLC

20100137081 - Ball: A ball includes a ball body having a spherical surface, and at least one projection extending from the surface of the ball body. The projection extends in such a manner that the projection forcibly separates a laminar boundary layer generated on the surface of the ball body, and transitions the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP