201 |
Alloy blends of polyurethane and rubber |
US10802137 |
2004-03-17 |
US20040186213A1 |
2004-09-23 |
Donald
Allan
Sandusky; Edwin
L.
McInnis |
The present invention relates to a rubber formulation suitable for making barrier articles, such as inflatable sports balls or bicycle tubes, that resist the passage of gases, such as air, particularly as applicable to tennis balls, and more particularly to the rubber formulation which contains substantially amorphous, millable polyurethane alloyed with natural and/or synthetic rubbers. |
202 |
Practice ball |
US10216145 |
2002-08-09 |
US06746351B1 |
2004-06-08 |
Robert I. Goodman |
A ball is provided for use in training that collapses when hit or kicked and then resiliently reforms itself to its original shape, dissipating kinetic energy and allowing use of the ball in a restricted geographical area. In one aspect, the ball of the invention includes incisions extending substantially through a shell, which deform upon striking, such that the ball and collapses venting air and dissipating kinetic energy. In another aspect, the ball of the present invention includes incisions extending only partially through the outer shell, contributing to the deforming properties of the ball when struck. |
203 |
STREET HOCKEY BALL |
US10152698 |
2002-05-22 |
US20030220162A1 |
2003-11-27 |
Charles
T.
Quinn |
A ball for use in playing street hockey having a substantially smooth spherical shell with a hollow interior cavity partially filled with a liquid and a plurality of prills to less than one-half of the volume of the interior cavity. The specific gravity of the prills is less than that of the liquid to minimize splash of the liquid and to improve the ability of the liquid to remain in the lower portion of the ball as it travels over a playing surface. |
204 |
Street hockey ball |
US10152698 |
2002-05-22 |
US06645098B1 |
2003-11-11 |
Charles T. Quinn |
A ball for use in playing street hockey having a substantially smooth spherical shell with a hollow interior cavity partially filled with a liquid and a plurality of prills to less than one-half of the volume of the interior cavity. The specific gravity of the prills is less than that of the liquid to minimize splash of the liquid and to improve the ability of the liquid to remain in the lower portion of the ball as it travels over a playing surface. |
205 |
Elastic spherical hand muscle developer |
US09985715 |
2001-11-06 |
US20030087728A1 |
2003-05-08 |
Sung-Yeng
Chen |
An elastic spherical hand muscle developer is constructed having an elastic spherical body formed of an inner layer and an outer layer, an air chamber defined within the spherical body and surrounded by the inner layer, an air valve embedded in the spherical body and adapted for pumping air into the air chamber, and at least one handle formed of a part of the inner layer and outer layer of the spherical body, each handle defining a through hole for the insertion of the hand. |
206 |
Peptides which enhance transport across tissues and methods of identifying and using the same |
US09573252 |
2000-05-18 |
US06521737B1 |
2003-02-18 |
Daniel Joseph O'Mahony |
A method of identifying a peptide which permits or facilitates the transport of an active agent through a human or animal tissue. A predetermined amount of phage from a random phage library or preselected phage library is plated unto or brought into contact with a first side, preferably the apical side, of a tissue sample or polarized tissue cell culture. At a predetermined time, the phage which is transported to a second side of the tissue opposite the first side, preferably the basolateral side, is harvested to select transported phage. This modified phage is amplified in a host. This cycle of events is repeated (using the transported phage produced in the most recent cycle) a predetermined number of times to obtain a selected phage library containing phage which can be transported from the first side to the second side. Lastly, the identity of at least one peptide coded by phage in the selected phage library is determined to identify a peptide which permits or facilitates the transport of an active agent through a human or animal tissue. |
207 |
Pressureless tennis ball |
US614383 |
1996-03-12 |
US6030304A |
2000-02-29 |
Frank M. Simonutti; Peter R. Tolley; William E. Dillon; Jerry Matheny |
A pressureless tennis ball comprises a novel core which is formed from a compound containing rubber and a plastomer defined as a copolymer of ethylene and one or more alkenes. |
208 |
Gravity teaching aid |
US803336 |
1997-02-20 |
US5810602A |
1998-09-22 |
Daniel James Menelly |
A gravity teaching aid in the form of a tennis ball which includes a magnet for retaining the tennis ball against a metal surface against the downward pull exerted by the earth's magnetic field. |
209 |
Light weight, soft feel hand ball |
US526674 |
1995-09-11 |
US5639085A |
1997-06-17 |
Brian P. Feeney; R. Dennis Nesbitt |
A ball comprising a hollow sphere which has an inner diameter of about 1.23 inches and an outer diameter of about 1.88 inches and a thickness of about 0.325 inches. The sphere is fabricated of an elastomeric material weighing between about 50 and 60 grams, and a compression between about 0.170 and 0.220 and a drop rebound of about 50-53 inches. |
210 |
Ball-like beverage container |
US722673 |
1996-09-30 |
US5638982A |
1997-06-17 |
Donald Spector |
A container adapted to store a beverage and, when empty, to function as a playball. The container includes a spherical shell formed of a flexible synthetic plastic material having a tubular neck projecting therefrom on which is received a screw-on cap. The neck is retractable into the shell whereby the neck then assumes a re-entrant form and the cap is then frictionally held therein flush with the shell. In a storage mode of the container, the shell is filled with a beverage and is sealed by the flush cap. To switch to an active mode, the shell is squeezed and the resultant internal pressure produced by the beverage causes the cap to pop out and project the neck so that the cap can be unscrewed to dispense the beverage. In the play mode, the shell is empty and the air therein is sealed by the cap which is depressed to be again flush with the shell, the container now being a pneumatic play ball. |
211 |
Takraw balls |
US314807 |
1994-09-29 |
US5566937A |
1996-10-22 |
Boonchai Lorhpipat; Boonsakdi Lorpipatana |
A takraw ball having a relatively soft, or elastically deformable, surface and conventional rebound characteristics. The takraw ball may be woven from composite strips, one component of which is elastically deformable material and forms the ball surface and the another component of which is a springy material. The elastically deformable material and the springy material are selected to produce a desired rebound characteristic. The strips have a wide variety of shapes and compositions. In an alternative embodiment the springy material component forms the ball surface and the elastically deformable material provides reinforcement for the strip. |
212 |
Rubber composition for hollow core of pressureless tennis ball |
US690216 |
1991-04-24 |
US5225258A |
1993-07-06 |
Yoshinobu Nakamura; Kuniyasu Horiuchi |
A rubber composition suitable for producing hollow cores of pressureless tennis balls and superior in rebound properties and feeling of striking balls by racket, which contains, as a rubber component, 30 to 100% by weight of a polybutadiene rubber having a content of cis-1,4 bond of at least 97% by weight and a Z-average molecular weight of 5.times.10.sup.6 to 2.times.10.sup.7 and 70 to 0% by weight of other diene rubbers. |
213 |
Pressureless tennis ball |
US708317 |
1991-05-31 |
US5209471A |
1993-05-11 |
Kuniyasu Horiuchi; Yoshinobu Nakamura |
A pressureless tennis ball which has excellent rebound properties and produces a satisfactory feeling of striking retained over a long period of time, the tennis ball having a hollow spherical core made from a rubber composition containing a rubber and 5 to 60 parts by weight of polyethylene per 100 parts by weight of the rubber. |
214 |
Tennis ball |
US399129 |
1989-08-28 |
US4947466A |
1990-08-07 |
Kuniyasu Horiuchi; Yoshinobu Makamura |
A hollow tennis ball which comprises a hollow core of elastic material which encloses an interior space, and a layer of substantially felt-like material which is applied to the outer surface of the hollow core. The overall weight of the hollow tennis ball is substantially between 30 and 54 grams. The pressure in the interior space is substantially from 0 to 0.7 kg/cm.sup.2 higher than atmospheric pressure. The thickness of the hollow core is substantially between 2.2 and 4.5 mm. The forward deformation of the hollow tennis ball is substantially from 6.5 to less than 12 mm under loading force of 3.5 and 18 pounds. The return deformation is substantially from 10.5 to less than 15 mm after it has deformed to 2.54 cm under a loading force of 18 pounds. |
215 |
Game ball |
US253081 |
1988-10-03 |
US4880233A |
1989-11-14 |
Chul-Ho Song |
A cover replicating the appearance, texture, and surface features of a regulation baseball enclosing a flexible, hollow, spherical core. The core is fabricated from a pair of substantially similar semispherical shells made of a homogeneous, waterproof composition and bonded one to another at the circumferential edges. The composition from which the core is formed includes by weight 30-40 percent styrene butadiene rubber, 16-20 percent natural rubber, 33-37 percent calcium carbonate, and 5-9 percent silica powder, as well as diphenyl guaniden, rubber cure accelerator, and traces of zinc oxide and sulfur. The outer diameter of the core is approximately 2.6-3.0 inches with a wall thicknesses in the range of approximately 0.08-0.16 inches. The core with the cover assembled thereon has a weight of approximately 2.5-3.5 ounces, less than that of a regulation baseball, and an outer diameter substantially equivalent thereto. The cover includes two pieces of synthetic leather secured at the edges with raised herringbone stitching in the pattern of a regulation baseball. Optionally, a layer of twine may be tightly wound in random fashion about the core and the outer cover may be adhered to the structure beneath it using an adhesive. Due to its flexibility and lighter weight in relation to a regulation baseball, the disclosed substitute baseball affords an enhanced margin or safety to young and inexperienced players. |
216 |
Game ball |
US226236 |
1988-07-29 |
US4861028A |
1989-08-29 |
Donald E. Williams |
A softball including a hollow spherical core and a leather cover. The core is formed from a mixture of low density polyethylene and ethylene acid copolymer in which the amounts of the low density polyethylene and the ethylene acid copolymer can be adjusted to vary the coefficient of restitution of the softball from 0.47 to 0.52 at a hardness of Shore D 43 to 51. |
217 |
Game ball |
US135822 |
1987-12-21 |
US4830370A |
1989-05-16 |
Robert M. Schlesinger |
A game ball of the type having a flexible resilient wall defining a space inside the ball that is fluid tight and contains a compressible fluid is given a break signalling capability by placing a small quantity of very fine particulate material in that space inside the ball. |
218 |
Method of making tennis balls |
US676484 |
1976-04-13 |
US4151029A |
1979-04-24 |
James Jones-Hinton |
A method of making hollow playballs, particularly tennis balls, having a fiberous e.g. fabric layer, and a flexible polymeric layer in the wall of the ball. The method involves forming laminate blanks of the fiberous material and polymer, edge-joining one or more blanks to form a closed hollow body and hot molding the hollow body in a mold of the desired configuration. A novel playball is also provided. |
219 |
Pressureless tennis ball |
US822988 |
1977-08-08 |
US4145045A |
1979-03-20 |
Terence W. Pocklington |
A pressureless tennis ball based on an elastomeric composition including natural rubber, cis 1,4-polybutadiene, and a copolymer of ethylene and at least one unsaturated monocarboxylic acid containing from three to eight carbon atoms, said copolymer containing up to 30 percent by weight of said acid. |
220 |
Practice golf ball |
US676654 |
1976-04-13 |
US4006908A |
1977-02-08 |
Tieko Minami |
A spherical structure constituting a practice golf ball and integrally formed of a tough synthetic resin has a polar axis and has: a circular equatorial vane perpendicular to the polar axis; a tubular hub disposed coaxially around the polar axis; a plurality of meridian vanes of substantially semicircular shape joined at their chordal parts to the hub part and spaced at equal angular intervals; and a middle band engirdling the spherical structure around the circumference of the equatorial vane, the semicircular outer edges of the meridian vanes and the middle band forming the outer spherical contour of the practice golf ball. |