Patents Assigned to STX, LLC
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Patent number: 7032246Abstract: A shin guard is disclosed having a protective pad enclosed by two pieces of fabric, one piece of a first color and one piece of a second color, and a sleeve portion having first and second colors. The shin guard is reversible such that in a first configuration the shin guard has substantially the first color on an exterior of the guard and in a second configuration the shin guard has substantially the second color on the exterior of the shin guard. In another embodiment, the pad is, disposed between an exterior sleeve of a first color and an interior sleeve of a second color different from the first color.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Laura LeMire
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Patent number: 6960144Abstract: A variable hand placement sports equipment handle, such as a lacrosse stick handle, hockey stick handle, or field hockey stick handle, that includes a shaft and at least one overlay attached to the shaft at a location of frequent hand placement. The overlays are specially located and structured to provide the shaft with structural and tactile features that correspond to and accommodate the way in which a player moves his hands along the shaft and grips the shaft. The structural and tactile features, such as ribs, grooves, and hourglass and conical shapes, are located on the shaft to enhance a player's control of the shaft when performing various skills.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2002Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr.
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Patent number: 6953405Abstract: A field hockey stick including a head, a shaft adjoining the head, and a vibration damper. The shaft has a first end proximate the head and a second end opposite the first end. The vibration damper is disposed in the second end of the shaft and includes a core and a jacket surrounding the core. The material of the core has a higher specific gravity than the material of the jacket.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventors: Laura E. LeMire, Kenneth E. Sherman
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Patent number: 6926627Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining compliance of a lacrosse stick head with dimensional specifications that require a minimum allowable width between the two sidewalls of the head as measured at a designated distance from the stop member of the head. The apparatus has a width equal to the minimum allowable width of the lacrosse stick head, and a length perpendicular to the width. The length is equal to the designated distance. The apparatus is adapted to simultaneously measure the designated distance and the minimum allowable width. In a specific implementation, the apparatus has an upper rectangular portion connected to a lower triangular portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventors: Laura E. LeMire, Robert E. Griebe
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Patent number: 6923739Abstract: A lacrosse head having protrusions on its top and/or bottom edges, which improve ball control. Preferably, the protrusions on the top edge protrude toward the interior of the lacrosse head and the protrusions on the bottom edge protrude away from the interior of the lacrosse head. In a further embodiment, the lacrosse head has a top protrusion disposed on the top edge of a sidewall, and a bottom protrusion on disposed on the bottom edge of the sidewall, such that any height of the lacrosse head frame, inclusive of the top protrusion and the bottom protrusion, does not exceed a specified sidewall height, even though the sum of the height of the sidewall, the height of the top protrusion, and the height of the bottom protrusion, measured separately and nonlinearly, exceed the specified sidewall height.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventors: Gary C. Gait, Dale W. Kohler
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Patent number: 6916259Abstract: A lacrosse head having a frame and an articulated member moveably coupled to the frame. In one embodiment, a lacrosse head includes a stop member; a first sidewall connected to the stop member; a second sidewall connected to the stop member opposite the first sidewall; and a scoop connected to the first sidewall and the second sidewall opposite the stop member, wherein the first sidewall includes a first member integrally connected to the stop member and the scoop, and a second member moveably coupled to the first member. The second member can include pocket thread openings for attaching a pocket to the head. The lacrosse head can also include a stiffening member attached to the scoop and a sidewall of the frame, and a collared male plug for joining the frame to a hollow shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventors: Dale W. Kohler, Kenneth E. Sherman
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Patent number: 6910976Abstract: A multi-component lacrosse stick head, made of at least two materials, including a base lacrosse head structure of one material and one or more overlays made of one or more other materials strategically located on the base structure. The base structure and overlays provide particular performance characteristics for the lacrosse head. An embodiment of the invention includes a base lacrosse head structure, and at least one of a ball stop overlay, a sidewall overlay, an edge overlay, a thread opening overlay, and a scoop overlay. The overlays are affixed to the base lacrosse head structure by, for example, insert molding, over molding, reaction injection molding, spray application, rotational molding, dual extrusion, casting, or an interference fit.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr.
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Patent number: 6863620Abstract: An adjustable customized golf club, e.g., a golf putter, as well as a method for using the club, wherein the club has a head, a striking surface attachment, and one or more lock fittings that positively lock the striking surface attachment to the head. The striking surface attachment is one of several selectable attachments, each with different performance characteristics, e.g., rebound. The one or more lock fittings positively lock the striking surface attachments to the putter head such that the club components are firmly fixed, yet are still quickly removable and replaceable. In a representative embodiment, the striking surface attachment can be removed by hand and without tools. A golfer quickly changes the striking surface attachments without losing the feel of the prior striking surface attachment, thereby enabling the golfer to realistically compare the differences between the attachments before selecting and playing with a particular striking surface attachment.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr.
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Patent number: 6852047Abstract: A method and apparatus for dampening the rebound of a lacrosse head pocket. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a frame having a thread hole and an aperture proximate to the thread hole. The aperture creates a moveable structure of the frame. The moveable structure encompasses at least a portion of the thread hole. The moveable structure is adapted to flex relative to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr.
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Patent number: 6641492Abstract: A lace system for a lacrosse stick that restrains thongs from sliding, maintains desired thong tension, enables convenient adjustment of thong length (in the pocket) and thong tension, provides a pocket that enhances ball control, and allows players to cut excess thong lengths to minimize their flapping around during play. The lace system includes specially shaped, sized, and positioned thong holes in the stop member of a lacrosse head, and a lace lock attached to the lacrosse stick below the thong holes. The thong holes in the stop member are not lined up in a straight line, are non-circular in shape, and are slightly smaller than the size of the thongs. The lace lock includes channeling holes and/or channels that align and compress the thongs, ridges that grip the thongs, a compression strap that locks the thongs tightly against the ridges, and a means for attaching the lace lock to the lacrosse stick.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2003Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Laura LeMire
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Patent number: 6533686Abstract: A lace system for a lacrosse stick that restrains thongs from sliding, maintains desired thong tension, enables convenient adjustment of thong length (in the pocket) and thong tension, provides a pocket that enhances ball control, and allows players to cut excess thong lengths to minimize their flapping around during play. The lace system includes specially shaped, sized, and positioned thong holes in the stop member of a lacrosse head, and a lace lock attached to the lacrosse stick below the thong holes. The thong holes in the stop member are not lined up in a straight line, are non-circular in shape, and are slightly smaller than the size of the thongs. The lace lock includes channeling holes and/or channels that align and compress the thongs, ridges that grip the thongs, a compression strap that locks the thongs tightly against the ridges, and a means for attaching the lace lock to the lacrosse stick.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Laura LeMire
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Patent number: 6520875Abstract: An expandable mesh web for use with a lacrosse stick head. The head includes a frame member having first and second side walls, each side wall having a proximal end and a distal end. The frame member further has a scoop extending between the distal ends of the side walls, and a stop extending between the proximal ends of the side walls. The expandable mesh web is attached to the frame member, and includes at least two ball channel walls that extend longitudinally along the length off the frame member and are generally thicker and more dense than the rest of the expandable mesh web.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2000Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: STX LLCInventor: William C. Crawford
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Patent number: 6500079Abstract: A variable hand placement sports equipment handle, such as a lacrosse stick handle, hockey stick handle, or field hockey stick handle, that includes a shaft and at least one overlay attached to the shaft at a location of frequent hand placement. The overlays are specially located and structured to provide the shaft with structural and tactile features that correspond to and accommodate the way in which a player moves his hands along the shaft and grips the shaft. The structural and tactile features, such as ribs, grooves, and hourglass and conical shapes, are located on the shaft to enhance a player's control of the shaft when performing various skills.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Sr.
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Patent number: 6447410Abstract: A head for a lacrosse stick that includes a web for receiving a ball, the web being attached to a frame member of the head, and one or more tube-like woven or non-woven polymer shooting string elements extending transversely between side walls of the frame member and through the frame member, to facilitate pocket adjustment. The head may also include one or more tube-like woven or non-woven polymer thong elements extending longitudinally between the scoop and the stop of the frame member.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: STX LLCInventor: William C. Crawford
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Patent number: 6117022Abstract: A golf club having an elastomer head which is easily constructed of relatively inexpensive components making the club particularly suitable as an introductory golf club for teaching the game of golf to youths, is described. The club comprises a metal insert configured to a desired shape, an elastomeric material molded around the metal insert, and a pad at the back of the striking head. A shaft is attached to the metal insert.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1994Date of Patent: September 12, 2000Assignee: STX LLCInventors: William C. Crawford, Jackie L. Davis
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Patent number: D519176Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Jr.
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Patent number: D523101Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Richard B. C. Tucker, Jr.
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Patent number: D474823Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Dale W. Kohler
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Patent number: D496083Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Dale W. Kohler
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Patent number: D499780Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: STX, LLCInventor: Dale W. Kohler