Title: Occupational games equipment

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1. Occupational games equipment, comprising:

a bat, including a generally disk-shaped head having two opposite faces, and a generally radially outwardly extending handle secured to the bat head;

an elongated, substantially rigid but somewhat resilient rod member having two opposite ends;

means securing said rod member adjacent one end thereof to the bat head so as to project radially outwardly therefrom, substantially in diametrical opposition to said handle, said rod member having means defining an attachment point, distally of said bat head, adjacent the opposite end of said rod member;

a resilient ball;

a flexible but axially substantially inextensible string element having two opposite ends, said string element being connected at one said end to said ball and at the other said end to said attachment point, said string element being of such length that when said string element is fully extended, said ball tethered thereby is positioned to alternatively strike either face of said bat head generally centrally of such face.

2. The occupational games equipment of claim 1, wherein:

said securing means is constituted by respective releasably connected elements on said bat head and said rod member one end, so that the rod member may be detached from and reattached to said bat head at will.

3. The occupational games equipment of claim 2, wherein:

said bat head is constituted by a metal plate having means providing a radially outwardly opening socket pressed therein for axially receiving said one end of said rod member with an interference fit, so that the rod member is frictionally, removably held in said socket, said socket and said one end of said rod member thereby providing said releasably connected elements of said securing means.

4. The occupational games equipment of claim 3, wherein:

said handle includes means defining at least one radially inwardly projecting spigot;

said metal plate further includes a radially outwardly opening handle-mounting socket pressed therein for each said spigot;

each respective spigot being axially received in a respective handle-mounting socket with an interference fit for mounting the handle to the bat head.

5. The occupational games equipment of claim 4, wherein:

said handle is constituted by a U-shaped length of wire having two said spigots, each being axially received in a respective handle-mounting socket with an interference fit, thereby mounting the U-shaped wire handle to the metal plate bat head.

6. The occupational games equipment of claim 1, wherein:

said attachment point comprises an eye formed at said opposite end of said rod member.

7. The occupational games equipment of claim 1, wherein:

said bat head is of generally oval figure, with the greatest diameter thereof oriented generally transversally relative to the length of said rod member.

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Inventors: Pretorius, Willem J. (Roodepoort, ZA)

Application Number: 773409
Filing Date: 1977-03-01
Publication_date: 1978-11-28
Assignee: Lenbo Investments (Proprietary) Limited (Johannesburg, ZA)
Primary Class(es): 273/330
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1017376	Feb, 1912	Brandt	273/97.
1538720	May, 1925	Mercer	273/97.
1944628	Jan, 1934	Barker	273/97.
2089652	Aug, 1937	Kelly	273/97.
2105462	Jan, 1938	Brinkman	273/97.
2792225	May, 1957	Coursey	273/97.
3157400	Nov, 1964	Schmid	273/97.
4040623	Aug, 1977	Ott	273/98.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Grieb, William H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Cushman, Darby & Cushman