Warrior Sports, Inc.

Warrior Lacrosse, Inc.

Stryke Lacrosse, Inc.

Other

David K Morrow

Jesse Hubbard

Matthew M Winningham

Andrew Maliszewski

Richard J Janisse

Dale W Kohler

Bruce Huffa

Thomas H Burns

Craig M Herman

Sean J Slater

David Falge

Kevin Morrow

Phillip Naumburg

Tina Tse

Salvatore LoCascio

Zachary W Currier

Mark Roberts

A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The pocket can include a perimeter flange constructed from special materials and/or a perimeter flange including intermittent voids along an outer edge so that the perimeter flange stretches when the pocket is in a loaded state with the lacrosse ball therein, thereby providing dampening to the pocket when a lacrosse ball exerts force upon the pocket in the loaded state.

Lacrosse head pocket and related method of manufacture

A lacrosse head pocket and a related method of manufacture are provided to facilitate consistent, repeatable and/or custom manufacture of lacrosse equipment. The pocket can be constructed from multiple different sections joined with one another, or can be knitted, weaved or otherwise assembled on an automated assembly machine from strands, and/or can be formed as a unitary textile material having regions/sections with different physical and/or mechanical properties. The pocket can be integrally molded within portions of a lacrosse head to eliminate manually constructed connections between the pocket and lacrosse head. The lacrosse head can be integrally molded with a lacrosse handle to provide a one-piece unitary lacrosse stick. Related methods of manufacturing also are provided.

Methods for the individualized design and manufacture of lacrosse heads using point of sale additive fabrication. In one aspect, a subscription-based method includes digitizing a plurality of lacrosse heads having different three-dimensional attributes, storing the resulting digital object data into a digital lacrosse head library, transmitting the digital lacrosse head library to a subscriber, recording the number of lacrosse heads formed by the subscriber using additive fabrication, and generating an invoice based on the number of formed lacrosse heads. In another aspect, a method includes displaying images of lacrosse heads on a user interface, enabling the user-specified selection of discrete components of a lacrosse head, enabling the user specification combination of the discrete components, superimposing the user-specified combination to form a digital object representation of a lacrosse head, forming a tangible three-dimensional lacrosse head by additive fabrication, and transferring the tangible three-dimensional lacrosse head to the consumer.

Systems and methods for 3D printing of lacrosse heads

Lacrosse head

A lacrosse head includes a base, a scoop, and a pair of sidewalls. The sidewalls include upper and lower rims and further include a dual flare configuration. The first flare is in a rear portion and is characterized by the upper rims of the sidewalls being spaced closer together to one another than the lower rims. The second flare begins from approximately the middle portion of the sidewalls and generally throughout the forward portion and is characterized by the upper rims of the sidewalls being spaced further apart from each other than the lower rims.

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Metamora, MI, United States of America

David K Morrow