Ferrari Importing Company

Ronald H Carr

Harry M Ferrari

A sports ball retrieval and dispensing device includes a ball retrieving and dispensing receptacle and a handle constructed of respective pluralities of separate parts having respective assembled conditions in which the receptacle parts are mounted to one another and the handle parts are mounted to one another and coupled to the assembled receptacle so as to enable use of the device in ball retrieving and dispensing modes of operation. The receptacle and/or handle also are convertible to respective disassembled conditions in which at least some receptacle parts are taken apart from one another and/or at least some handle parts are taken apart from one another such that the device occupies a reduced volume of space so as to enable packaging and shipping of the device.

Sports ball retrieval and dispensing device with multi-part receptacle and handle

An enhanced fishing line has a unique combination of breaking strength and elongation properties to provide a high level of flexibility, a high ultimate knot breaking strength, and a high level of breaking toughness that is defined as the actual work per unit volume of material required to break the material. The line is a monofilament construction made of a synthetic polymeric material such as a polyamide, polyester, polyethylene, or fluropolymer and manufactured by an extrusion process followed by a drawing process where the extruded diameter is between 1.1 and 1.4 times the diameter of the finished line after drawing.

Fishing line with enhanced properties

A sports ball retrieval and storage device includes a receptacle, a pair of support members and a lid. The receptacle is in the form of a molded one-piece body made of substantially rigid material and having a plurality of side walls and a bottom grate integrally connected together so as to define an open top and an interior chamber of the receptacle. The side walls and bottom grate are formed of respective upper and lower annular perimeter members and laterally spaced apart elongated members extending between and integrally connected at opposite ends with opposite portions of the upper and lower annular perimeter members. The side walls converge toward one another from the open top to the bottom grate of the receptacle and thereby provide the molded one-piece body of the receptacle with a tapered configuration permitting receptacles of multiple devices to nest with one another. The elongated members of the bottom grate are spaced apart at a distance slightly less than the diameter of a tennis ball so as to define at least one opening therebetween through which a compressed tennis ball can forced into the interior chamber. The support members are pivotally mounted to the receptacle and convertible relative thereto between stand and handle positions. The lid is mounted to the receptacle for opening and closing the open top thereof.

Sports ball retrieval and storage device having molded one-piece tapered receptacle with pivotal lid and support members

A racquet stringing machine includes a base, a racquet mounting frame attached to the base for mounting and securing a racquet to be strung with string, a string clamping device which holds the clamped end of the string in place relative to the racquet frame while tension is being applied to the tensioning end of the string and a string tensioner having a string tensioner frame mounted to the base in offset relation to the racquet mounting frame, a tension setting mechanism movably mounted to the string tensioner frame for applying a desired amount of tension to the strings and a string gripper mounted to the tension setting mechanism for holding the tensioning end of the string while tension is applied. The racquet stringing machine is improved by providing a rotational string guide mounted in a fixed relation to the string gripper which guides the tensioning end of the string into the string gripper such that the line of action of the force from the string being tensioned against the string gripper remains the same regardless of the elevation of the clamped end of the string relative to the string gripper. In addition, the tension in the string on the string tensioner side of the string guide is the same as the string tension in the string on the string clamp side of the string guide.

Tensioning device for stringing sports racquets having a string guide

The invention relates to strings for stringed musical instruments, fishing equipment, and sports racquets which are exposed to a suitable solvent or suitable elasticizer compatible with the materials contained in the fibers, bonding resins, or coating resins in the strings, such that partial dissolution of the material in the suitable solvent occurs or absorption of the suitable elasticizer occurs so as to increase the elasticity, increase the flexibility, increase the ductility, or increase the resiliency of the strings.

Method for enhancing the properties of a string used in a stringing

A racket frame, such as for a tennis racket, has a head portion, a handle portion and a throat portion extending between and interconnecting the head and handle portions. The head portion encompasses an open region and has a plurality of stringing holes for attaching stringing to the head portion and across the open region. The throat portion is in the form of a pair of legs in a generally V-shaped configuration. Different cross-sectional dimensional relationships are incorporated in the racket frame to tailor racket frame stiffness. A first cross-sectional dimensional relationship relates to location of the maximum cross-sectional height of the racket frame in a lower extent of the head portion thereof so as to define a dual reverse tapered profile along the cross-sectional height of the racket frame. A second cross-sectional dimensional relationship relates to provision of an abrupt transition in an inwardly facing surfaces of the head portion of the racket frame so as to define a dual tapered profile along the cross-sectional width of the racket frame head portion. A third cross-sectional dimensional relationship relates to variation of cross-sectional height to width along the throat portion of the racket frame so as to define greater throat portion height nearer to the head portion and greater throat portion width nearer to the handle portion.

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Plum Boro, PA, United States of America

Ronald H Carr