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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas E. Reinke, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Walter G. Stelzer, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 3/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 3/700 ;
Abstract
A curve ball is provided by a sphere having a non-perforated outer surface formed by a pair of hemispheres joined at an equator and having a pole axis extending through the center of the sphere perpendicularly to the plane of the equator. One of the hemispheres has at least one arcuate groove. The ball curves toward the groove when thrown in a direction along and coincident with the plane of the equator and spinning about the pole axis.