US 12,447,384 B2
Lacrosse stick head mounting system
Garth Thompson, Baltimore, MD (US)
Filed by Garth Thompson, Baltimore, MD (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/223,354.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/201,159, filed on Aug. 5, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2017/0036080 A1, Feb. 9, 2017
Int. Cl. A63B 59/20 (2015.01); A63B 102/14 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 59/20 (2015.10) [A63B 2102/14 (2015.10)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lacrosse stick head mounting system comprising:
a protruding end extending from a base of a lacrosse stick head and passing directly through a throat of and being internal to a handle of a lacrosse stick, the protruding end having an angled end and comprising a wedge tightening screw tunnel extending from the base, the lacrosse stick head having a head longitudinal axis, and the base of the lacrosse stick head contacting the handle directly;
a wedge tightening screw insertable into the wedge tightening screw tunnel through the base of the lacrosse stick head, the head of the wedge tightening screw recessed into the base of the lacrosse stick head; and
a wedge end cap internal to the handle of the lacrosse stick and comprising an end cap and threads to tighten the wedge tightening screw, the angled end of the protruding end to contact the end cap of the wedge end cap, wherein the protruding end of the lacrosse stick head, the wedge tightening screw, and the wedge endcap being insertable directly into an end of the handle of the lacrosse stick along a head base longitudinal axis substantially coaxial with the head longitudinal axis and, as the wedge tightening screw is tightened through the threads of the wedge end cap, the wedge cap tightening screw to draw the wedge end cap towards the angled end of the protruding end of the lacrosse stick head, to move the wedge end cap into an offset position relative to the protruding end of the lacrosse stick head, and to wedge the protruding end of the lacrosse stick head and the wedge endcap inside of the handle and without overlap of the lacrosse stick head with the handle external to the handle,
wherein a cross-section of the handle comprises one of:
square,
triangular,
oval, and
polygon; and
wherein an angle of the angled end relative to a head longitudinal axis comprises one of:
30°, and
45°.