US 12,134,018 B2
Baseball grip training device
Edward Arthur Sullivan, III, Metairie, LA (US); and Andrew Rand Avans, Metairie, LA (US)
Assigned to Rip Grip Pro, LLC, Metairie, LA (US)
Filed by Rip Grip Pro, LLC, Metairie, LA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/747,257.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/189,805, filed on May 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0370873 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 69/00 (2006.01); A63B 102/18 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 69/0002 (2013.01) [A63B 69/0059 (2013.01); A63B 2069/0008 (2013.01); A63B 2102/18 (2015.10)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A grip training device for use with a bat, comprising:
(a) a base adapted to contact a bat grip, the base having a width along an x-axis, a height along a y-axis, and a thickness along a z-axis, wherein the base includes:
(i) one or more shaped surfaces on an upper face of the base, wherein each shaped surface extends from a front end to a back end and is adapted to receive one or more of an index finger and a middle finger of a user only, wherein the thickness from the front end to the back end of each shaped surface is at least equal to a distance between a first knuckle and a second knuckle from a tip of the index finger or the middle finger of the user; and
(ii) a bat contacting surface on a lower face of the base that opposes the upper face of the base, wherein the bat contacting surface is adapted to contact the bat grip, wherein the height of the base separates the bat contacting surface and the shaped surfaces by a predetermined distance that lifts the first knuckle from the tip of one or more of the index finger and the middle finger of the user away from the bat grip without lifting the remaining fingers to place greater reliance on the remaining fingers to hold the bat grip during a swing of the bat, wherein the bat contacting surface is connected to the front end and the back end of each shaped surface by a front side surface and a back side surface of the base, respectively, wherein the front side surface and the back side surface both have convex shapes; and
(b) a retaining member extending from the base shaped to surround one or more of the index finger and the middle finger of the user.