Hand Grip For A Sports Appliance

Abstract

A hand grip for a sports appliance provides a hollow handle part, which is made of rubber or plastics, with a fitting hole for being inserted with a rod portion. A medium layer is embroidered with a specific figure or pattern and is integrally joined to the surface of the handle part at the time of the handle part being formed such that the specific figure or pattern embosses on the surface of the handle part.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The present invention is related to a hand grip for a sports appliance and particularly to a handle grip of a golf club, tennis racket or badminton racket.

[0003] 2. Brief Description of the Related Art

[0004] Technique for making the sports appliance has been upgraded and demand of the user to quality of the sports appliance is stricter. In order to meet the demand of the user to quality related to subjective factors such as design of shape, color and brand and the demand of the user to quality related to objective factors such as material, strength, volume, center of gravity and moment, the manufacturers and the designers endeavor to research and development for improving the sports appliance. It is known that the user has to hold handle of the club or the racket while playing golf, tennis or badminton and it is very important that comfortable feeling while the user holding the handle is very helpful for the movement of hitting ball once the reaction force transmits to the hand via the handle.

[0005] Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the traditional handle 10 usually is made of rubber or plastics by means of plastic injection molding with FIG. 11 such as directional indication, special figure and symbol or trademark. Thus, a forming mold with preset recesses and projections has to be prepared so as to obtain the FIG. 11. However, the rubber handle 10 provides unfavorable feature of liquid absorption so that sweat out of the hand caused by sport taking is unable to be absorbed and vaporized. As a result, it is easy for the hand to slip from the user's grasp while hitting the ball. Further, it is easy for the rubber handle 10 to become deformed and slit with aging. In addition, the recesses and projections in the mold for creating the FIG. 11 are unable to change unless they are reworked or a new mold is replaced. Under this circumstance, the production cost increases disadvantageously.

[0006] The preceding deficiencies are undesirably experienced by the user while the rubber handle 10 is in use. Meanwhile, the deficiencies are also improved targets endeavored by the designers of the manufacturers.

[0007] Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, surface of the handle 10 is adhered a gauze layer 12 at the time of fabricating the handle 10 to increase both slip resistance and toughness thereof for overcoming problems concerning insufficient slip resistance and aging of material, which exist with the traditional rubber handle 10. But, arrangement of the gauze layer 12 results in the directional indication or the specific figure is unable to be formed at the surface of the handle 10 such that the directional indication or the figure has to be printed or sprayed onto the handle 10 independently afterward to complicate the production process and increase tedious work. Furthermore, the gauze layer 12 attached to the handle 10 makes the appearance and color matching dull to seriously influence consumer purchase desire.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0008] In order to solve the preceding problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a hand grip for a sport appliance and the hand grip has a preset figure or pattern with beautiful appearance and anti-slip and comfortable held surface.

[0009] Accordingly, the hand grip for a sport appliance according to the present invention provides a hollow handle part, which is made of rubber or plastics, with a fitting hole for being inserted with a rod portion. A medium layer, which is embroidered with a specific figure or pattern, is adhered to the surface of the handle part or is implicit under the surface of the handle part at the time of the handle part being formed such that the specific figure or pattern is capable of embossing on the surface of the handle part.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0010] The detail structure, the applied principle, the function and the effectiveness of the present invention can be more fully understood with reference to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

[0011] FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the conventional hand grip for a golf club;

[0012] FIG. 2 is a semi-sectional view of the conventional hand grip for a golf club shown in FIG. 1;

[0013] FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another conventional hand grip for a golf club;

[0014] FIG. 4 is a semi-sectional view of the conventional hand grip shown in FIG. 3;

[0015] FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a hand grip for a golf club according to the present invention illustrating a medium layer being detached from the handle part;

[0016] FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a hand grip for a golf club according to the present invention illustrating the medium layer being joined to the handle part; and

[0017] FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a hand grip for a golf club according to the present invention illustrating another embodiment thereof.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0018] Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, a hand grip for a sports appliance according to the present invention includes a hollow handle part 20 and a medium layer 30. The handle part 20 is made of rubber or plastics with a fitting hole 21 for fitting with a rod portion 22 of the sports appliance. The medium layer 30 is embroidered with a specific figure or pattern and the medium layer 30 is a thin layer sheet made of such as gauze or rubber sheet capable of being embroidered with threads 31. The handle part 20 is formed with the medium layer 30 in a way of the medium layer 30 being adhered to or being implicit at the surface of the handle part 20 and the figure embosses on the surface of the handle part 20.

[0019] The thread 31 with a specific figure or pattern can be a embroidery distributed with points, lines or a plane based on where the user holds the handle part 20 as shown in FIG. 7. Alternatively, a beautiful totem or figure, a personalized mark, character or trademark can be embroidered instead. Besides, a single color or multiple color threads can be used for embroidering the character, figure or pattern. The preceding beautiful personalized pattern, figure, character and trademark are belonged to non-technical arrangement. Of course, the threads 31 embossing on the surface of the handle part 20 to show such as direction or position being held and provide functions such as anti-slip, liquid absorption and comfort feeling can be arranged technically. Further, the threads 31 are capable of increasing toughness of the handle part 20 and overcoming problem of material aging. Furthermore, once the figure or pattern has to be changed, it is only necessary to change the embroidered threads 31, for instance, the threads 31 can be processed with computerized embroidering, such that the same mold tool for forming the handle part 20 can be used repeatedly instead of the mold tool of the conventional fabrication way being changed all the time.

[0020] It is appreciated that a hand grip for a sports appliance according to the present invention provides the threads 31 with preset figure or pattern embossing on the surface of the handle part 20 for the handle part 20 being anti-slip, liquid-absorbed and comfortably held. In addition, the beautiful pattern in association with color matching is capable of enhancing value and quality of the sports appliance.

[0021] While the invention has been described with referencing to a preferred embodiment thereof, it is to be understood that modifications or variations may be easily made without departing from the spirit of this invention, which is defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A hand grip for a sports appliance comprising: a hollow handle part being made of rubber or plastics with a fitting hole for being inserted with a rod portion; and a thin medium layer being embroidered with at least a specific pattern and attached to said handle part; characterized in that said medium layer integrally formed with the outer surface of said handle part at the time of said handle part being fabricated such that the specific pattern embosses on the outer surface of the handle part.

2. The hand grip for a sports appliance as defined in claim 1, wherein said medium layer is made of cloth, rubber or a thin sheet capable of being embroidered with threads for producing said pattern.

3. The hand grip for a sports appliance as defined in claim 1, wherein the threads are distributed over said medium layer to constitute a plurality of points, a plurality of lines or a plane and the embroidered pattern provides a share of a totem, figure, mark or character with a single color or multiple colors.