Patent ID: 9744417
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A63B,B29C,B29K,B29L

Claim:
1. A hockey-stick blade extending from a heel section to a toe section, comprising: a core element including a top edge, a bottom edge, a heel-end edge, and a toe-end edge; a hosel extending from the heel section, the hosel defining an upper surface and a lower surface extending parallel to the upper surface; a reinforcing frame running along the outside perimeter of the upper surface of the hosel, along a perimeter of the top edge, the toe-end edge, and the bottom edge of the core element to form the exterior edges of the blade, and along the perimeter of the lower surface of the hosel, wherein the reinforcing frame defines an internal continuous opening, such that the internal continuous opening extends around the perimeter of the blade; a front-facing wall attached to or integral with at least one of the reinforcing frame and the core element; and a rear-facing wall attached to or integral with at least one of the reinforcing frame and the core element.