Patent ID: 6334825
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
An end cap assembly for closing the open end of a tubular ball bat having a thin generally cylindrical barrel wall, said assembly comprising a cylindrical sleeve sized to slidably and closely fit into the barrel of the bat, said sleeve providing an annular cap seat at one end of said sleeve, and an annular groove on an exterior annular surface of said sleeve for defining an annular glue chamber with the barrel, a glue fill port extending through said sleeve from the interior of said sleeve to said annular groove, said sleeve also having an internal annular recess for receiving an annular lock collar on a depending skirt of a bat end cap, said recess being axially spaced from said annular cap seat, and a bat end cap having an axially extending annular skirt and an annular lock collar on the exterior surface of said skirt, said collar being closely received in said annular recess in said sleeve for affixing said cap to said sleeve.