Patent ID: 8241154
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. An assembly comprising: a field hockey stick having a shaft with a free end; a removable cover for said shaft of said hockey stick comprising a cap configured and dimensioned for mounting on said free end of said shaft, wherein said cap is cup-shaped and comprises a planar bottom wall with an outer peripheral edge and a generally tubular upstanding side wall having a first end and a second end, said first end being attached to said outer peripheral edge of said bottom wall; and a flexible, resilient membrane-like tubular sheath having a thickness of 1/16″ to ¼″ which is configured and dimensioned to be rolled over itself to form a rolled configuration and having two opposite ends, one of which is coupled to said second end of said side wall of said cap and the other of which defines a free end, and wherein said tubular sheath is dimensioned and configured so that it can be unrolled longitudinally onto and along said shaft of said hockey stick with said cap abutting and mounted on said free end of said shaft and said sheath being dimensioned and configured to afford a tight friction fit over said shaft when unrolled and which can be rolled longitudinally in the opposite direction along said shaft of said hockey stick towards said free end of said hockey stick and said cap, to permit removal of said cover from said hockey stick and wherein said cap has a thickness which is greater than the thickness of said sheath.