Patent ID: 7252607

Claim:
An anchor fitting for a ball which includes, in its operative configuration with respect to a ball, two shoulder defining bodies of a substantially rigid material which each defines a hole therethrough and which, when operatively positioned with their respective holes in register with the hole in the ball, form two pairs of shoulder formations that extend substantially perpendicularly with respect to one another and substantially radially with respect to the hole in the ball and that abut the interior side of the wall forming the ball; and an anchor body of a substantially rigid material which defines an elongate shank portion and a head at one end of the shank portion, the shank portion operatively extending through the hole in each shoulder defining body and the hole in the ball and the head bearing against one shoulder defining body for holding the two shoulder defining bodies in position, and in which the anchor body defines for the assembly of the ball an engagement formation which permits engagement by an elongate assembly element in a configuration in which, with the assembly element passing through the respective holes in the shoulder defining bodies and with the shoulder defining bodies and the anchor body separately displaced through the hole in the ball, the assembly element may be pulled externally of the ball for locating the shoulder defining bodies and the anchor body in their operative configurations with respect to the ball; and an anchoring formation which permits anchoring a required one of a cord, a tail and a stem for a tail, thereto.