Patent ID: 7111730

Claim:
A single bat carrier for storing and transporting a baseball or softball bat, comprising; an oblong, tubular bat bag having a tubular main portion, a circular closed bottom portion, and a top end portion forming a cap that can be opened and closed with a sealing means and a hinge mechanism to maintain contact between the top cap end and rest of the bag; a heavy-duty cylindrical tube having approximately the same dimensions as the tubular bat bag, inserted inside the bat bag, with a bottom end cap permanently attached to the tube, and a removable top end cap disposed inside the top cap of the bat bag forming a top end cap assembly; a disk of impact reducing material, equal in diameter to the heavy-duty cylindrical tube disposed inside the heavy-duty tube at the junction of the bottom end of the tube and the bottom end cap; a means for securing the top end cap assembly to the top end of the tube, and a hinge mechanism to maintain contact between the top end cap assembly and the tube when the top end cap assembly is open; an adjustable shoulder strap attached to the side of the outer surface of the bat bag; a smaller strap disposed adjacent to the shoulder strap to accommodate a key ring, and an attachment means for hanging the bat carrier from a support such as a chain link fence; a third strap attached to the opposite side of the bat bag with a snap closure used for holding a baseball or softball glove.