HOCKEY STICK FROM ONE HOLLOW INITIAL TUBE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A63B59/00 

FIELD: sport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to producing hockey stick from composite structure. Handle is made from hollow tube (60, 72) with at least one pair of matched openings (62), which pass through opposite areas of said tube wall. With each pair of matched openings connected is tubular cork (66), whose opposite ends are placed in said pair of openings and pass inside through hollow tube. Cork forms channel (58), which passes through said pair of openings and contains peripheral wall (74), which passes through opposite areas of hollow tube walls. Peripheral wall has opposite ends, which are fastened to opposite areas of hollow tube wall. Handle of stick consists of many layers of carbon fibres, which are held together by epoxy binding agent. Fibres in each layer are parallel to each other. Stick handle in made elongated, in general of hollow rectangular configuration with upper and lower ends, front, back and pair of lateral surfaces.

EFFECT: increase of durability and reduction of stick weight.

18 cl, 9 dwg