US PATENT SUBCLASS 473 / 513
.~.~ Having pocket with laterally facing opening (e.g., lacrosse stick, jai alai cesta, etc.)

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473 /   HD   GAMES USING TANGIBLE PROJECTILE

505  DF  PLAYER-HELD DEVICE FOR BOTH PROJECTING AND CATCHING AERIAL PROJECTILE; PART THEREOF OR ACCESSORY THEREFOR (I.E., COMBINED PROJECTOR-CATCHER DEVICE) {5}
510  DF  .~ Both projector and catcher are pocketed {3}
513.~.~ Having pocket with laterally facing opening (e.g., lacrosse stick, jai alai cesta, etc.)

DEFINITION

Classification: 473/513

Having pocket with laterally facing opening (e.g., lacrosse stick, jai alai cesta, etc.):

(under subclass 510) Subject matter wherein the projector part and the catcher part are combined into a single closed-bottom receptacle which is used both to catch a projectile moving through the air and to propel or launch the projectile back into the air and wherein the implement includes an elongated handle member attached to and extending outwardly from the closed bottom receptacle such that the open portion of the receptacle faces in a direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the handle member, whereby the implement as a whole has a general configuration somewhat similar to a spoon-shaped utensil.

(1) Note. The closed-bottom receptacle which constitutes both the projector and catcher parts of the implement may be quite large relative to the projectile and this receptacle may itself have a secondary closed-bottom receptacle formed therein for holding and retaining a projectile at rest therein. Many lacrosse sticks are exemplary of this type of implement. When the implement is manipulated to project a projectile, a projectile resting in the secondary receptacle is moved out into the main receptacle and projected therefrom, mainly by centrifugal forces. When the implement is manipulated to catch a projectile moving through the air, the implement is manipulated so that the bottom of the main receptacle intercepts (thereby stopping) the flight of the

projectile, whereupon the projectile drops by gravity into the secondary holding receptacle so that it may again be projected.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

124, Mechanical Guns and Projectors,

5, for a projecting implement, per se (e.g., a sling, etc.), which is held in the hand of a person and caused to throw a missile into or through the air by a centrifugal or swinging movement of the person's arm.