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Article: North Carolina Inventors Develop Laminated Ball Bats
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 23, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 23 -- Marc Christian Davis of Hickory, N.C., Walter Dennis Davis of Granite Falls, N.C., and Wallace Jay Davis of Lenoir, N.C., have developed a laminated ball bats.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to laminated ball bats and a methodology for making the same. The disclosed technology provides for a laminated blank suitable for machining into a laminated bat having a generic bat shape (such as a bat consisting of a handle and a barrel where the handle has a smaller diameter than the barrel) that offers greater flexibility in changing the bat's weight distribution. Using lamination technology, ...