Hockey stick handle device

Claim 1

In a hockey stick including an elongated, generally-longitudinally-flexible handle having a substantially rectangular cross-section and a laterally-extending terminal blade extending vertically into the general plane of the rectangularly cross-sectioned handle, the improvement comprising, in combination, manually-operable, torque-increasing means optionally adjustable at a player's option during play when effecting a puck-propelling movement in a combined rotary and sweeping manipulation of the hockey stick, said torque-increasing means comprising a relatively short rigid sleeve member including an inner surface portion circumposed about the handle and an outer surface portion to be gripped by the player and being of a length short enough not to interfere with the general-longitudinal-flexibility of the hockey stick handle, said sleeve member being constructed and arranged to be optionally freely slidable along and non-rotatably mounted on said hockey stick handle and optionally-positionable therealong prior to a puck-propelling manipulation and increasing the hockey stick cross-section at the position at which said sleeve member is disposed, said sleeve member having means for manually-displacing at least one inner surface portion of said sleeve member for frictionally engaging and locking the sleeve member relative to a confronting portion of said hockey stick handle so the sleeve member does not freely slide along the hockey stick handle whereby prior to effecting a puck-propelling manipulation the player can readily adjustably position the sleeve member and is afforded increased torque-generating means about the longitudinal axis of the hockey stick handle so that the increased torque can be correspondingly directed to the hockey stick blade.