Flight-Enhanced Ball

Abstract

A flight-enhanced ball has an exterior liner, a series of texturizing recesses, and a ball body. The exterior liner is superimposed onto the ball body and used to provide a textured or friction-reducing surface. Additionally, the texturizing recesses traverse into the exterior liner to provide a textured surface that facilitate throwing the ball in a straight line at high velocities. The ball body is designed to be semi-deformable to act as a shock absorber. Thus, the ball body enables the ball to absorb the impact forces generated by a collision with an athletes' body.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A flight-enhanced ball comprising:
 an exterior liner;   a plurality of texturizing recesses;   a ball body;   the exterior liner being superimposed onto the ball body;   the plurality of texturizing recesses traversing into the exterior liner; and   the plurality of texturizing recesses being distributed across the exterior liner.   
     
     
         2 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 1  comprising:
 the ball body comprising a plurality of structural layers; and 
 an exterior layer being positioned in between an interior layer and the exterior liner, wherein the interior layer and the exterior layer being from the plurality of structural layers. 
 
     
     
         3 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 2  comprising:
 the plurality of structural layers comprising a deformable bladder; and 
 the deformable bladder enveloping a damper core. 
 
     
     
         4 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 2  wherein a durometer of each of the plurality of structural layers being different. 
     
     
         5 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 1  comprising:
 a friction-reducing coating; and 
 the friction-reducing being superimposed onto the exterior lining. 
 
     
     
         6 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of texturizing recesses being formed by a plurality of shapes. 
     
     
         7 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of texturizing recesses having a plurality of recess depths. 
     
     
         8 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of texturizing recesses having a plurality perimeters. 
     
     
         9 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 1  comprising:
 a damper core; 
 the damper core being mounted within an interior compartment of the ball body; and 
 a center of mass being positioned in between the damper core and the exterior lining. 
 
     
     
         10 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 9  comprising:
 a core suspension assembly; and 
 the core suspension assembly being mounted in between the ball body and the deformable core. 
 
     
     
         11 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 10 , wherein the core suspension assembly is operatively coupled to the deformable core, and wherein the core suspension assembly dynamically repositions the center of gravity to modify flight characteristics: 
     
     
         12 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 10 , wherein the core suspension assembly is operatively coupled to the deformable core to act as an inertial damper. 
     
     
         13 . The flight-enhanced ball as claimed in  claim 10 , wherein a pressure of 70 psi compresses the ball body by 25%.