Imperial Chemical Industries Limited

Bruce M McIntosh

Nigel W Hayman

Francis S Smith

Scott Davidson

A monofilament or multifilament sports racket string, of a thermoplastic aromatic polyetherketone and preferably polyetheretherketone, such string preferably having an elongation not exceeding 5% when a tensile stress of at least 100 Newtons/mm.sup.2 is applied along the axis of the string and preferably having a dynamic stiffness, measured at a mean stress of 175 Newtons/mm.sup.2, of not greater than 1.150 times the dynamic stiffness measured at a mean tensile stress of 80 Newtons/mm.sup.2.

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North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Bruce M McIntosh