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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1988
Filed:
May. 19, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsuyuki Awano, Hamamatsu, JP;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
273 / ;
Abstract
A racket includes a head portion having a peripheral notch located therein. A string protector comprised of a connecting section having first and second resilient tongues is situated within the peripheral notch. Each of the tongues has an elongated projection extending therefrom such that the projections oppose each other. The connecting section also has tubular string guides extending therefrom for receiving a racket string. The force of the racket strings tends to push the string protector into the peripheral notch of the head portion, thereby forcing the resilient tongues toward each other so as to close over the strings.