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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. 30, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Krone, Portsmouth, RI (US);
Leslie E Smith, Middletown, RI (US);
Assignee:
Quadrax Corporation, Portsmouth, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
273 / ; 273 / ;
Abstract
A sports racket frame including a head portion and a handle portion formed from unidirectional high strength fibers impregnated with thermoplastic resin in the form of a sheet containing a plurality of adjacent strips in which the unidirection of the fibers in the strips are at different angles. The strips are made from unidirectional composite thermoplastic tape, and the sheet is rolled into an elongated hollow tube. Yoke components are also constructed from the composite material and the rolled hollow tube and yoke components are formed in the shape of a racket frame.