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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:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
May. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen J Davis, Washington Crossing, PA (US);
Richard Janes, Burlington Twp., NJ (US);
Assignee:
Prince Sports Group, Inc., Bordentown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ; A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
273 / ;
Abstract
A sports racquet includes a power ring, spanning the throat region of the head, which has an arcuate bearing surface facing away from the outer head portion of the racquet. The bearing surface bows in the direction of the stringing area. The lower ends of the main strings wrap about the bearing surface of the power ring, and the strings extend outwardly in a fan shape configuration to frame. The power ring has the effect of shortening the center strings, and lengthening the outlying main strings, so that the power provided by the strings is more uniform over the string bed.