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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. 12, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Siegfried Kuebler, Uberlingen, DE;
Frank Garrett, Barrington, IL (US);
Assignee:
Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
473549 ;
Abstract
In a racket for tennis or the like games having a frame for receiving stringing and comprising a possibly hollow profile bar, and a handle end which is of polygonal cross-section and which is wound around with a grip strip and whose blank is provided at the corners of the cross-section with longitudinal edges separating each two longitudinal surfaces, the longitudinal edges are raised relative to their longitudinal surfaces. Preferably for that purpose longitudinal ribs extend at the longitudinal edges, the ribs being formed on the handle blank or being fixedly connected thereto in another manner.