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(11) EP 0 345 397 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
31.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/44

(43) Date of publication A2:
13.12.1989 Bulletin 1989/50

(21) Application number: 88311544.6

(22) Date of filing: 06.12.1988
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4: A63B 49/00, A63B 49/02
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 03.12.1987 US 128381
26.08.1988 US 236832
26.09.1988 US 249337

(71) Applicant: Marrello, Hugo
Thornhill Ontario L3T 1W7 (CA)

(72) Inventor:
  • Marrello, Hugo
    Thornhill Ontario L3T 1W7 (CA)

(74) Representative: Coxon, Philip et al
Eric Potter & Clarkson St. Mary's Court St. Mary's Gate
Nottingham NG1 1LE
Nottingham NG1 1LE (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
     
    Remarks:
    A request for recognition of the priority03.12.87 US 128,381 has been filed on the grounds of Rule 85 (2) (3) EPC.
     


    (54) Tennis racquet


    (57) A racquet for tennis or the like, which comprises a frame with an appended handle with a plurality of guides mounted in spaced relationship along the frame in its plane. Each guide has an outwardly oriented portion concave in a plane normal to the plane of the frame and each guide is constructed of a self-lubricating and shock absorbent material. A string laced around the guides forms a ball impact grid within the frame. In one embodiment the guides are spools positioned between a pair of laterally opposed members forming the frame and in another embodiment the guides are bosses fixed to the outside of the frame with tangential apertures through the frame. In a further embodiment the guides are spools resting in sockets, or in a circumscribing channel, on the frame in its plane.







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