(19)
(11) EP 1 060 767 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
23.04.2003 Bulletin 2003/17

(43) Date of publication A2:
20.12.2000 Bulletin 2000/51

(21) Application number: 00305069.7

(22) Date of filing: 15.06.2000
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: A63B 49/02
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 17.06.1999 GB 9914090

(71) Applicant: Dunlop Slazenger Group Limited
Surrey GU15 3YL (GB)

(72) Inventor:
  • Perry, Richard G.
    Guildford, Surrey GU1 2LN (GB)

(74) Representative: Stebbing, Timothy Charles 
Haseltine Lake & Co., Imperial House, 15-19 Kingsway
London WC2B 6UD
London WC2B 6UD (GB)

   


(54) Improved games racket


(57) A games racket having a head providing a frame for a bed of strings, the strings entering holes in the frame, and at least part of the frame having a cross-section which is concave in a region where the strings enter the holes, whereby the actual area (A) occupied by the bed of strings exceeds its visible area (P) when viewing the racket face on. By increasing the actual strung area in this way, the ball speed obtainable when striking the ball can be increased, compared with a conventional racket of equivalent overall size.






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