Games racquets
AssigneeDunlop Limited
InventorsFrank William Popplewell, Frank Raymond Houghton
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Abstract
The invention provides a frame for a games racquet, e.g. a badminton racquet, formed from a plastics material reinforced with a circumferentially-extending tubular metal member. The tubular metal member may be visible in the surface of the product, e.g. running the length of the inner periphery of the head of the frame.
Claims28
A frame for a games racquet having a head portion and a handle portion, the head being at least partly constructed of plastics material in which is incorporated a circumferentially-extending tubular metal reinforcement having a portion of its outer circumference defining substantially the entire inner periphery of the finished head portion, the tubular metal reinforcement having flanged stringing apertures with the flanges extending radially outwardly of the head of the frame and the plastics material defining substantially the entire outer periphery of the head portion.
A badminton racquet frame having a head portion and a handle portion, said head portion comprising a loop of moulded plastics material on the outer periphery of the head reinforced with a tubular metal member running around the loop, the member being partially embedded in the plastics material and partially visible and defining the inner periphery of the loop, the member being of substantially `D` shape in transverse cross-section but with the straight side of the `D` being arched away from the curved portion of the `D,` the curved portion of the `D` being that part of the member that is visible.
A frame for a games racquet, said frame comprising a head portion and a handle portion, said head portion being in the form of a loop having injection-moulded plastics material defining substantially the entire outer periphery thereof and secured to a tubular metal reinforcement, said tubular metal reinforcement running circumferentially around substantially the whole loop and being positioned so that a portion of its circumference is visible and defines substantially the entire inner periphery of said loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.