Frame for sports racket

Abstract

A sports racket frame shaped to extend around a ball-hitting region covered by a string network has an outer perimeter region forming an anchorage for the strings, which otherwise clear the frame inward of their anchorage. Support regions of the frame extending inward from the outer perimeter region on opposite sides of the plane of the string network provide structural support for the anchorage region. The support regions are formed to provide clearance from the string network, and the clearance of the support regions has a depth measured from an inner perimeter region of the frame outward toward the anchorage region that, at least in lateral side regions of the frame extending along lateral sides of the string network, is at least 0.25 inches. The supporting sides are formed with triangular shaped openings leaving the remaining panel sections of the sides inclined to form a truss.

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