String straightener for tennis racket

A straightener that is self adjustable to fit onto and coact with the strings in the head of a tennis racket, said head having any one of a variety of the different woven patterns having different spacings between the strings forming the spaced apart main and cross strings in a tennis racket, the woven patterns each having a thickness defined by a generally planar front side surface and a generally planar back side surface, said straightener comprising a substantially rigid body having a planar bottom surface that has a sliding contact on the plane of one of said front or back surfaces of the woven pattern of the strings, said body supporting a plurality of flexible arms that extend outwardly in the same direction from said body, each one of said arms having a free end that coincides with said plane of the planar bottom surface of said body, said arms being disposed in a substantially parallel relation one with respect to the other, each one of said arms having a tooth integral with its free end, said teeth all extending in the same direction and at generally a right angle with respect to said planar bottom surface of said body, the shape of each tooth and the dimensions of said shape being such that two or more of said teeth may fit simultaneously into and extend through one of said spacings into which one or more of said teeth may be pressed when said planar bottom surface of said body is pressed against said one surface of said woven pattern, each one of said teeth having at least one exposed surface for engaging with a string when fitted into its respective space, all of said string engaging surfaces of said teeth being positioned along a straight line to be in alignment one with respect to the other before said arms are pressed against said one surface, and said body having a length to extend across a plurality of said spaces between the strings in said pattern.