Racket handle grip
OwnerPhillip Norlinginventor
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Abstract
There is discloses a grip for a racket handle, particularly for tennis rackets, which comprises a cage that is secured to the racket handle and into which the player inserts his hand to grip the racket handle. The cage has a generally circular loop adjacent the base of the racket handle which surrounds the player's wrist and has a base plate dependent therefrom which rotatably supports the end of the racket handle. The cage includes at least a pair of longitudinal stringers which extend from the base plate to a ring that surrounds the racket handle adjacent its upper end. A strengthening stringer extends from the top of the wrist loop longitudinally along the handle, terminating in attachment to the ring at the opposite end of the cage. One or more reinforcing ribs can be located intermediate the length of the ribs to stiffen the structure.
Claims17
A grip enhancing device including a game racket handle having a racket end from which is supported a racket, and an opposite, free end, which device comprises:
- a. a foraminous body having an end plate which is rotatably attached to the free end of said game racket handle and is attached at its opposite end by a ring which surrounds said handle;
- b. a wrist band supported on said end plate at an oblique angle thereto;
- c. at least a first brace integral with said end plate or said wrist band and extending longitudinally along said handle;
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- d. attachment means securing the end of said first brace to said ring adjacent the racket end of said racket handle.
A grip enhancing device including a game racket handle having a racket end from which is supported a racket, and an opposite, free end, that is normally gripped by a user with the user's hand and fingers encircling the handle and the user's wrist oriented obliquely to the axis of said handle, which device comprises:
- a. a foraminous body having an end plate which is rotatably attached to the free end of said game racket handle and which is attached at its opposite end by a ring which surrounds said handle;
- b. a wrist band supported on said end plate at an oblique angle thereto so as to be substantially orthogonal to the user's wrist;
- c. at least a first brace extending from said plate or said wrist band longitudinally along said handle;
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- d. attachment means securing the end of said brace to said ring adjacent the racket end of said racket handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.