Patent ID: 6935974
Filing Date: 2005-08-30
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A sports racquet comprising: a handle; a frame operatively connected to the handle and defining a strung area, the frame having a string support member having first and second side portions on opposed sides of the strung area; a plurality of string segments strung across the strung area; and an outer face disposed around an outer edge of the frame, having first through sixth locations linearly arranged in an order of fifth, third, first, sixth, fourth and second locations along the outer edge, string segments terminating at each of the locations; a first string path disposed in the outer face between the first and second locations, a second string path disposed in the outer face between the third and fourth locations and displaced from the first string path, a third string path disposed in the outer face between the fifth and sixth locations, so that string portions disposed in the first, second and third string paths on the outer face do not saw any of the others.