Patent ID: 7517293

Claim:
A combination tennis scoring and vibration dampening device for directly securing to the bed of strings of a tennis racket, said racket having a frame portion containing a bed of strings formed by plural horizontally and vertically oriented, interwoven strings, a handle with a throat portion adjacent said frame portion, said device comprising: a pair of intermatable housing sections for mating through said strings in proximity to said throat portion; a.) a first said section having a top wall with outer and inner surfaces, and a downwardly extending discontinuous wall from said top wall and terminating in a free end, said inner surface mounting a rubberized material functioning as a vibration dampening member, said downwardly extending discontinuous wall having means in proximity to said free end for mating with a complementary means on said second section; b.) a second said section having a top wall with outer and inner surfaces, and a downwardly extending discontinuous wall from said top wall and terminating in a free end, said inner surface mounting a rubberized material functioning as a vibration dampening member, said downwardly extending discontinuous wall having means remote to said free end for engaging said means on said first said section; and, c.) at least one said section along its said outer surface having a scoring mechanism to identify the score of a player.