Patent ID: 7867428

Claim:
A method of making a composite sports racquet frame, comprising: molding a composite sports racquet frame including a handle portion and a head portion, the head portion defining a peripheral portion of the frame configured to receive and surround a string bed with a plurality of string segments and including a tip portion on an opposite end of the frame from the handle portion; molding of the frame comprising bladder molding one or more sections of the peripheral portion of the composite sports racquet frame to form one or more hollow sections; simultaneously compression molding one or more sections of the peripheral portion of the composite sports racquet frame to form one or more solid sections which have a solid cross-section substantially throughout; creating pre-molded holes in the one or more sections in the frame with a solid cross-section by placing pins in a mold cavity at spaced positions along the location of the one or more solid sections to be formed in the frame and compression molding the material forming the solid sections around the pins.