EP0291576A2 - Poignée pour raquettes de tennis ou éléments similaires - Google Patents

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EP0291576A2
EP0291576A2 EP87117932A EP87117932A EP0291576A2 EP 0291576 A2 EP0291576 A2 EP 0291576A2 EP 87117932 A EP87117932 A EP 87117932A EP 87117932 A EP87117932 A EP 87117932A EP 0291576 A2 EP0291576 A2 EP 0291576A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B49/00—Stringed rackets, e.g. for tennis
    • A63B49/02—Frames
    • A63B49/08—Frames with special construction of the handle
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B60/00—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B60/00—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
    • A63B60/06—Handles
    • A63B60/08—Handles characterised by the material
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B60/00—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
    • A63B60/06—Handles
    • A63B60/10—Handles with means for indicating correct holding positions
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B60/00—Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
    • A63B60/06—Handles
    • A63B60/12—Handles contoured according to the anatomy of the user's hand

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  • the invention relates to a handle for sports equipment, in particular tennis or squash rackets, which has a round edge-free cross-section in the hand area and a convex thickening which merges into a concave taper at both ends.
  • a handle for sports equipment of this type is known, for example, from German utility model 84 11 884.9 or the corresponding German patent application 34 14 293. These publications also show that at least the surface layer of the handle should consist of skin-friendly visco-elastic silicone rubber or a material with similar properties.
  • the invention has for its object to further optimize the handles for sports equipment known from the cited references.
  • a combination of several features is proposed, namely that the handle in the hand area has a rounded, edge-free cross-section and a convex cross-sectional thickening that merges into a concave cross-sectional taper at both ends and the other that the two concave cross-sectional tapering each merge into a scanning area with a polygonal, in particular octagonal, cross section.
  • the scanning areas should preferably each have two mutually opposite main surfaces, which are adjoined by narrow secondary surfaces on each long side.
  • Sports equipment of the type specified here for example tennis rackets equipped with the handle described, are preferably manufactured in one piece, in which case the handle then integrally merges into the handle of the sports equipment. If necessary, an end cap can be placed on the end of the handle, which forms the sensing area provided there.
  • the handle as a whole can be made of foamed and optionally reinforced by inserts thermoplastic or hardened material such as rubber, plastic or in particular silicone rubber. In this way it is possible to make the handle particularly light and still give it the required strength. Fibers including glass fibers or carbon fibers can be considered as inserts, but also wires or profiles made of metal or harder, in particular more rigid plastics.
  • the handles can be created by casting or blowing. Of course, it is also possible to dispense with the foaming of the materials and to use compact materials instead.
  • the handle can consist of two plastic half-shells which are mirror images of a plane of symmetry running in the direction of their longitudinal axis. These plastic half-shells can easily be placed on handles of any shape and glued there. It must be emphasized that the use of such half shells is not limited to the retrofitting of sports equipment that has already been produced. Plastic half-shells of this type can also be used in the production of new sports equipment, if this is desired for any reason, for example manufacturing reasons.
  • the handle at least in the area of the convex thickening, has a coating of viscoelastic silicone rubber roughened on the surface.
  • viscoelastic silicone rubber for the manufacture of the handles or the handle cover.
  • the cover should have knobs, grooves or the like. have and are made particularly easy to grip in this way.
  • it has been found that it is much more advantageous to merely roughen the coating, that is to say to completely dispense with the knobs or grooves mentioned.
  • Such a roughened cover gives a terry-like feel and has proven to be optimal.
  • the handle can be constructed in two or more layers, for example one or more inner layers of hard plastic foam and an outer layer of preferably roughened silicone rubber.
  • the design of the hand area is particularly important. It has been shown here that it is important to make the hand area oval and that the ratio of the large diameter to the small diameter of this oval shape should be between 1.10 and 1.30. If the handle is to be provided with a roughened silicone rubber cover, it must be ensured that the above-mentioned conditions are present even after the silicone rubber cover has been applied, so that they have an optimal effect in the manner mentioned. Incidentally, it has been shown that such a coating made of roughened silicone rubber can be applied easily and advantageously by starting with appropriately dimensioned tube pieces made of this material, which for application in a suitable solvent for a few minutes, for example dichloromethane, chloroform or the like. be placed.
  • the silicone rubber swells and can then be easily pushed over the handle of the racket.
  • the solvent evaporates again, whereby the rubber shrinks - without changing its properties - and adheres firmly to the contours of the handle.
  • these tactile areas should each have two opposing wide areas (main areas), to which narrow areas (secondary areas) adjoin on each long side.
  • the best dimensioning can be that the main areas are 15-25 mm wide and the secondary areas are 10-15 mm wide.
  • These dimensions mentioned should preferably not be combined with one another in any way but instead so that with a width of the main area of 25 mm the secondary area should be 15 mm and with a width of the main area of 15 mm the secondary areas should be 10 mm wide.
  • the roughened surface of the handle or handle cover is of essential importance in the context of the present invention.
  • One way of producing such a coating is to produce the coating from an elastomeric material, preferably silicone rubber, in which particulate inclusions are embedded.
  • These particulate inclusions can also consist of plastic, for example of silicone rubber hardened by crosslinking. It is advantageous if the particle size of the inclusions is 1-2.5 mm and the content of embedded particles is 10-40% by weight. It has proven to be particularly favorable if the embedded particles have an elongated shape and if the ratio of the width to the length of the particles is 1: 2-3. It has been proposed to make silicone rubber coatings with embedded particles.
  • the stored hardened silicone rubber particles should form a carefully selected size fraction, which is in the size range of 0.1 to 1 mm.
  • this size range is not as optimal as it initially seemed.
  • the elongated particles of the size range specified above are far more advantageous. The particles align themselves when processing the mass into tubes, foils or the like. so that they are approximately parallel to the surface and give the material a terry-like appearance.
  • the desired grip surface can be produced in that the cover consists of a piece of tubing or a winding tape made of the above-mentioned roughened material.
  • the material can also be applied by spraying or sintering, the latter, for example, in a fluidized bed sintering process. Finally, it can also be poured on.
  • the handle from any material, preferably plastic, and then to coat it superficially with lumpy material, for example the shredded thermoplastic particles already mentioned. These particles can then be glued or sintered on. A thin skin made of thermoplastic material, preferably silicone rubber, is then pulled over this handle, which is thus prepared, and this is shrunk on. When shrinking, the skin clings tightly, with the previously applied particles pressing into the skin. The desired product is also created in this way.
  • the handle cover is porous.
  • a porous coating can be made from silicone rubber (but also from other thermoplastic materials) by stretching the coating in at least one direction.
  • Such coatings are particularly suitable in the present case, since sufficient shrinkage can easily be achieved when shrinking on hose pieces, but also when wrapping a tape around the handle.
  • the tennis racket shown in Fig. 1 consists of the racket frame (1), the handle (3) from there finally passes into the handle (4) via the heart (2).
  • the racket frame, the centerpiece and the handle are normally made of glass fiber reinforced polyester resin or comparable materials.
  • the racket frame is covered in a known manner with a grid, not shown in the drawing.
  • the handle (4) has a rounded, edge-free cross-section in the hand area (5) and a convex cross-sectional thickening (6) which merges into a concave cross-sectional taper (7, 8) at both ends. These two tapers each merge into an octagonal sensing area (9 and 10), of which the sensing area (9) is designed to be significantly longer than the sensing area (10) located at the rear end.
  • the handle is holistic, that is made from one piece with the handle (3) of the sports device.
  • the handle consists of two plastic half-shells (11 and 12) which are mirror images of one in the direction of the longitudinal axis extending symmetry plane are formed. This plane of symmetry naturally coincides with the groove (13) in which the two half-shells (11 and 12) abut.
  • the drawing shows that the handle is oval in the entire hand area.
  • the ratio of the large diameter to the small diameter should be between 1.10 and 1.30 at every point in the hand area.
  • the areas of the scanning area are also designed in a special way. 2-4 in particular show that the scanning areas (9 and 10) have wider main areas (14 and 15) and adjacent narrower secondary areas (16-19). It has proven to be optimal if the wide dimensions of these areas are as follows: Main surfaces (14.15): 15-25 mm Secondary surfaces (16-19): 10-15 mm The length of the surfaces is not critical; it depends on the nominal size of the handle and can vary as desired.

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Cited By (6)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5058902A (en) * 1990-07-23 1991-10-22 Mccutchen Wilmot H Ellipsoidal flared racquet handle with distal butt weight
FR2802435A1 (fr) * 1999-12-10 2001-06-22 High Cedar Entpr Co Ltd Enveloppe protectrice antiderapante, absorbant les chocs, d'une poignee de raquette de jeu
FR2813200A1 (fr) * 2000-08-28 2002-03-01 High Cedar Entpr Co Ltd Bande protectrice antiderapante pour manche
FR2813199A1 (fr) * 2000-08-25 2002-03-01 High Cedar Entpr Co Ltd Bande protectrice ayant une surface antiderapante
US6823562B1 (en) * 2002-05-03 2004-11-30 Robert Tyson Smith Grip assembly attachable to variously shaped articles
CN101015736B (zh) * 2006-02-06 2010-06-16 百保力公司 具有工效学特点的球拍握柄，球拍及相应系列的握柄及球拍

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DE8707162U1 (de) * 1987-05-19 1987-10-01 Kleylein, Horst, 8500 Nürnberg Griff für Tennisschläger od.dgl.
FR2909005B1 (fr) 2006-11-23 2009-02-27 Babolat Vs Sa Insert pour manche de raquette, manche et raquette correspondants.

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DE7705968U1 (fr) * 1900-01-01 Placzko, Helmut, 6331 Dutenhofen
BE707926A (fr) * 1967-12-13 1968-04-16
GB2154454A (en) * 1984-02-21 1985-09-11 Jamak Inc Handgrip having non-slip features
WO1985004592A1 (fr) * 1984-04-14 1985-10-24 Horst Kleylein Poignee pour articles de sport
DE8608907U1 (de) * 1986-05-14 1986-07-17 Berger, Bernhard, 8458 Sulzbach Rosenberg Tennisschläger
WO1987001602A1 (fr) * 1985-09-11 1987-03-26 Gertsch Produkt Innovation Ag Manche pour engin de sport de frappe
DE8716028U1 (de) * 1987-05-19 1988-02-18 Kleylein, Horst, 8500 Nürnberg Griff für Tennisschläger od. dgl.

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE7705968U1 (fr) * 1900-01-01 Placzko, Helmut, 6331 Dutenhofen
BE707926A (fr) * 1967-12-13 1968-04-16
GB2154454A (en) * 1984-02-21 1985-09-11 Jamak Inc Handgrip having non-slip features
WO1985004592A1 (fr) * 1984-04-14 1985-10-24 Horst Kleylein Poignee pour articles de sport
WO1987001602A1 (fr) * 1985-09-11 1987-03-26 Gertsch Produkt Innovation Ag Manche pour engin de sport de frappe
DE8608907U1 (de) * 1986-05-14 1986-07-17 Berger, Bernhard, 8458 Sulzbach Rosenberg Tennisschläger
DE8716028U1 (de) * 1987-05-19 1988-02-18 Kleylein, Horst, 8500 Nürnberg Griff für Tennisschläger od. dgl.

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5058902A (en) * 1990-07-23 1991-10-22 Mccutchen Wilmot H Ellipsoidal flared racquet handle with distal butt weight
FR2802435A1 (fr) * 1999-12-10 2001-06-22 High Cedar Entpr Co Ltd Enveloppe protectrice antiderapante, absorbant les chocs, d'une poignee de raquette de jeu
FR2813199A1 (fr) * 2000-08-25 2002-03-01 High Cedar Entpr Co Ltd Bande protectrice ayant une surface antiderapante
FR2813200A1 (fr) * 2000-08-28 2002-03-01 High Cedar Entpr Co Ltd Bande protectrice antiderapante pour manche
US6823562B1 (en) * 2002-05-03 2004-11-30 Robert Tyson Smith Grip assembly attachable to variously shaped articles
CN101015736B (zh) * 2006-02-06 2010-06-16 百保力公司 具有工效学特点的球拍握柄，球拍及相应系列的握柄及球拍

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