US1943400A - Means for stringing tennis rackets with strings - Google Patents

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US1943400A
US1943400A US348328A US34832829A US1943400A US 1943400 A US1943400 A US 1943400A US 348328 A US348328 A US 348328A US 34832829 A US34832829 A US 34832829A US 1943400 A US1943400 A US 1943400A
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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
    • A63B51/00—Stringing tennis, badminton or like rackets; Strings therefor; Maintenance of racket strings
    • A63B51/14—Arrangements for stringing, e.g. for controlling the tension of the strings during stringing
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    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
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    • A63B51/00—Stringing tennis, badminton or like rackets; Strings therefor; Maintenance of racket strings
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    • A63B51/146—Devices simultaneously raising and lowering alternate longitudinal strings previously mounted in a frame, to facilitate the threading of the cross strings

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  • FIG. 1 to 12 of the drawings A constructional example of the means employed is shown in the Figs. 1 to 12 of the drawings, another constructional example is shown in the Figs. 13 to 35.
  • Fig. 1 shows the means in front elevation
  • Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the clamping apparatus on a larger scale.
  • Fig. 6 is a plan of Fig. 5, and
  • Fig. 7 shows the clamping apparatus open and in section.
  • Fig. 8 is shown the apparatus for throwing the clamping apparatus into and out of operation.
  • Fig. 9 is a view from beneath Fig. 8.
  • Fig. 10 shows the combs for the formation of the reticulation in front elevation.
  • Fig. 11 is a section on the line XI-XI of Fig. 10
  • Fig. 12 is a section on the line XII-XII of Fig. 10.
  • Fig. 13 shows the second constructional example in front elevation.
  • Fig. 14 the same apparatus in plan and Fig. 15 the same in side elevation.
  • Fig. 16 shows to a larger scale the clamping device for the side portions of the frame.
  • Fig. 1'? is a plan of Fig. 16.
  • Figs. 18, 19 and 20 show in three characteristic positions a constructional example of the clamping device for the stretching of the strings.
  • Fig. 21 shows another constructional example of the clamping device in section.
  • Fig. 22 shows the mechanism for working this clamping device in elevation.
  • Fig. 23 shows the same in side elevation.
  • Fig. 24 is a view of the string holder
  • Fig. 25 is a section on the line XXV-XXV of Fig. 24 with the string clamped
  • Fig. 26 is a similar section with the clamp open
  • Fig. 27 is a section on the line XXVII.XXVII of Fig. 24,
  • Fig. 28 shows the means employed for the formation of the shed in front elevation
  • Fig. 29 is a section thereof on the line XXIX- XXIX of Fig. 28 and Fig. 30 shows the same in side elevation.
  • Figs. 31, 32 and 33 show an auxiliary tool for drawing the transverse strings through the shed formed by the longitudinal strings and of these fi ures
  • Figs. 31 and 32 show the tool in plan in two characteristic positions
  • Fig. 33 shows the tool in side elevation.
  • Figs. 34 and 35 show a further auxiliary tool.
  • Fig. 36 shows diagrammatically the combination of a number of arrangements according to this invention to form a group with a common driving mechanism.
  • the apparatus conform the Figs. 1-12 is mounted on a frame composed of angle iron which carries on top a rectangular frame 2.
  • a clamping device for the head of the tennis racket 5 and a clamping device for the handle 4 thereof which clamping devices completely fix the racket and prevent it from being distorted during the work.
  • an apparatus for gripping the strings On both sides of these clamping devices is arranged an apparatus for gripping the strings.
  • Each of these apparatus consists of .two superposed clamping jaws 6 and 7 and 6 and 7 respectively, which are adapted to :move endways longitudinally of the frame 2.
  • the clamping jaws are provided on their operative faces with flutes 10, which are of corrugated form and engage in each other.
  • the two jaws of a clamping apparatus may be brought together or moved apart by means of racks 1 2, which are connected to the lower clamping jaw 7 and cooperate with the pinions 13 attached to the upper clamping jaw 6, the 10 upper jaw being guided on pins 12
  • Both the pinions 13 are carried on the shaft 14 which can be rotated by means of the lever 15.
  • a 105 spring ratchet tooth 1'7 which engages in a I ratchet wheel 18 (Fig. 6).
  • the shaft By means of the treadle 25 and the connecting rod 26 the shaft can be caused to revolve.
  • 27 is a flywheel, and 28, 28 are grooved pulleys, which are keyed on the shaft 23.
  • the pulley 28 is connected by a crossed cord to the pulley 21 -and the pulley 28 by an uncrossed cord to the pulley 21 so that when the treadle 25 is worked the two screw spindles 20 and 20 will be driven in opposite directions.
  • the lower clamping jaw 7 ('7 has a projection or lug 30, in which a bi-partite nut 31, 32 for the screw spindle 20 is mounted.
  • Each of the two parts 31, 32 is carried by a rack 33, 34, in which the gear wheel 35 gears.
  • the spindle of the gear wheel 35 carries on its outwardly extended end a lever 37, by the rocking motion of which the gear wheel 35 is rotated and by means of the racks 33, 34 the two parts 31, 32 can be brought into or out of engagement with the spindle 20.
  • On the outside of each clamping apparatus is mounted a vertical pin 41 movable in a slot 40 and around which the string 42 to be clamped is laid as will be hereinafter described.
  • transverse strings of the stringing of the racket must be passed alternately over and under the longitudinal strings, similar to the mamier in which the weft threads of a fabric are passed between the warp threads, the friction when passing them through, if the longitudinal strings were to remain in one plane, would be too great and the transverse string to be inserted would in consequence be subjected to an undue amount of strain.
  • an apparatus which alternately raises and lowers the longitudinal strings 5, so as to form a shed as in a loom, through which the transverse string can be drawn without friction.
  • This apparatus consists of two combs 43, 44 of which the one is arranged above and the other below the clamped racket.
  • the two combs are mounted on a common frame 46, which is adapted to move endways longitudinally of the clamped racket 5 in the bars 45 provided on the frame 2.
  • the various teeth 48 of each comb have a rectangular opening 49, by means of which they are pushed onto square bolts 50, 51 fluted on their upper and lower sides and these teeth can by means of a clamping screw 52, be clamped on the bolt at different distances from each other according to the distance apart of the longitudinal strings of the racket.
  • the openings 49 are so arranged in the teeth 48, that each tooth projects more to one side of the bolt 50 than to the other.
  • the end of each tooth which projects further than the other one is provided with a notch 53, which serves for the reception of one of the longitudinal strings 54 of the racket.
  • Each of the two bolts 50, 51 carries on its end a rack 55.
  • racks 55 engages on either side of the frame 46 a gear wheel 56, the spindle of which is journalled in the frame 46.
  • the two gear wheels 56 (one such gear wheel is provided on each side of the frame 46) are so connected to each other by the levers 58, 58 and a connecting rod 59, that they can only be rotated conjointly.
  • the two bolts 50, 51 will be brought towards or moved away from each other by means of the racks 55, whereby the shed is formed.
  • the two bolts can be rotated by hand, and when so rotated the spring pins 60, 61 enter corresponding recesses in the bolts in positions of the latter located at 180 to each other, so that the bolts are securely held in these positions.
  • the longitudinal strings are stretched and then fixed by means of the arrangement such as a swivel 4 provided on either side of the clamping apparatus 4.
  • the string intended for the transverse stringing is then first drawn through the holes lying next the head of the racket and one end of the string is knotted.
  • the frame 46 after the teeth 48 have been previously adjusted to correspond to the distance apart of the longitudinal strings, is then pushed up to the head of the racket and the shed for drawing through the transverse strings thus formed.
  • the transverse string 42 is drawn through the shed and through the hole in the racket and, as shown in Fig.
  • the transverse string which has been drawn in is fixed in the hole in the racket, the nuts 31, 32 disconnected from the spindle 20 by rocking the lever 37, the clamping apparatus released by the rocking of the lever 15 and the end of the string removed from the clamping apparatus.
  • the connecting rod 59 has been grasped and by means of it the two levers 58, 58 are so rocked that the crossing of the longitudinal strings necessary for the next formation of the shed is produced.
  • the free end of the transverse string is now drawn through the next hole in the racket 5, through the shed which has been formed and through the opposite hole in the racket and clamped in the clamping apparatus 6 in the same way as described above.
  • the apparatus conforming with the Figs. 13 to 35 consists essentially of the frame of the machine A, the clamping device B for the handie of the racket, the clamping device C for the side portions of the frame, the clamping devices D for the string to be drawn in, a string holder for holding the stretched string securely and a device F for forming the shed from the longitudinal strings.
  • a worm 105 On the shaft 104 is mounted a worm 105, which gears with the worm wheel 106 which is keyed on the shaft 108 mounted in bearings in the frame.
  • two rollers 109 and 110 (Fig. 22) which rotate freely thereon but are prevented from moving endways on the shaft. These two rollers 109 and 110 may be coupled selectively to the shaft 108 by means of the jaw clutches 111, 112. The throwing into and out of operation of the clutches is effected by the sliding sleeve 114, the levers 115, 116, the connecting rod 117, and by the lever 118.
  • the distance of the two rollers 109 and 110 from each other is so selected that only one of the two rollers 109 or 110 can be coupled at a time to the shaft 108.
  • 120 and 121 are two tension cords, one end of each of which is attached to the periphery of the rollers 109, 110 respectively, while the other ends of these two tension cords are connected to arms 122, 123, which operate the clamping devices D.
  • the arms 122, 123 are each provided with a longitudinal slot, in which the end of the corresponding tension cord can be securely clamped and the arms are rigidly connected to the shafts 124, 125 mounted in bearings in the frame.
  • Each of these two shafts has a longitudinal groove formed in it along which the clamping devices I) for clamping the string can slide.
  • the devices 13 each consist as shown in Figs. 18, 19 and 20 of a hollow sheet-metal body 130, which is mounted to rotate freely on the shaft 124.
  • the hollow body 130 forms one of the clamping jaws for the string and is provided with flutes 131 in its operative surface.
  • On the hollow body 130 are mounted two guide sleeves 132, 133 in which the second clamping jaw 136 is guided by means of the bolts 134, 135.
  • This clamping jaw also is provided with flutes 137 on its operative surface, these flutes engaging in the flutes 131 on the lower clamping jaw.
  • the hollow body 130 is provided with a cylindrical supporting surface 138 for the string to be stretched, which surface is concentric with the shaft 124. The radius of the cylindrical surface is so selected that the upper horizontal tangent lies in the working plane, that is to say in that plane through which the string is to be drawn.
  • the two clamping jaws and the supporting surface 138 are covered with rubber sheets 140, 141 which when the jaws are moved together, are pressed into the flutes whereby the string though held securely is protected against injury.
  • a lever 143 On the interior of the hollow body 130 and on the shaft 124 is mounted a lever 143, the hub of which engages through a projection 145 in a groove 12"! in the shaft 124, so that this lever 143 is rotatably coupled with the shaft 124.
  • a connecting rod 146 To the end of the lever 143 is pivoted a connecting rod 146, which extends with clearance through openings in the clamping jaws and is connected pivotally through a bearing bracket 14'? to the upper clamping jaw 136.
  • the hollow body 130 is provided at 142 with a counterweight which causes it, when there is no tension on the cord 120 (121) to automatically set itself in the position of rest shown in Fig. 18.
  • a counterweight which causes it, when there is no tension on the cord 120 (121) to automatically set itself in the position of rest shown in Fig. 18.
  • Coupled to rotate with the shaft 124 (125) is a disc 139 bearing a scale, over which a pointer 139 fixed to the frame travels.
  • This device serves to read off the angle of rotation of the shaft and consequently the elongation or stretching of the string.
  • the arm 122 is prolonged outwards beyond the shaft 124 and this extension 124 is connected by a tension cord 128 to a tension measurer 128 of any well known type, on which the tension put upon the string can be read off in kilogrammes.
  • 250 is a hollow body keyed. on the shaft 124 and adapted to be moved endways thereon.
  • a fluted rubber covered clamping jaw At 251 is formed a fluted rubber covered clamping jaw.
  • To this hollow body 250 is pivoted an arm 253 adapted to rock on the pin 252 and this arm forms the second clamping jaw 254.
  • the string 190 coming from the racket frame is wrapped first round the clamping jaw 254 on its outer side and then passed through between the clamping jaws 254 and 251. If now the shaft 124 be rocked the string 190 presses the clamping jaws together. It is thereby gripped and on further rotation of the shaft 124 the string is stretched.
  • the hollow body 250 has a cylindrical outer surface the diameter of which is so chosen that the string lying at a tangent to the cylindrical surface runs in the working plane.
  • the clamping device B for the handle 148 of the racket is attached to the frame A and has two central clamping jaws 150, 151 which by means of the spindle 152 and the hand wheel 153 can be brought towards each other or drawn away from each other after the manner of the jaws of a vise.
  • the jaws 150, 151 are shaped on their insides angularly to correspond to the ordinary octagonal handle of a racket, so that it is impossible for the handle to rotate.
  • On the frame are also mounted two bars 155, 156 which carry the clamping. devices C for the side portions 15''? of the frame.
  • a connecting rod 175, 176 and these rods are pivotally connected to a two-armed lever 177 mounted to rock beneath the bar 160.
  • the lever 1'17 has at one end an extension 178, which carries a screw-threaded bolt 179. This bolt is guided in a slot 180 in a plate 181 mounted beneath the bar 160 and can be secured in any position in said slot by means of a wing nut. As shown in Figs.
  • clamping J'aws 1S6169 and the clamping jaws 150, 151 lie in a common horizontal plane which is the working plane.
  • the string holder is guided on a cross bar 185 and this latter is adapted to slide on the two longitudinal rails or bars 155, 15 so that the holder is movable in two directions at right angles to each other.
  • the string holder has two clamping jaws 186, 187, which have at their upper ends recesses, the distance apart of which corresponds to the distance apart of the longitudinal strings.
  • the two clamping jaws are connected to each other by a link 191 and are adapted to slide vertically on a guide member 192 which is shaped at the bottom to form a dovetail guide groove 193.
  • On the guide member 192 is mounted a yoke or stirrup 194 in which a bolt 195 is carried.
  • a rotating escentric 196 which is operable through the handle 197.
  • a projection 198 on the guide member 192 slides a bolt 199 surrounded by a compression spring 200.
  • This coiled spring bears on the one hand against the bar 185 and on the other hand against a collar on the bolt 199, and forces this bolt into the position shown in Fig. 25 so that the end of the bolt always bears against the eXcen-tric 196.
  • the device F for forming the shed from the longitudinal strings is adapted to slide along the bars 155, 156 on rollers 295
  • rollers 295 are mounted on frames 205, which carry a rock shaft 207.
  • the elements which serve to form the shed consist of the prismatic metal members 208, in which bolts 209 inserted. Each of these bolts carries at its upper end a hook 219, which hooks over a longitudinal string 189. These elements are provided in such a number as corresponds to the number of longitudinal strings in the racket.
  • the prismatic metal members 208 have two borings by means of which they are mounted on guide rods 212, 213 and 214, 215 respectively.
  • Two groups of such elements are provided, one group of which is mounted on the rods 212, 213 while the other group is mounted on the rods 214, 215, the arrangement being such that the elements of the one group are caused to lie between the elements of the other group.
  • the guide bars 212, 213 and 214, 215 are clamped respectively in two carrier devices 218 and 219, 219 arranged at their ends which devices are arranged to slide vertically in guides 296.
  • the guides 206 are adapted in their turn to slide in the frames 205 Vertically.
  • the carrier devices 218, 218 and 219, 219 respectively are provided with racks 220, which engage with gear wheels 222 mounted on a shaft 221. This shaft 221 carries also a worm wheel into which the worm 224 gears.
  • the shaft 225 of the worm 224 is mounted in a guide 296 and carries at its upper end a hand wheel 225.
  • the shaft 221 will be rotated and consequently through the medium of the gear wheels 222 and the racks 229 the hooks are of one group will be r ised and those of the other group depressed.
  • the shaft 221 rests with its ends on two excentrics 228, 229 which are keyed on the shaft 207.
  • the excentrics 228 and 229 are shaped so that when the shaft 207 is rocked the shaft 221 can be raised or lowered, whereby the hooks 210 can be coniointly raised into the working plane or lowered below it.
  • a Worm wheel 231 is keyed on this shaft and gears with the worm 232.
  • the shaft 233 of this worm is mounted in the frame 205 and carries a hand wheel 235.
  • auxiliary tool such as is shown in Figs. 31, 32 and 33 may with advantage employed.
  • This tool consists of a series of levers 238 which are pivotally connected to each other after the manner of a lazyton s.
  • handles 239 To one end of the tool are attached two handles 239, which serve to operate the device.
  • clamping jaws 240 which are covered with rubber plates between which the end of the string to be drawn in can be clamped.
  • 250 is a cross bar extending across the width of the racket and which is supported on the wooden frame 157 of the racket.
  • middle of this cross bar and rotatable thereon is mounted a sleeve 251.
  • This sleeve can be rotated about its longitudinal axis by means of a handiever 252.
  • a rotating knee piece 253 is mounted rigid with the sleeve 251 and rotatable in the cross piece 259.
  • the two members 251 and 253 can also be made in one piece.
  • a small rodlike member 254 which is held against rotation and carri s at its upper end an arm 255 the end 256 of which engages in a cam groove 257.
  • This cam groove is arranged in a part 253 attached to the cross piece 25c.
  • a flexible bar-like member 259 which slides in the interior of the sleeves 251, 253.
  • a sliding rod-like member 260 In the horizontal bent end of the lower member 253 is guided a sliding rod-like member 260 the end of which holds the string As already de- Lad.
  • the shed o Before drawing in the first transverse string the shed o, u is formed in the manner already described.
  • the drawing apparatus with its cross bar 250 is then placed directly on the frame of the racket in such a way that the lower kneeshaped bent part of the apparatus passes between the two central lcngltudinal strings.
  • the apparatus can also be clamped to the frame of the racket or to the guide bar of the fixer by suitable means.
  • the distance apart of the small hooks 210 of the present apparatus must be as small as possible so that the shed can be fully utilized.
  • the lever 252 is now rocked into the position I-I from which it is moved for the introduction of the transverse string into the shed.
  • the transverse string 190 to be drawn in is clamped in a suitable manner to the end of the small bar 260.
  • the lever 252 is now rocked into its second position. During this movement the end of the small bar 269 and therefore also the end of the spring 190 do not describe an arc of a circle but they are moved approxi- In the 1 -ment of t e mately transversely to the longitudinal strings in the shed.
  • the string 190 is then removed from the clamp on the end of the small bar 260, and threaded through the hole in the frame 157 of the racket.
  • the lever 252 is then set parallel with the longitudinal axis of the racket so that the shed can be changed, after which preparation is made for the introduction of the next transverse string.
  • the frame of the racket is laid in the clamp ing device and by working the hand wheel 153 the handle of the racket is clamped by the jaws 150, 151 and by working the handle 171 the side portions of the frame of the racket will be firmly clamped by the clamping jaws 168, 169.
  • the racket is now so clamped in the apparatus that the plane of the longitudinal strings coincides with the working plane, that is to say with that plane in which the transverse strings are to be stretched. drawing in and stretching of the transverse strings now proceeds in such a way that the two clamping devices D are moved along the shafts 127 to those points where the transverse string is to be stretched.
  • the hand wheel raised conjointly so that the longitudinal strings 189 can be hooked into the hooks.
  • the hand wheel 226 By working the hand wheel 226 the one group of hooks 216 will be pushed up above the working plane and the other group will be lowered and consequently the crossing of the longitudinal strings required to form the shed will be effected.
  • the other end of the transverse string 190 is clamped by pressing it in between the two rubber plates 241 on the clamping jaws 240 of th auxiliary tool,
  • the hollow body 139 will now be cari'ed with it and so rotated that the string 190 will be stretched, applying itself to the cylindrical surface 140.
  • the pull on the string 19L- will always be exerted in the working plane.
  • the extent of the elongation of or the tension on the string 190 can he read oif from the scale 139.
  • the pull put on the string in kilogrammes can be read off on tensioineter 128.
  • the fixer is brought under the string which has just been strained by sliding it along the bars 155, 156 and then pushed along the bar 185 to a position inside the frame of the racket and on that side on which lies the tensioning device which has been used.
  • the clamping jaws 186, 187 are pushed upwards such a distance that the string is caused to lie between the clamping surface and then by depressing the handle 197 the excentric 196 is rocked. In this way the fixer is clamped fast to the bar 185 and the string 190 is also gripped between jaws 186, 187.
  • the roller 109 is disconnected by working the connecting rod 117 and the lever 115, 116, the pull on the cord 120 ceases and the hollow body 130 returns to the position shown in Fig. 18 under the influence of counterweight 142.
  • the locking device 179 is provided in the slot 180 in the plate 181.
  • a motor driven mechanism may be provided worked by an electric motor for example.
  • the motor driving mechanism may be a single drive and a number of such machines may be driven by a common motor (group driving) as shown in Fig. 36, and the arrangement may conveniently be such that all the machines 246 connected to the one motor 245 work in the same time or beat. In this way all the workmen are constrained to work at the same rate.
  • An apparatus for use in assembling and tensioning the strings forming the flexible striking face of a tennis racket as claimed in claim 1, in which said passage forming means comprises a plurality of elements to engage the longitudinal strings in the frame and spread them in alternate directions to form a shed, and means for adjusting said elements to correspond to the distance of the said longitudinal strings from one another.
  • each tensioning device comprising a pair of blocks, one surface of each thereof being corrugated so as to fit into that of the other to grip the string
  • each string tensioning device further comprising a two part nut and each actuating means further comprising a worm cooperating with said nut, a wheel connected to each worm, a common crank rod carried by the said support, a pair of wheels attached to said rod, each of said second wheels being operatively connected with each of said first mentioned wheels, a lever associated with each two part nut for opening and closing the same to engage and disengage the said Worms, and a looking mechanism associated with each tensioning device.
  • a support for stringing tennis racket frames, a support, clamping elements for gripping the racket frame carried by the support, a pair of movable string tensioning devices disposed to lie on either side of the racket frame, actuating means attached to said support to move the said tensioning devices transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis of the frame, each tensioning device comprising a pair of blocks, one surface of each thereof being corrugated so as to fit into that of the other to grip the string, a rubber blanket stretched over the said corrugated surfaces to bridge the grooves thereof and contact with the corrugations upon engagement of the blocks, and a locking mechanism associated with each tensioning device.

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