US20030186762A1 - Introduced in tennis racket - Google Patents

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US20030186762A1
US20030186762A1 US10/312,221 US31222103A US2003186762A1 US 20030186762 A1 US20030186762 A1 US 20030186762A1 US 31222103 A US31222103 A US 31222103A US 2003186762 A1 US2003186762 A1 US 2003186762A1
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    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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  • the present invention relates to a color system applied to tennis rackets, aiming the characterization of rapid visual effects that help a lot to learning the racket proper holding, and consequently, adding a more efficient mean to enhance the job of the specialists in teaching said game of English background, enabling quite more those who are initiating in such sport that, although simple and possible to be practiced by anybody, demands a certain technique.
  • the racket is a manual instrument used for hitting the tennis ball, being this way, built of a strong oval ring made of a sort of materials, among which is found wood, plastic, graphite, aluminum or ceramic, where a net made of tensioned strings is placed and is handled through an elongated extremity.
  • the improvement herein is provided only by placing a color system in any racket, where each side will be painted or manufactured in a different and contrasting color, in a way that both sides of the racket can be visually distinct. In such a manner that, for each color is given a distinct characteristic, defining this way, the side for the right hand hit or “forehand hit” and the side for the left hand hit or “backhand hit”.
  • the system can be defined by any contrasting colors.
  • the handle of the racket also includes colors to complete the system and, in this case, the said handle presents preferably a faceted cross section, such as eight facets. Three of them will be colored according to the color of the referred side. This way, the tennis players will identify how to hold the handle to perform the to the demanded hit by the three colored strips: one color for the backhand hit of right-handed and left-handed tennis players painted in two distinct facets of the handle; and another color for the forehand hit of right-handed and left-handed tennis players painted in one third facet of the handle.
  • the color system helps kids and adults that are beginners in playing tennis, to identify the right hits (forehand) and left hits (backhand) more easily, being enough for that, to place the center of the hand palm over the correspondent color facet.
  • FIG. 1 shows a plane view of a racket
  • FIG. 2 shows a side view of the same racket
  • FIG. 3 shows a view of the “A-A” section indicated in the FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 shows a view of the handle cross section of the said racket
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 show illustrations of the forehand and backhand hits.
  • the present improvement is possible to be applied to any racket traditionally used for practicing tennis, independently of the material in which the racket is made of, such as that shown in FIG. 1, where it can be verified that the same is usually built in a strong oval ring ( 1 ) made of graphite, ceramic, metal or other suitable material, having in the inner side of the ring ( 1 ) a net ( 2 ) made of tensioned and crossed strings held to the said ring ( 1 ), while in the outer side of the ring ( 1 ) there is an elongation portion, aligned with its major axle herein called anatomic handle ( 3 ) with a faceted cross section.
  • a strong oval ring ( 1 ) made of graphite, ceramic, metal or other suitable material, having in the inner side of the ring ( 1 ) a net ( 2 ) made of tensioned and crossed strings held to the said ring ( 1 ), while in the outer side of the ring ( 1 ) there is an elongation portion, aligned with its major
  • the invention herein is characterized by the fact that the sides (L 1 ) and (L 2 ) of the ring ( 1 ) and the net ( 2 ) present different and contrasting colors (C 1 ) and (C 2 ), where each side of a different color makes reference to a different way of holding the handle ( 3 ), and also, the same colors are applied to the facets of the anatomic handle ( 3 ), where said colors are equally indicated as (C 1 ) and (C 2 ).
  • the colors (C 1 ) and (C 2 ) can be provided by any industrial process, being it through painting or the manufacturing material color itself.
  • the colors (C 1 ) and (C 2 ) can be applied only to the sides (L 1 ) and (L 2 ) of the oval ring ( 1 ) and to the handle ( 3 ), leaving the net ( 2 ) in its original manufacturing color, such as transparent or similar.
  • the novelty proposed by the present invention is a system of different colors for determined parts of the racket, in a way that such colors can be used to speed up learning the various ways of holding the handle ( 3 ), as well as the various ways of managing the said racket.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 only as a practical example, it is, in the following, used two distinct colors, blue (C 1 ) and red (C 2 ).
  • the FIG. 5 shows the right or forehand hit and is represented by the red color (C 2 )
  • the FIG. 6 shows the left or the backhand hit that is represented by the blue color (C 1 ).
  • the racket handle has eight facets. Three of them painted according to what is shown in FIG. 4, bearing in mind that the exemplified colors: one face blue (C 1 ), one face red (C 2 ), and one face blue (C 1 ). This way, the beginners kids and the adults can identify the proper way to hold the handle by the colors backhand right-handed blue (C 1 ), forehand right-handed and left-handed red (C 2 ) and backhand left-handed blue (C 1 ).

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US1917236A (en) * 1931-03-06 1933-07-11 Bloomstrand Roland Tennis racket and other play implement
US4090710A (en) * 1976-01-28 1978-05-23 Williams Roy G Training tennis racket
US4326714A (en) * 1980-06-09 1982-04-27 Novack Robert L Game implement
US4796889A (en) * 1986-12-19 1989-01-10 Renaud Muraour Tip for tennis racket handle and the like, and racket equipped with this tip
US4804183A (en) * 1987-03-11 1989-02-14 Robert H. Redkey Double faced sports racquet
US5478072A (en) * 1993-08-10 1995-12-26 Gosen Co., Ltd. Racket string and stringed rackets using the same
US6213902B1 (en) * 1994-12-23 2001-04-10 Edward H. Hagey Contoured grip for a racquet

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US1917236A (en) * 1931-03-06 1933-07-11 Bloomstrand Roland Tennis racket and other play implement
US4090710A (en) * 1976-01-28 1978-05-23 Williams Roy G Training tennis racket
US4326714A (en) * 1980-06-09 1982-04-27 Novack Robert L Game implement
US4796889A (en) * 1986-12-19 1989-01-10 Renaud Muraour Tip for tennis racket handle and the like, and racket equipped with this tip
US4804183A (en) * 1987-03-11 1989-02-14 Robert H. Redkey Double faced sports racquet
US5478072A (en) * 1993-08-10 1995-12-26 Gosen Co., Ltd. Racket string and stringed rackets using the same
US6213902B1 (en) * 1994-12-23 2001-04-10 Edward H. Hagey Contoured grip for a racquet

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US20120244967A1 (en) * 2011-03-24 2012-09-27 Johnston Adam J Color coded racquet grip

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