A weight adjustable, shock and vibration absorbing tennis racket comprising a generally oval shaped headframe with a handle attached thereto, and a striking surface therein formed by stringing the headframe with a string in the conventional manner. A pair of elongate recesses are formed along the inner periphery of the headframe at opposed positions thereon and aligned with the center of percussion of the headframe. A pair of projections are formed on respective opposed longitudinal sides of eac...

There is provided a game board for playing a board game, and methods for playing the same. The board is divided into eight rows and eight columns which define sixty-four squares. These squares alternate in color to define thirty-two playing spaces. These spaces are assigned a value such that the sum of the valued spaces contained in the middle four rows of the board is greater than the sum of the valued spaces contained in the first two and last two rows of the board. Points are awarded during p...

An apparatus is set forth to effect selective chilling of an extremity of an individual's appendage, such as the ankle and foot portion, wherein the apparatus includes a container with a cylindrical opening directed through an end wall thereof, with the opening including a clamping collar. The clamping collar includes an "L" shaped bag member mounted thereabout, with a clamp securing the bag member to the clamping collar, and the bag member including an opening aligned with the cylindrical openi...

A damping assembly for a sports racket is disclosed as being applied between a grommet or grommet strip associated with the racket and the racket frame to which the grommet or grommet strip is attached. The damping assembly includes a layer surrounding the outer surface of the frame preferably to at least 25% of the circumference. The layer is applied to the frame by adhesive material which allows the damping material to restrict frame vibration by shear-damping which resists shear deformation a...

A club head and hosel assembly providing adjustable loft angles wherein the adjustment ring is located within a housing in the hosel and a one-way ratchet engagement is used to adjust the loft angle by alternately rotating the club head in one direction and then the other with respect to the hosel.

A hot or cold pack with a main body portion and four radially extending portions attached thereto and integral therewith. The radially extending portions may have a width greater at their periphery than at the joining to the main body portion. The hot or cold pack is particularly useful for application to a curved contour such as breast, knee, ankle, shoulder or other body area to relieve post operative or post trauma pain and inflammation.

A board game combines elements of chance, strategy, and mental ability to connect or bond a sequence of clues. A triangular game board is divided into three quadrilateral playing areas, each with a peripheral game path consisting of squares or spaces. Each player has three transit pieces, one for each of the three pathways. A category die is rolled to select a particular category or obtain a free roll. There is a set of clueset cards, with each card having on its front face a clueset for each of...

A composite racket frame includes a shaft constituted by a shell and a foamed core and having a portion of smallest cross-section substantially at an intermediate portion thereof relative to any other portion, the dimension of the cross-section of the portion being restricted only in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the string web. The shaft further having two stepped width-increasing portions respectively extending from the smallest portion toward the throat section and t...

An electronic game apparatus which includes a playing board having a playing surface and playing areas and is capable of identifying game pieces and their position on the playing surface. First and second sets of parallel transmission lines are located beneath the playing surface of the playing board. The second set of parallel transmission lines is orthogonal to the first set of transmission lines. The first and second sets of transmission lines form intersecting points which are positioned pro...

A shock absorbing racquet handle comprising a hollow grip with a butt plate secured on the rear end thereof, a roughly disk shaped elastic element secured within the front end of the grip, an elastic cover secured over the front end of the grip, a shaft extending through a central hole in the cover and elastic element with the rear end thereof in proximity to the rear end of the grip, and a positioning pin secured within the rear portion of the grip and extending through a lateral through hole f...