A sports racket having a head including a frame within which is strung a plurality of string elements interconnected in such a manner to provide substantially concave ball-engaging surfaces on each face of the racket head.

A wheelchair specially adapted for use in wheelchair sports is provided. An adjustable linking member between the wheelchair support struts is provided for permitting selective adjustment of the camber of the wheels and for permitting a "sway bar" action for greater stability. Further features provide adjustable positioning of the wheels and the casters for a selective preferred balance of maneuverability and stability.

The strings of a tennis racquet are tensioned by passing over a liquid-containing flexible tube in the frame of the racquet with means provided in the handle of the racquet for providing pressure to the liquid in the tube to increase or decrease the tension of the strings.

A safety ski binding whereby a ski is secured detachably to a ski boot including an electrical or electronic device connected to a supply of electricity. A switch is located between the device and supply and includes a moveable part which is actuated automatically when the ski is fitted to the boot or removed from the boot. The switch may either be a normally open switch or a normally closed switch.

A composite sports racket frame having a head portion subject to loading is provided with an integral arrangement of resin impregnated braided tow tubes and a layer of tow disposed in wound fashion between part of the braided tows. A method of making a sports racket frame by winding a resin impregnated tow about part of a braided tow tube and placing a second braided tow tube to form an assembly that is internally pressurized and heat cured is disclosed.

This invention relates to a sports net and the mounting structure therefor which are of some height and width used for play or practice of golf, tennis, basketball, baseball or the like and secured to a one or two car garage and mounted in the garage above the top frame. The netting is of scrim, i.e., a coarse, open weave fabric on a plastic roller with a reel and axle support means for storing and lowering the netting. The sports net may be used in the garage for golf or tennis practice in incl...

This invention relates to a new and improved sports racket having head, neck and handle portions where the head portion is in a plane different from but parallel to the handle portion so that a player's form, power and timing may be significantly improved without special training.

The sports bra comprises two front panel sections with each front panel section being a mirror image of the other and including a main body portion and an upwardly extending wide strap forming portion and a rear panel section including a body portion and two upwardly extending wide strap forming portions. The body portion of the rear panel section is attached on each side edge thereof to one of the main body portions of one of the front panel sections and the upper ends of each strap forming por...

A stringing arrangement for a sports racket which compensates for twisting of the racket in the hand of the user when a ball is hit by areas of the racket to either side of a substantially flat middle region which extends from the heel to the tip of the racket frame. The stringing arrangement presents spaced string areas to opposite faces of the racket from the middle region outwardly to the sides of the racket frame. These spaced string areas become progressively farther from the plane of the s...

A sports glove which includes a glove body, a plurality of open-ended stub fingers, a palm portion made of a flexible material, a flexible strap attached at a fixed end thereof to the palm portion and having a free end fitted with loop material, and a patch of hook material attached to the stub fingers. The strap is looped about a sports implement to be grasped and the free end of the strap is attached to the glove body by the connection formed between the patches of hook and loop material. In u...