Benjamin Adam Kahn

US Patent:

40723127, Feb 7, 1978

Filed:

Jan 20, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/650689

Inventors:

Benjamin Kahn - Miami Beach FL

International Classification:

A63B 4908

US Classification:

273 75

Abstract:

A handle construction for racquets having opposing, flat ball-striking playing faces wherein the handle is of substantially octagonal outline of varying sized opposing surfaces, one pair of which are parallel to the playing faces of the racquet, the size variation between these opposing surfaces and other pairs of opposing surfaces among the composite surfaces of the handle are different to the degree that they are sensorially perceptive by sense of feel transmitted by impression gained only in the hand grip of the player without other observation. The determination of these surfaces involved at one or more of the corners of the handle's sectional outline is intensified to be more acute to the feel than the ordinary corner of a handle of normally octagonal outline of 135. degree. and more acute than nonrecessed or other corners, as to provide extra sensory perception felt through the player's grip only, as to the disposition of the playing faces throughout an entire swing of the racquet without prior or instant observation or other prior orientative discernment. A handle construction of tennis racquet character having extra sensory perception incorporated in the handle's perimeter surfaces as to their composite differences in size, shape and intensification of the corners or other elements comprising its cross-sectional outline including its girth and diametrical dimensional differences among the opposing pairs of surfaces.