Racket and method of stringing the racket

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for stringing a racket comprises inserting an end of a first string through a first grommet located along a frame of the racket, and re-inserting the end of the string through a second grommet. The second grommet is non-adjacent to the first grommet.

1 . A method for stringing a racket, comprising: 
 inserting an end of a first string through a first grommet located along a frame of the racket; and    re-inserting the end of the string through a second grommet, the second grommet being non-adjacent to the first grommet.    
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a third grommet is interposed between the first grommet and the second grommet located on a first edge of the racket.  
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein inserting a second string through the third grommet, the second string operating as a string segment in parallel with a string segment formed by the first string inserted through the first grommet.  
   
   
       4 . The method of  claim 2  further comprising: 
 inserting an end of a second string through a fourth grommet located along a second edge of the frame of the racket, the second edge of the frame being opposite the first edge of the frame;    inserting the end of the second string through the third grommet; and    re-inserting the end of the second string through a fifth grommet adjacent to the second grommet and non-adjacent to the third grommet.    
   
   
       5 . The method of  claim 4  further comprising: 
 alternating an orientation of the first string from operating as a main string to operating as a cross string being transverse to the main string by inserting the first string into a sixth grommet in a first direction and reinserting the first string into a seventh grommet in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction.    
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 5 , wherein the sixth grommet is adjacent to the seventh grommet.  
   
   
       7 . The method of  claim 5  further comprising: 
 alternating an orientation of the second string from operating as a main string to operating as a cross string being transverse to the main string by inserting the second string into an eighth grommet in the first direction and reinserting the second string into a ninth grommet in the second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and    continuing a pattern by feeding the first string and the second string into non-adjacent grommets along the frame of the racket.    
   
   
       8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the racket includes at least fourteen main strings and at least eighteen cross strings.  
   
   
       9 . A racket comprising: 
 a frame including an substantially elliptical head and including a plurality of grommets situated along an edge of the frame; and    a string bed formed by a plurality of strings inserted through the plurality of grommets, the string bed comprises (i) a first string operating as a first string segment of the string bed, and after insertion through a first grommet and re-inserted into a second grommet non-adjacent to the first grommet, operating as a second string segment of the string bed, and (ii) a second string operating as a third string segment of the string bed interposed between the first string segment and the second string segment, and after insertion through a third grommet positioned between the first grommet and the second grommet and re-insertion through a fourth grommet adjacent to the second grommet, operating as a fourth string segment of the string bed.    
   
   
       10 . The racket of  claim 9 , wherein the first string segment, the second string segment, the third string segment and the fourth string segment are oriented in parallel across the head of the frame.  
   
   
       11 . The racket of  claim 9 , wherein an end of the first string is external to the frame after insertion through the first grommet.  
   
   
       12 . The racket of  claim 9 , wherein the string bed commences with a loop where, prior to the first string being inserted through the first grommet, a first end of the string is patterned in a loop fed through a first pair of grommets located at a corner of the head, a second pair of grommets located at a next corner of the head and a third pair of grommets located at a third corner of the head, through each of which corners the direction of the string segment so formed reorients by approximately a right angle.  
   
   
       13 . A racket comprising: 
 a frame including a plurality of grommets situated along an edge of the frame; and    a string bed formed by a plurality of strings fed through the plurality of grommets in a selected pattern, the selected pattern of the string bed comprises 
 a first string inserted through a first grommet of the plurality of grommets and re-inserted through a second grommet being non-adjacent to the first grommet, and  
 a second string inserted through a third grommet positioned between the first grommet and the second grommet and, the second string re-inserted through a fourth grommet adjacent to the second grommet and non-adjacent to the third grommet.  
   
   
   
       14 . The racket of  claim 13 , wherein the first string and the second string operate as main strings being substantially in parallel.  
   
   
       15 . The racket of  claim 13 , wherein the first string operates as at least a first string segment and a second string segment after re-insertion into the string bed through the second grommet.  
   
   
       16 . The racket of  claim 15 , wherein the second string operates as at least a third string segment and a fourth string segment after re-insertion into the string bed through the fourth grommet.  
   
   
       17 . The racket of  claim 16 , wherein the string bed includes at least fourteen string segments, including the first string segment, the second string segment, the third string segment and the fourth string segment in parallel, and at least eighteen string segments transverse to the at least fourteen string segments.