Abstract: A composite racquetball racquet comprises a molded synthetic plastic frame member on which is adhesively bonded a generally U-shaped channel and a synthetic plastic bumper strip is adhesively bonded over the channel outer periphery at the outer head portion of the frame. Mechanical interlock formations are provided between the plastic frame member and the metal channel side walls.

Abstract: A composite racquetball racquet comprises a molded synthetic plastic frame member on which is adhesively bonded a generally U-shaped channel and a synthetic plastic bumper strip is adhesively bonded over the channel outer periphery at the outer head portion of the frame. Mechanical interlock formations are provided between the plastic frame member and the metal channel side walls.

Abstract: A game racquet has a composite metal-plastic frame intermediately defining a head and having opposite ends within a handle, there being external plastic strips laterally located on the head, a wide strip around the outer part of the head and narrower strips extending from opposite ends of the wide strip into the handle, and the handle comprising a housing wherein the frame ends are secured together and to the housing and wherein the remaining space is occupied by foamed polyurethane.

Abstract: A game racquet having a metal frame member that is of greatest size in the outer head region for increased weight there and which at opposite sides of the head is of stepped successively decreasing size toward the racquet handle, the throat region being relatively flexible as compared to the head regions outwardly thereof.

Abstract: A racketball racket comprises a metal frame in the form of a single strip of metal of substantially uniform cross-section bent intermedially to provide a head portion that defines the striking area and merges through a reversely curved throat portion to side by side ends for providing a handle portion and a rigid throat piece element extending across said frame at the throat portion and defining the inner margin of said striking area. The opposite ends of the throat element are attached to said strip at said throat portion by tongue and slot connection regions wherein the lateral flexibility of the frame is maintained substantially the same as in other parts of the frame in the head portion. In making the racket the string receiving holes in the head and the slots for mounting the throat piece element are formed in the strip after it has been bent to the condition it assumes in the final assembly.

Abstract: A game racquet comprising a composite metal and plastic frame having a stringing section and a handle, the composite frame formed from an extruded metal channel member surrounding and substantially enclosing an extruded plastic core member, the extruded metal and plastic core member being bonded together to form a unitary metal-plastic composite frame, .Iadd.wherein the horizontal neutral axis of the core member is closely aligned with the horizontal neutral axis of the metal channel member .Iaddend.and a bumper strip covering the outer surface of the composite frame, the bumper strip having a central groove to receive and protect the stringing.