Tubular shrunk-on cover or shrunk-on sleeve for grips of sports equipment and articles of daily use such as tennis rackets, bicycle handlebars and the like

摘要

Cylindrical covering material for grips of sports equipment and articles of daily use, such as tennis and squash rackets, bicycle handlebars, tool grips and the like. The grip covering of sports rackets, inter alia, is usually carried out by using grip ribbons or flexible fabric tubes. Characteristic of both methods is that they form only a latent connection with the grip substrate, wear quickly and are not very easy to put on for the inexperienced. In addition, the commercially available soft grip ribbons guarantee a secure grip position only until a given degree of moisture is reached. The new grip covering is to form a firm connection with the grip substrate, exhibit moisture-absorbing and adhering properties, be easy to put on and exhibit high material strength. To give the grip cover a secure hold on the grip substrate, and also to achieve a secure grip position of the hand on the surface of the grip cover, a cylindrical, knitted or woven covering material, which contains water-shrinkable connecting and/or main yarns and moisture-absorbing and/or adhering gassed cotton yarns or surface yarns, is pushed over the object to be covered and subsequently shrunk on by the addition of water and dried. The covering material is suitable for putting on raw grips of tennis rackets and the like - even after their hand-ergonomic shaping - and also ... Original abstract incomplete.