Ball can carrier attachment for tennis racket covers

Claim 2

A web attachment for holding a tubular ball container to a cover for a stringed racket of the type having at least one planar outer cover surface, said attachment comprising: a rectangular frame consisting of four segments of pliable ribbon joined at their ends; a fifth segment of pliable ribbon secured at one of its ends to the midpoint of one of said four segments and lying exteriorly to said frame and terminating in a free end; and adhesive means provided on two of said four segments and said free end for attachment of the web to the cover surface.

Claim 3

The web of claim 1 wherein said pliable ribbon is also elastic ribbon.

Claim 4

The web of claim 1 wherein said adhesive means is a coating of contact adhesive normally covered by release sheet means removable for exposing said adhesive prior to attachment to the cover surface.

Claim 5

The web of claim 1 wherein said adhesive means comprise hook-and-loop strip means.

Claim 6

In a racket cover having two cover faces joined along common edges for receiving a stringed racket therebetween, the improvement comprising: a web having a rectangular frame consisting of four segments of pliable ribbon joined at their ends, and a fifth segment of pliable ribbon exterior to said frame but connected transversely to one of said four segments and terminating in a free end; adhesive means provided on two of said four segments and said free end for attachment of the web to the cover surface; and two of said four segments secured by said adhesive means to an outer surface of said racket cover in mutually parallel relationship spaced apart by substantially less than the length of each of the outer two of said four segments to form loops adapted to receive the circumference of a cylindrical ball container and hold the container to the racket cover; said free end being adhesively secured to said surface for supporting one end of the ball container against axial displacement through said loops.

Claim 7

In a racket cover having two cover faces joined along common edges for receiving a stringed racket therebetween, the improvement comprising: a web having a rectangular frame consisting of four segments of pliable ribbon joined at their ends, and a fifth segment of pliable ribbon exterior to said frame but connected transversely to one of said four segments and terminating in a free end; adhesive means provided on two of said four segments and said free end for attachment of the web to the cover surface; and two of said four segments secured by said adhesive means to an outer surface of said racket cover in mutually parallel relationship spaced apart by substantially less than the length of each of the outer two of said four segments to form loops adapted to receive the circumference of a cylindrical ball container and hold the container to the racket cover; said free end being adhesively secured to said surface for supporting one end of the ball container against axial displacement through said loops.

Claim 8

The improvement of claim 5 wherein said cover has a closed end and an opposite handle end, and said web is oriented on said racket cover with said fifth segment aligned between said ends and said adhesively secured end proximal to said closed end.