Improvements in Skipping. Ropes.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE OFECIFICATION.
Improvements in Skipping. Ropes.
I, THOMAS FARRAR of Standleigh Whitefield Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Inventor and Patentee do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This invention relates to skipping ropes or toys that are formed of a cord or rope
with a handle at each end and are used by children for skipping.
The object of this invention is to prevent the cord or rope getting knotted or
twisted while in use and to cause the rope to wear or last longer than is the case
with the present form of rope.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Fig. 1 represents a skipping rope formed in accordance with this invention. In
this view one of the handles is shown partly in section.
Figs. 2 and 3 represent modifications in the form of handle and as hereinafter
described.
Fig. 3 is shown partly in section.
In this invention 1 form that part of the handle to which the end of the cord or
rope is attached with a loose end in order that when the handles are held in the
hands and the rope is swung round in the usual manner the head of the handle to
which each of the ends of the rope is attached may swivel.
The method of connecting the swivel portion of the handle to which the
end of the rope is attached to the body of the handle, will admit of many
modifications. In Fig. 1 the part of the handle a which is held in the hand
terminates at a¹.
I form a collar b of any preferred design and secure the end of the rope in the
groove & formed in said collar. In order to connect the collar b to the handle a I
form a celluloid or other ball with a spindle e attached thereto. I pass this
spindle through aforesaid swivel collar 6 and insert in a recess of formed in
the end a¹ of the handle a. I secure the spindle in the recess by means of
the pin h.
The collar b with the end of the rope c is connected to the handle a and retained
by the ball d which permits said collar to revolve or swivel in accordance with the
action of the rope.
I form the rope c thicker in the middle portion than a the ends in order to resist
the additional wear to which that part of the rope is liable.
Fig. 2 is a modification of my invention and represents the end of the rope c
connected to a bow shaped swivel which may be secured to the handle a by a screwed
or other form of stud e at one end of the ferrule g, and a celluloid or other ball d
with a stud attached at the opposite end of said ferrule.
Fig. 3 represents the end of the rope e passed through and secured to the swivel
collar b, said collar being connected to the handle by the celluloid or other ball d
and the screw e.
Fig. 4 is a modification of my invention in which the swivel movement is obtained
by means of a ball d, to which the end of the rope is attached, being confined within
a cup g that is secured to the end of the handle a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1st. In a skipping rope or toy that is formed of a cord or rope with a handle
et each end and need by children for skinning the method of attaching the ends of

page_text: the cord to said handles by means of a swivel collar for the purpose and in the
manner substantially as herein before described.
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2nd. In a skipping rope or toy that is formed of a cord or rope with a handle at
each end, and used by children for skipping, the employment of a cord or rope that
is formed thicker in the centre portion than at the ends, in the manner and for the 5
purpose substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 5th day of October 1901
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate,.Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.