IMPROVED TENT PEGS OR TENNIS PEGS
Year: 1884

page_text: I HERBERT MANDER GOODMAN of 1 Temple Row West Birmingham Solicitor
of the Supreme Court, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED
TENT PEGS OR TENNIS PEGS to be as follows:-
It consists of a head neck and blade which latter is wide across the shoulders
and tapers to a point at its extremity.
The blade may either be flat, (in which case it resembles the blade of a broad
dagger), or somewhat similar in shape to the blade of a gardener's trowel but more
pointed, or preferably it has two flanges which meet at an angle forming a ridge
down the back. It may with advantage be made thicker down the centre and
thinner.at the edges.
The neck, (to which the rope or other straining medium is attached), is set
midway between the shoulders, and the head crowns the neck preventing the rope
or other straining medium from slipping over the top of the peg and presenting a
good surface for striking when the peg is being driven into the ground. The neck
and head may be of any convenient shape.
The feature of novelty is the making of a peg with a blade broad across the
shoulders and tapering to a point at its extremity.
The peg and all its parts may be made of such material and of such size or
proportionate sizes and the curve or angle (if any) of the blade may be of such
degree as may be found most suitable for the special purpose and under the
particular circumstances to and in which it is to be applied.
I claim that this shaped peg has the following advantages namely, The blade
being tapered to a point it drives into the ground easily, wedges itself in firmly,
and yet may be readily extracted without any serious injury to or disturbance of
the turf or soil; having a wide grip it makes a very firm boldfast and is not liable
to pull up the soil or turf in front of it with any ordinary strain.. The curved and
angular blades have the additional advantage of extra strength and also prevent
the peg from twisting sideways in the ground.
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page_text: I HERBERT MANDER GOODMAN of 1 Temple Row West Birmingham Solicitor
of the Supreme Court do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED.
TENT PEGS OR TENNIS PEGS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
The Peg is made of maleable iron or other suitable material.
It consists of a head neck and blade all in the same straight line and all in one
piece.
The blade is wide across the shoulders and tapers to a point at its extremity; it
may either be flat (in which case it resembles the blade of a broad dagger), or
somewhat similar in shape to the blade of a gardeners trowel, but more pointed at
the extremity, or preferably it has two flanges which meet at an angle forming a
ridge down the back; it may with advantage be made of thicker inaterial down
the centre and thinner at the edges.
The neck (to which the rope or other straining medium is attached) is a short
cylindrical column set midway between the shoulders.
The head crowns the neck and projects laterally over it in such a way as to
prevent the rope or other straining medium from slipping over the top of the peg,
and presents a good surface for striking when the peg is being driven into tho
ground; it may be of any convenient shape which will answer the above purposes.
The peg and all its parts may be made of such size or proportionate sizes, and
the curve or angle (if any) of the blade may be of such degree as may be found
most suitable for the special purpose & under the particular circumstances to and
in which it is to be applied.
The shape of these pegs-facilitates-their-being-driven-into the ground, and their
extraction from the ground, and increases the ratio of their resisting power to their
weight.
"Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1 The making of metallic Tent or Tennis Pegs of the above description the
special feature of novelty being in the shape of the blade, its breadth across the
shoulders tapering to a point at its extremity.
Dated thin 1941 Jai 100%