A Ball adaptable for the Use of Ladies and Juveniles in Playing Cricket and other Games.
Year: 1895

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Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd.Nov., 1.95
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Ball adaptable for the Use of Ladies and Juveniles in Playing
Cricket and other Games.
WALTER JOHN CECIL NICHOLSON Collector of Taxes 58 Gracechurch Street
London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to an improved construction of a play ball, suitable for the
use of ladies; resulting in creating a ball of much lighter and less dangerous
characteristics than the standard cricket ball now commonly employed.
To carry the improvement into effect it is necessary to provide, three, or four,
or more, hollow, air tight, sections; of equal dimensions, made of india-rubber or
a composition thereof; each section having the proportionate form of one third
part, or of one fourth part, or of more, equal parts, of a globe, of predetermined size.
On the sections being placed together, pieces of felt or similar material are stuck
between the inner surfaces, so that the rubber sections do not touch each other, yet
adhere together to form by that means one whole. This globular ball is then
surrounded by carefully bossing with felt, or other material, the same being
stitched on; completing the formation of the quilt. Dressed cow-hide or leather
is now stitched thereon in the customary manner of making cricket balls.
The circumference adopted is that of the regulation ball of 9 to 9 inches; but
the principle is not limited to any particular size, and is applicable to form footballs
of large dimensions.
This 20th day of January 1905
A Ball adaptable for the Use of Ladies and Juveniles in Playing
Cricket and other Games.
I, WALTER JOHN CECIL NICHOLSON, of 58 Gracechurch Street, in the City
of London, Collector of Taxes, 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 :--
The object of my invention is to construct a play ball of light weight to serve
as a substitute for the heavy form of cricket ball heretofore in use, said ball being
thereby adapted for use by ladies and juveniles in playing cricket and like games.
According to my invention I make the play ball of two or more hollow and
equal sections secured to a central web or core. Preferably I make the ball of
four such sections each made of hollow india-rubber or like distensible material
and of quadrantal triangle shape, that is to say, each section is of the shape of a
quarter of a sphere. These four sections are each independently secured to a
central core or web of felt, rubber, canvas or other suitable material made up in
the form of two diameters of the sphere at right angles so as to contain four equal
spaces into which the quadrantal triangle shaped sections are fitted. The ball so
made is covered with thin vulcanized india-rubber, waterproof felt or other suitable

page_text: material or materials so as to keep the parts of the ball firmly in position and
provide the requisite outer casing or casings of the ball.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner, the same is to be performed. I declare that what I
claim is :-
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A play ball made up of india-rubber or other distensible hollow sections of a
sphere independently secured to a felt or other central core or web and enclosed in
a suitable casing or casings substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 16th day of October 1895.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.