An Improved Bat for Playing the Game of Cricket or such similar Games.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bat for Playing the Game of Cricket or such
similar Games.
We WILLIAM HENRY SLATTER of 91 Lancefield Street Kilburn, Decorator,
and COLLIN CHESTER of 17 North Street Edgeware Road Marylebone N.W.
Engineer both in the County of London do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
Our invention relates to an improved cricket bat, the handle shall be devided,
lengthwise of the handle, and the division or divisions, to extend into the blade of
the bat, any required distance; in the division or divisions shall be placed a strip,
or any number of strips, of steel or any other suitable metal, of any width and
substance that may be required, the ends of the strips at the lower end of the
handle, to be held ridged and secured either by glueing riveting or screwing or
any other suitable means, and left loose in the other portion of the handle, or may
be secured in the handle the whole distance of the strips, and may have leather
rubber or any other suitable material placed on either side or both sides of the
metal strips, round the outside of the handle shall be placed when desired at any
distance apart rings made of wire or metal strips or string gut or any other suitable
material to form binders to keep the strips in their proper position.
Dated this 19th day of September 1892.
WILLIAM HENRY SLATTER.
COLLIN CHESTER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bat for Playing the Game of Cricket or such
similar Games.
WILLIAM HENRY SLATTER of 91 Lancefield Street Kilburn Decorator
COLLIN CHESTER of 17 North Street Edgeware Road Marylebone N.W.
Engineer both in the County of London do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to an improved cricket bat, the handle of wich we devide
lengthwise, of the handle, with any number of divisions or with only one division,
the said division or divisions may extend any distance down the handle portion of
the bat, or shall extend into, the blade portion of the bat, any distance down that
shall be necessary, and any distance across the interior of the blade, either
extending from one side to the other, or only partly across the said blade, as may
be most convenient, or there shall be made into the blade of the bat by boreing
morticing, drilling, sawing or otherwise, holes, crevices, or curfes, straight down
the interior of the blade, at any required distance, parallel with the blade, or at
any angle across the blade, or towards the front or back of the blade. In the
division or divisions or any number of the divisions, there may or shall be placed
strips of steel, or any other suitable metal, or material, of any shape or size, either
flat, round, square, oval, or any other shape, in transverse form, for the purpose of
giving strength and elasticity to the handle portion of the bat, the said material
may or shall extend into the blade portion of the bat, below the line of the shoulders
of the blade, any required distance and shall there be held firm thereto by the means
of pluging, glueing, screwing, riveting or any such suitable means, but in tho
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page_text: handle portion, they shall be left free, so that they shall be free to move or work,
and they shall not be made as part of the handle, combined with the material
forming the handle; but they may be secured the whole distance, or any part of
the length of the handle for the purpose of keeping them in their proper position,
in the handle but not to prevent their free movement. In conjunction with the
strips of metal or other material, there may, or shall be placed peices of leather,
canvas, rubber, felt, or other suitable material, wich can be placed on either side,
or on both sides, or all round the strips of metal or other material, any distance of
their length, or any part of their length, or the whole of their length, and may or
shall extend down the handle portion, and into the blade portion of the bat, any
required distance, and may or shall be fixed at the strips of metal or material, by
any suitable means, and may or shall be left loose, and unatched to them, and may
or shall be fixed to the material forming the handle, by glueing, cementing,
wedging, or by any other suitable means, and may or shall be left loose and free
to move, independantly of the handle material, or the metal or other strips of
material. When their are
more crevices or divisions, in the handle than are
occupied by the strips of metal or other material, there shall, or may be placed
therein the leather, rubbia, canvas, or felt as before mentioned, the object being
to give the handle a easy and quiet movement the canvas, felt, or other material
used for the purpose, may be either used in its dry condition, or soaked or coated
with tallow, oil, blacklead, plumbago, chalk, or any suitable lubricating material,
the above applys to bats, and handles made as in the ordanary way of wood cane
or other hard material, but when the handles of the bats are made of rubber, or
other pliable material, the softening peices may not be necessary. The method of
making the divisions in the handle shall, or may be done when the handle is being
made of various peices, as in the case of ordanary cane handles, by leaving
devisions between the portions forming the handle, either previous or after splicing
or otherwise fixing the same to the blade of the bat, or by sawing or spliting. Or
after the handle has been fitted to the bat, and the bat has been completed aud
finished, or when the bat is made complete out of one peice of material, the
divisions can be made by sawing, splitting, or otherwise, down the handle and into
the blade of the bat when desired, any required distance, as before stated. This
being done, the material forming the handle are in seperate portions, so for the
purpose of keeping the handle in its proper form; round the outer portion of the
handle there may or shall be placed clips, or binders, or any number of binders,
or clips, of, metal, wire, gut, or string, or other suitable material, for the purpose
of keeping the portions of the handle in position. The top of the handle to be
left plain as in the case of ordanary bats with the exception of the divisions and
may, or shall be fitted with a cap made of metal, leather, rubbia, or any suitable
material wich shall act as a binder or clip for the purpose of keeping the top
portion of the handle in its proper form the clips or binders may be dispenced with
if desireable and only twine as used for binding the handles in the usual way if it
be found sufficent for the purpose, any material may be used for the outer covering
of the handle for the purpose of meeting the desired requirements of the user, such
as rubber, felt, leather, twine cork &c. &c. but to this we lay no claim as the
handle may be if so desired left without any outer covering and left only with the
material that the handle is composed of.
REFERENCE TO DRAWINGS.
D are
Fig. 1 represents a bat, with the handle spliced into the blade as in the ordinary
way; one half the handle shown in section exposing the metal or other material A.
inserted betwen the divisions in the handle C. B. is the blade of the bat.
the binders or clips for keeping the sections of the handle in position. E are the
screws plugs or rivets, when used to keep the material tight in the divisions.
Fig. 2. is a side view of the bat showing the divisions down the handle C. Cinto
the blade B. A is the metal or other material inserted in the divisions. F shows

page_text: the divisions left open without any material in them. D are the binders round the
handle. E E are the screws or plugs when used for keeping the material tight
in the divisions.
Fig. 3. is a side view showing more than one division down the handle C. C. and
into the blade B. D is the binders D 1. is a cap fitted to the top of the handle C..
to one of the sections leaving the other sections to work and move freely. Fis
open section under the cap D 1. F 1. shows the section filled with material up to
the top of handle under the cap.
Fig. 4. Fig. 5. and Fig. 6. are cross sections of the handle C. showing devisions
made parallel with the width of the blade. A is the material in the divisions.
X is the front. X 1 is the back.
Fig. 7. and Fig. 8. are cross sections of blade of bat B. at W. showing the
material A A. inserted in the divisions in the blade.
Fig. 9. is a view showing the interior of handle C. and part of blade B. showing
the material A. inserted in the divisions. C. C. C is the handle. B is the blade.
B1 are peices filled in the divisions after the material A. has been inserted for
the purpose of keeping it in position, and giving solidity to the shoulders of the
blade.
Fig. 10. is a side view of bat, showing more than one division, and filled
with material A. C is the handle. B is the blade. D are the clips round the
handle.
Fig. 11. is a cross section of blade of bat at W. W. B is the blade. A the
material in divisions in blade. B 1 are peicees filled in the divisions and fixing the
material A. as stated in Fig. 9.
Fig. 12. shows cap for top of handle D 1.
Fig. 13. top view of handle of bat showing the divisions F. F. C. C. C are the
portions of the handle.
Fig. 14. is a longitudinal view of the top of the handle of bat, as shown when
cap is used showing one portion of the handle left shorter than the other to allow
it to work, when the bandle is put in full tension. C. C. the handle. F the
division.
Fig. 15. is a view of the bat, showing the handle C. half as spliced the other as
made as part of the bat, and showing strips of round, square oblong, oval, or any
other such shape in transverse section, metal or other material, as extending down
the handle C. and into the blade B, showing the method of fixing the same either
straight down the blade as shown at G, or at any angle as shown at H.
Fig. 16. is a side view of bat with the handle C. strained back showing the
principal of the working and movement of the portions forming the handle C. A is
the metal or other material in the divisions. B is the blade of the bat.
Fig. 17. is a longitudinal section of the blade B. and part of handle C. A. is
the metal or other material extending towards the front of the blade X. or
towards the back X 1.
Fig. 18. is a cross section of the blade B. at W. W. showing the metal or other
material A. A. in the blade the dotted lines showing it extending towards the sides
of the bat.
A is
Figs. 19. 20. 21. and 22, are cross sections of handle C, showing the different
angles at wich the divisions can be made and the material inserted therein.
the material. C. the handle. X. is the front of handle. X 1 is the back.
This invention may be fitted to bats specialy constructed for the purpose or to
bats already made or to bats that may be hereafter made of any material or shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
First. A bat for playing the game of cricket or such simular games with division
or divisions down the handle the whole or any distance and into the blade of the
bat when desired.

page_text: Secondly. That the said division or divisions may or shall have inserted therein
metal or any other material suitable for the purpose.
Thirdly. That what we claim is a cricket bat with its handle formed with
seperation or any number of seperations or divisions longitudinally, with an object
of giving a free movement to the materal forming the handle and to give it a
great amount of elasticaty.
The same to be made and constructed and for the purposes as herein specified.
Dated this 19th day of June.
WILLIAM HENRY SLATTER.
COLLIN CHESTER.