Improvements in Cricketing Gloves and other Guards.
Year: 1897

page_text: I, FREDERICK HENRY SPRANG, of "Heatherbrae," Clarence Road, Wallington, in the
County of Surrey, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the protectors used on cricketing gloves and other guards
and it consists in covering the strips of rubber adapted to form the protectors with
strips of canvas or other fabric of such a width as to form flanges by which the
protectors can be sewn or otherwise attached to the gloves or guards.
Hitherto these protecting rubber strips have been fixed either direct on to the
gloves or other guards or on to fabric strips adapted to be sewn or otherwise attached
to the gloves or guards, but such constructions have the defect that the rubber strips
easily become detached....
By my invention, which consists in covering the rubber strip with a strip of fabric
so arranged as to form flanges round its base by which it can be sewn or otherwise
attached to the glove or other guard, it is impossible for the rubber strip to
become detached.
Dated this 27th day of March 1897.
Improvements in Cricketing Gloves and other Guards.
I, FREDERICK HENRY SPRANG, of "Heatherbrae," Clarence Road, Wallington, in
the County of Surrey, Manager of Works, 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 the protectors used on cricketing gloves and other
guards, and it consists in covering or partly encircling the rubber strips forming the
protective ridges with strips of canvas or other fabric of such a width as to form
flanges by which the protectors can be sewn or otherwise attached to the gloves or
guards.
Hitherto these protective ridges have been fixed by means of flanges formed at
their bases, the said flanges consisting of flanges formed on the rubber ridge pieces
and of a backing of canvas or other fabric, but this construction is defective inasmuch
as the rubber ridge pieces easily become detached from the canvas backing which is
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page_text: the element of strength in the attachment. By my invention the protective rubber
ridge pieces are covered or partly encircled by the fabric strips so that they cannot
possibly become detached when once fixed.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates this invention:-
Figure 1 is a view in transverse section,
Figure 2 is a broken view in plan, and
Figures 3 and 4 are views in transverse section of modifications.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The rubber protective ridge pieces A are made of the usual arch shape either with a
base piece a as shown by Figure 1 or without as shown by Figure 3. The sides and
crown of the arch of these pieces are covered or encircled with a strip of canvas or
other fabric B the margins or edges of which are arranged to form flanges b b at the
base of the ridge piece A thereby providing a means by which they may be sewn
or otherwise attached to the glove or other guard.
When the ridge piece A has no base part a it may be stiffened by means of a
second strip or fabric b¹ extending across its base and fixed to the margins 6 6 of the
strip B as shown by Figure 4.
The fabric strip B is preferably faced or treated with rubber but this is not obligatory.
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 :-
(1) The improvements in cricketing gloves and other guards, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
(2) Providing for the attachment of rubber protective ridges to gloves and other
guards by covering or partly encircling them with strips of canvas or other fabric,
the arrangement being such that the edges or margins of the fabric strips form
flanges by which the protective ridges can be fixed, as set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1807
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc, M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.