Improvements in Rackets or the like Implerdents for Use in Playing Games.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rackets or the like Implerdents for Use in
Playing Games.
I, FREDERICK HENRY AYRES of 111 Aldersgate Street, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to he as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvenients in the construction of rackets or the like
implements for use in playing games, of the character described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to me and dated the 28th day of February 1885
No. 2721 and is designed to prevent the inconvenience arising from the layers
separating should the racket be left exposed to the action of moisture as by being
left out at night or in rain ou grass.
Layers upon layers of the same or different woods are cemented together with
the aid of pressure and fastened by rivets or screws of metal, plugs of wood, or
other suitable binding means applied in equivalent manner.
In place of using layers of wood wholly layers of xylonite, linoleum, cork,
leather, rubber, cane, may be incorporated.
The form of metal rivet I have found most convenient consists of a headed pin
and a washer with rounded and flat faces the pin being inserted through the thick-
nesses of the wooden frame of the racket at intervals and the washer placed over
the end of the pin and rivetted off securely, this rivetted end lying recessed in flush
with or slightly projecting with rounded surface, from the frame.
Dated the 24th day of May 1894.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Rackets or the like Implements for Use in
Playing Games.
I, FREDERICK HENRY AYRES, of 111 Aldersgate Street in the City of
London, Manufacturer, 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 improvements in the construction of rackets or the like
implements for use in playing games, of the character described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to me and dated the 28th day of February 1885,
No. 2721 and is designed to prevent the inconvenience arising from the layers
separating should the racket be left exposed to the action of moisture as by being
left out at night or in rain on grass.

page_text: Fig. 2 shews my improvements applied to a racket frame of another construction
sufficient of the frame being shewn as will serve to illustrate the invention.
Layers upon layers of the same or different woods are cemented together with
the aid of pressure and fastened by rivets or screws of metal, plugs of wood, or other
suitable binding means applied in equivalent manner.
In place of using layers of wood wholly layers of xylonite, linoleum, cork, leather
rubber, cane may be incorporated.
The form of metal rivet I have found most convenient consists of a headed pin a
and a washer b with rounded and flat faces, the pin a being inserted through the
thicknesses c of the frame of the racket at intervals and the washer & placed
over the end of the pin and rivetted off securely, this rivetted end lying recessed
in flush with or slightly projecting with rounded surface, from the frame. In
the example shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, the washer b is recessed flush with the frame
and the head of the pin or rivet a projects slightly and is formed with rounded
outer surface.
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 improved racket or like implement for use in playing games consisting in
forming the framing of the head of the racket of layer on layer of the same or
different woods, or wood and xylonite, linoleum, cork, leather, rubber or cane,
cemented together and fastened by rivets or screws of metal, plugs of wood or like
binding means as set forth.
2. The construction or arrangement of the component parts of a racket head
frame for use in playing games as set forth.
Dated the 23rd day of February 1895.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.