Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Balls for Playing Golf, Tennis, Cricket, and like Games
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1898-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1898
PROVIDIONAL DETA
Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Balls for Playing
Golf, Tennis, Cricket, and like Games,
I, ERNEST KINGSCOTE, of 31, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, in the
County of London, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide balls for playing golf, tennis, cricket,
and like games, which balls are very durable and capable of retaining their
proper shape for a long time, not being liable to be readily indented, or injured,
in use.
According to this invention the balls are made from the wool of sheep, lambs, or
other animals, which wool is felted, or caused to become a coherent mass by
suitable means, the consolidation of the wool fibres being effected by pressure.
Where the balls require to be heavier than they would be if made of the said
material alone, they may have combined with their substance, or contained
within them, a material which will give the necessary weight to the balls. There
may also be combined with the said material any waterproofing, or other matter,
to give the necessary character to the balls to fit them for the particular pur-
pose for which they are to be used. The balls may be made homogeneous
throughout, or they may have the material which gives them additional weight
contained within them as a core, and, in this case, the wool, or combination of
wool with waterproofing, or other, matter, may be formed around the core, or
the ball may first be made and then be divided and the recess for the core be made
therein and the parts be cemented together after the core is put in place.
Doted this 9th day of September 1897.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Production of Balls for Playing
Golf, Tennis, Cricket, and like Games.
I, ERNEST KINGSCOTE, of 31, Lower, Seymour Street, Portman Square, in the
County of London, Physician, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 this invention is to provide balls for playing golf, tennis, cricket
and like games, which balls are very durable and capable of retaining their

page_text: proper shape for a long time, not being liable to be readily indented or injured
in use.
According to this invention the balls are made from the wool of sheep, lambs or
other animals, which wool is felted, or caused to become a coherent mass by
suitable means, the consolidation of the wool fibres being effected by pressure.
Where the balls require to be heavier than they would be if made of the said
material alone, they may have combined with their substance or contained
within them, a material which will give the necessary weight to the balls. There
may also be combined with the said material any waterproofing, or other matter
to give the necessary character to the balls to fit them for the particular pur-
pose for which they are to be used. The balls may be made homogeneous
throughout, or they may have the material which gives them additional weight
contained within them as a core, and, in this case, the wool, or combination of
wool with waterproofing, or other matter may be formed around the core, or
the ball may first be made and then be divided and the recess for the core be made
therein and the parts be cemented together after the core is put in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
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1st. Balls for playing golf, tennis, cricket and like games, made of animal
wool fibre felted or caused to become a coherent mass and consolidated by pres-
sure.
2nd. Balls for playing golf, tennis, cricket and like games made of animal
wool fibres felted and consolidated in combination with waterproofing or weight
giving material substantially as hereinbefore described.
3rd. Balls for playing golf, tennis, cricket, and like games having an outer
part made of felted animal wool fibres in combination with water-proofing
material and a core of material to give to the ball the necessary weight sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 11th dov of July 1898
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.