IMPROVEMENTS IN LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER RACKET BATS
Year: 1885

page_text: I GEORGE HENRY KENNING of 1 Little Britain in the City of London Ware-
houseman do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER RACKET BATS to be as follows:-
My invention refers to the employment of a new or improved material for the
stringing of lawn tennis and other racket bats, and the object of my invention is
to produce lawn tennis and other racket bats which while being strongly strung
are, at the same time impervious either to damp, alterations of temperature or
attacks of vermin and not liable to get loose, as is the case with bats strung with
cat gut and a large increase in the velocity which can be imparted to the ball
from bats strung according to my invention.
According to my invention I make the material with which the bat is strung of
an inner substance core or base consisting of silk, cotton, worsted hemp or other
fibrous material and in some cases of cat gut but I prefer a material which is soft
and at the same time possessing some amount of elasticity; over this material
I wind metallic or metal wire which may be done by hand or machine in any
suitable and approved manner and this wire is wound over the core or base as
closely together as possible. The material thus made is particularly suitable for
stringing rackets of all kinds, and bats strung with it possess the advantages before
mentioned. Racket bats are strung with material made in the manner before
described in any approved way.
BREWER & JENSEN,
For the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE
BEBULICATION.
Improvements in Lawn Tennis and other Racket Bats.
I GEORGE HENRY KENNING of 1 Little Britain in the City of London, Ware-
houseman 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 :-
My invention refers to the employment of a new or improved material for the
stringing of lawn tennis and other racket bats, and the object of my invention is
to produce lawn tennis and other racket bats which while being strongly strung
are at the same time impervious either to damp alterations of temperature, or
attacks of vermin, and the strings are not liable to get loose as is the case with
bats strung with cat gut, and a large increase in the velocity which can be
imparted to the ball from bats strung according to my invention is obtained.
According to my invention I make the material with which the bat is strung, of
an inner substance core or base consisting of cat gut, silk, cotton, worsted, hair,
hemp or any other suitable fibrous material. I prefer to employ a fibrous material,
preferably silk, for the core or base which is soft and at the same time possessing
some amount of elasticity; over this material I wind wire which may be done by
hand or machine in any suitable and approved manner and this wire is wound over
the core or base as closely together as possible. The material thus made is
particularly suitable for stringing rackets of all kinds, and bats strung with it
possess the advantages before mentioned. Racket bats are strung with material
made in the manner before described in any approved way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I am
aware that it has heretofore been proposed to string lawn tennis bats with metal
cord but I lay no claim to the employment of such metal cord for such purpose
alone or separately, but what I claim is
In lawn tennis and other racket bats, the stringing of same with string made
with a core or base of soft material such as one of, or a combination of, the materials
before mentioned closely and tightly covered with wire all substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore described.