Improvements in Handles for Bats and Clubs for Games, Whips, and Fishing Rods.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Bats and Clubs for Games, Whips,
and Fishing Rods.
SAMUEL HARRIS LEVI Shepperton Cottage Shepperton Middlesex Inventor
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An invention to strengthen give lightness flexibility strength and greater driving
power to cricket bats, tennis raquets, polo sticks, golf clubs, base ball and la crosse
sticks whip handles and fishing rod handles.
An incision is made down the centre of a number of pieces of cane or other
material of a like nature which are glued and carefully compressed anl in this
incision a sheet or sheets of aluminium or other light and flexible metal of a similar
character and specific gravity which has or have already been securely fastened
with a specially prepared cement between two or more sheets of flexible india-
rubber, this combination is placed in the incision and cemented to the sides of it
the whole forming one solid mass which is then inserted into a compressed blade
of willow in the case of a cricket-bat, and in other articles in the same or similar
manner as the case may be, and fastened thereto by the usual processes used in the
manufacture of cricket bats and other mentioned articles.
In the case of a cricket bat the handle is then bound in the customary way with
waxed threads and the bat is polished and finished as an ordinary cricket bat, and
in the other articles the same process is carried on in the same way as each article
is usually made.
Dated this 31st day of January 1896.
SAMUEL HARRIS LEVI.
Improvements in Handles for Bats and Clubs for Games, Whips,
and Fishing Rods.
I, SAMUEL HARRIS LEVI, of Shepperton Cottage, Shepperton, Middlesex,
Inventor, 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 handles of cricket bats, tennis
racquets, polo, base ball, and la crosse sticks, golf clubs, whips, fishing rods, and
the like and has for its object to increase the strength, lightness, flexibility and
driving power of such articles. For this purpose I introduce into such handles
one or more strips, bands or cores of aluminium or other light and flexible metal
of a similar character securely fastered by cement or otherwise between two or
more sheets, strips, or covers of india rubber, the whole being cemented into a
recess or incision formed in the beforementioned handles.

page_text: In order to illustrate my invention I will proceed to describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawing by way of example in which
Figure 1 represents a front view of a cricket bat,
Figure 2 an edge view partly in section on line 1-1 of Figures 1 and 3, and
Figure 3 a transverse section on line 2-2 of Figure 2.
A is the blade of the bat with the handle B spliced thereto in any well known
manner. The handle B may be formed of strips of cane or other suitable material
glued and carefully compressed in the usual well known manner. A recess or
incision is made in the handle B longitudinally of the said handle and on a plane
parallel to the face of the blade A, as shewn in Figures 2 and 3. C is a strip of
aluminium for example, to each side of which is cemented a strip of indiarubber D
which strips are also cemented to the sides of the recess or incision, the whole thus
forming a solid compound handle which is then inserted into the compressed blade B
in any ordinary and well known manner. The handle is then bund with waxed
thread and the bat finished according to requirements.
In manufacturing handles or other articles such as those herein before named the
aluminium strip, band or core may be shaped and intro.luced into such handles in a
variety of ways according to the shape and use of the article to which it is to be
applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In handles for cricket bats, tennis racquets, polo, base ball and la crosse stick,
golf clubs, whips, fishing rods and the like the employment of one or more strips,
bands, or cores, of aluminium or other suitable metal combined with indiarubber,
substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of Novemb1000
S. H. LEVI,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.