Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 1st Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 11th Nov., 1887
RESERVE
I, RALPH SLAZENGER 56 Cannon Street London Merchant do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A new Game which I call Badminton Tennis, combining the characteristics of
Lawn Tennis & Badminton I form the courts by means of a material laid on the floor
size & shape required which material is of such a nature that when the object called
a tivey strikes on the court a sound is emitted enabling the opponent to know by the
sound if the tivey strikes in or out of his adversaries court.
The tivey is of a spherical or other convenient form having a light outstanding
substance fixed on one side (such as feathers or other analagous material) causing the
tivey to travel less rapidly thro' the air than ordinary tennis Balls.
Total thin Second day of Darautir 1000
RALPH SLAZENGER.

page_text: I, RALPH SLAZENGER, of 56 Cannon Street, London, Merchant, do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to he performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
My invention consists of a new Game which I intend to call Badminton Tennis,
combining the characteristics of Lawn Tennis and Badminton.
The materials required in playing this new game, consist of two movable courts
formed of any suitable material, and of any required size and shape, but preferably
of Japanese paper; which courts may be moved to any required position; also a not
and standards, and a projectile called a "Tivy," and Tennis bats for striking
the tivy.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan of
the Courts and net, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the Tivy.
a a are the Courts, preferably formed of Japanese paper, or of other suitable
material and preferably, but not exclusively, such material as emits a sound when the
Tivy strikes it, so that the opponent may know by the sound whether the Tivy strikes
in or out of his adversaries court. bis the net, stretched between two standards c c.
d (Fig. 2) is the Tivy, of a spherical form, and having light air resisting material
on one side of the same (such as feathers) causing the Tivy to travel less rapidly
through the air than ordinary tennis balls.
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 what
I claim is
1. The method of and means and appliances for playing a new game, substantially
as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
2. The application and use of movable Courts formed of Japanese paper or other
suitable material substantially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
3. The application and use of the improved spherical Tivy, substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described and shewn in Fig. 2 of the drawings.
4. The general arrangement and combination of the several and respective parts,
together forming my invention of a new game, substantially as herein before described
and shewn on the drawings.