IMPROVEMENTS IN STRIKING BAGS FOR MANUAL EXERCISING
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
J, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert and Company, Patent
Agents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN STRIKING BAGS FOR MANUAL
EXERCISING, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention relates to improvements in striking-bags for exercising. The
object of my Invention is to provide an elastic bag with an outer covering to
protect it from wear and from being torn by the attachments.
A further object is to provide clastic attachments by means of which the bag,
when forced to one side by a blow, will return quickly toward the buffeter.
In the Drawings Fig. 1 is an olevation of my improved bag and attachments.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation with a portion of the outer bag broken away.
A represents an elastic bag preferably of rubber, and distended with air. The
bag may be provided with a small flexible tube, a, for inflating it, and that may be
closed by compression, for instance, by tying or otherwise. The elastic bag is
enclosed in and protected by the bag B, that is preferably of strong canvas, but
may be made of any suitable material.
This outer bag may be closed at one end, and a small slit left at the other end,
through which, the elastic bag, when collapsed, may be inserted. Suitable loops or
other devices are secured to each end of the bag B for the attachment of such supports
as may be used. The bag is secured at a suitable height for convenience of the
operator, and is held by such elastic attachments, that, when it is struck, it will
fly back some distance and quickly return. A preferable means of supporting the
bag is a cord, b, attached to the ceiling or other structure above and to the loop at
the top of the bag B, and with an elastic cord or strap, D, or equivalent devico,
secured to the floor and to the lower end of the bag. Some convenient means
of adjusting the tension of this elastic attachment should be provided, and if it be
a cord or strap, it might be passed through a ring or staple in the floor and drawn
to the desired tension and tied. The attachment at the slotted end of the bag B
should be by a loop secured on each side of the slit so as to more or less close the
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page_text: If the elastic attachment be drawn quite tight, the return of the bag, when
buffeted, will be instantaneous, and its momentum will carry it past its normal
position, and toward the operator so that the combatant, between, striking and
dodging, can, not only display his agility, but may have his "fill" of vigorous,
healthy, and enjoyablo exercise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The combination with an exercising bag, of an elastic cord by means of which
the bag is suspended, and an elastic cord, one end of which is secured to the bag
while the opposite end is adapted to be secured to the floor, substantially as set
forth.
2. An exercising device consisting essentially of an inner rubber bag, an outer
bag or covering preferably made of canvas, and a suspending cord secured to the
outer bag, substantially as set forth.
8. The combination with a rubber bag provided with a tube by means of which
it can bo inflated, of an outer covering or bag preferably made of canvas, and a
suspending cord secured to the outer bag, substantially as set forth.
4. The combination with an inner elastic bag, and an outer bag or covering
preferably made of canvas, of an elastic cord for suspending the bag and an elastic
cord secured to the outer bag, and adapted to operate as set forth.
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