Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1887
Complete Left, 1st Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 20th Apr., 1888
I, JOHN OSMOND of Clifton Blackheath Park in the County of Kent Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to fixings for stop nets such are used to prevent escape of
lawn tennis balls, or for fence nets generally, the object which I have in view being
to place or remove such nets rapidly and easily, holding them by fixings of a light and
portable character. Into the ground at suitable intervals apart, which may be several
yards, I insert sockets which may remain there as fixtures, each socket being capable
of receiving the end of an upright pipe of the same height as the net. Along the
upper edge of the net I run a wire cord which I bend into loops at intervals corre-
sponding to those between the sockets or upright pipes. I pass the loop in each
case into and through a short piece of tube and secure it there by a knot or other wise,
and then I insert these pieces of tube containing the loops into the mouths of the
upright pipes wherein they are held as in sockets. When the wire cord is in separate
lengths, the ends of successive lengths thereof are passed into and through the short
tubes and fixed therein in a similar way. At an end of the net, I bring a cord from
the last of the small tubes down the side of the pipe threading it along the end of the
net and I fix this cord to the lower end of the pipe or to a picket driven into- the
ground.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant

page_text: Improvements in Fixings for Stop Nets or Fence Nets.
I, JOHN OSMOND of Clifton, Blackheath Park in the County of Kent, Engineer
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 relates to fixings for stop nots, such as are used to prevent escape of
lawn tennis balls, or for fence nets generally, the object which I havo in view being
to place or remove such nets rapidly and easily, holding them by fixings of a light and
portable character. Into the ground at suitable intervals apart, which may be several
yards, I insert sockets which may remain there as fixtures, each socket being capable
of receiving the end of an upright pipe of the same height as the net. Along the
upper edge of the net 1 run a wire cord which I bend into loops at intervals corre-
sponding to those between the sockets or upright pipes. I pass the loop in each
case into and through a short piece of tube and secure it there by a knot or otherwise,
and then I insert these pieces of tube containing the loops into the mouths of the
When the wire cord is in
upright pipes wherein they are held as in sockets.
separate lengths, the ends of successive lengths thereof are passed into and through
the short tubes and fixed therein in a similar way. At an end of the net, 1 bring a
cord from the last of the small tubes down the side of the pipe, threading it along the
end of the net, and I fix this cord to the lower end of the pipe or to a picket driven
into the ground.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing shews a part elevation of a stop not with
attachments according to my above described invention and Fig. 2 shews an enlarged
view of the attachment. A are tubular posts, open at the upper end and fitted with
the lower end into sockets B driven into the ground. C is a tubular piece, to which
the lengths of cord or wire D carrying the stop net are attached by passing the ends
down through the tube and tying them together into a knot outside the lower end as
shown, the tube C being then inserted into the post A.
A length of wire or cord at the end of the net passes down from the last tube C and
after being laced through the meshes of the net has its end attached either to a loose
ring shaped weight E at the bottom of the post A, or to a peg driven into the
ground.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is -
The use, for securing stop nets or fence nets of tubular pieces C to which the wire
or cord carrying the net is attached and which are inserted into the upper open ends
of tubular supports A, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 1st day of March 1888.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.