Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 5th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th June, 1887.
I, JAMES HEBBLEWAITE of the Ancoats Vale Rubber Co. Ld. Manchester
Secretary, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to pneumatic inflating apparatus and have for object the
convenient inflation with air of such like articles as india-rubber and other footballs,
air balloons, and air cushions.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I construct, of india rubber or
other flexible material, a conveniently shaped ball, made hollow; or a hollow
spheroidal form, which may be elongated, by preference, to the oviform; and which
has at any convenient point a hole or opening for the admission of air. To this
hollow vessel is attached a nozzle composed of brass or other metal or it may be of
wood, glass, porcelain, vulcanite or even of india rubber, and fitted with a ball or
other valve to prevent the return of the air through the nozzle when once expelled
from the apparatus.
This nozzle is inserted into the neck or tube attached to or forming part of the
football or other article: and upon alternately compressing the hollow flexible ball or
other form with the hand, and allowing it to expand by filling with air through
the hole or other opening therein, the article requiring inflation is rapidly and
conveniently filled with air to such extent as is necessary.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.

page_text: I, JAMES HEBBLEWAITE, of the Ancoats Valo Rubber Co., Limited, Manchester,
Secretary, 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:-
The improvements relate to pneumatic inflating apparatus, and have for object the
convenient inflation with air of such like articles as India-rubber and other foot-balls,
air balloons, and air cushions.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I construct, of India-rubber or
other flexible material, a conveniently shaped ball, made hollow; or a hollow
spheroidal form, which may be elongated, by preference, to the oviform; and which..
has, at any convenient point, a hole or opening for the admission of air.
To this hollow vessel is attached a nozzle composed of brass or other metal, or it
may be of wood, glass, porcelain, vulcanite, or even of India-rubber, and fitted with a
ball or other valve to prevent the return of the air through the nozzle when once
expelled from the apparatus.
This nozzle is inserted into the neck or tube attached to, or forming part of the.
foot-ball or other article to be inflated; and upon alternately compressing the hollow
flexible ball or other form with the hand, and allowing it to expand by filling with
air through the hole or other opening therein, the article requiring inflation is rapidly
and conveniently filled with air to such extent as is necessary.
But that the improvements may be better understood I will by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, shews an elevation, and Fig. 2, a section of apparatus constructed in
accordance with my invention.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a, is the India-rubber or other flexible ball or vessel, which by preference and in
the example shewn is oviform; but a spherical, spheroidal, or other suitable form may
be employed. b, b, is the hole or opening in such ball or vessel; and c, c, is the
nozzle which may be composed of any suitable metal or other substance and fitted
with the ball valve as shewn or any equivalent valve which may be employed for the
same purpose.

page_text: In practice the nozzle or tube is inserted into the neck or entrance of the foot-ball
or other article to be inflated, when alternate pressure and release of the flexible ball
or vessel will effect the object in view.
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 :-
The employment of a flexible ball or vessel fitted or formed with a nozzle and ball
or other valve, for the purpose of producing or constructing an instrument for the
convenient inflation of foot-balls and other like objects in manner substantially as
herein shewn and described.
Dated thi 2-1 1
1007
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
Agent,