Improvements in or relating to Bâtons and Staves, Walking-sticks and Whips, the Handles of Cricket-bats, Tennis-racquets, and such like articles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Bâtons and Staves, Walking-sticks
and Whips, the Handles of Cricket-bats, Tennis-racquets, and
such like articles.
I, CHARLES SIMS of 22 Temple Row Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Dentist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
As applied to batons or staves this invention consists in making them of leather
by sewing and glueing together any desirable number of layers or strips of leather.
The bâton or staff is then subjected to hydraulic or other pressure with the result
that the layers or strips of leather are firmly compressed together and solidity and
strength and at the same time great flexibility is obtained.
The bâton is then planed or turned down to the required dimensions in a lathe in
the usual manner.
In order to obtain greater rigidity I may use a metal rod this rod may be of any
convenient diameter and is passed up the centre of the leather bâton or staff then
layers or strips of leather being glued and sewn round it.
The handle of the bâton may have channels or corrugations cut thereon in order
to obtain a firm grip of the article and a wrist strap may be attached as ordinarily
used.
In order to render the bâton of greater endurance against weather influences the
surface of the leather may be coated with enamel or paint of any suitable description
which will make the article absolutely impervious to wet &c.
The same process of manufacture may be followed in adapting my improvements
to walking-sticks and whips & the handles of cricket bats, tennis racquets and
the like.
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10th day of April A.D. 1890.
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Bâtons and Staves, Walking-sticks
and Whips, the Handles of Cricket-bats, Tennis-racquets, and
such like articles.
I, CHARLES SIMS of 22 Temple Row Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Dentist 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, that is to say :-
In the following Specification I have described my invention as applied to bâtons
staves or truncheons, as that is the main object of my invention, though the
particular method employed in their manufacture may equally apply to articles
wherein rigidity & flexibility are essentials-such as walking-sticks and whips the
handles of cricket bats, tennis racquets baseball sticks and such like.
Referring to the bâtons staves or truncheons this invention consists in making
them of leather (as being a tough yet flexible material) by sewing and glueing or
otherwise suitably attaching together any desirable number of strips or layers of
leather.
This having been done the bâton or staff is subjected to heavy compression such
as hydraulic or other suitable pressure with the result that the strips or layers of
leather, are solidly compressed together whereby strength and at the same time
great flexibility is obtained.

page_text: The bâton or staff is then planed down or turned in a lathe to the required size
as in the usual manner.
If preferred in order to obtain greater rigidity I may pass a metal rod or core of
any convenient diameter up the centre of the leather bâton or staff the strips or
layers of leather being glued and sewn around it.
Or the bâton or staff may be composed of one piece of leather.
The handle or hand part of the bâton or staff will have channels or other
corrugations cut thereon in order to obtain a firm grip of the same, the usual wrist
strap will also be attached thereto.
In order to render the bâton of still greater endurance against weather influences
the surface of the leather may be coated with enamel or paint of any suitable
description which will make the article absolutely impervious to wet &c.
As stated the same treatment & process of manufacture will equally apply to the
other articles and similar ones named.
I do not confine myself to the precise nature of the details herein set forth as I
may somewhat vary the same as occasion may demand without departing from the
general method of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
Firstly. In the manufacture of bâtons, staves, or truncheons, making them of
leather by the method of sewing, glueing, or suitably attaching together any desired
number of strips or layers of leather and compressing or amalgamating such strips
or layers of leather (or one solid piece alone may be treated) thereby producing an
article possessing great solidity strength and endurance together with flexibility for
the purpose and in manner as herein set forth.
Secondly. I claim the method of passing a rod or core of metal or suitable
material up the centre of the bâton, staff or truncheon and then surrounding the
same with layers of leather sewn and glued or otherwise as described.
Thirdly, claim the method of sewing glueing or suitably attaching together
any desired number of strips or layers of leather as may be required in the process
of manufacture of whips of all kinds walking sticks the handles of cricket bats,
tennis racquets, baseball sticks and articles of a like description as herein set
forth.
Lastly. I claim making the above named articles and the like of leather in the
manner herein named or any mere equivalent thereof for the purposes herein set
forth and specified.
Dated this 10th day of January A D 1801
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.