Improvements in Handles for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, and other Bats.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, and
other Bats.
I, HENRY ADCOCK Cook, of 67 Barbican in the City of London, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to improvements in handles for cricket, lawn tennis
and other bats, and relates more particularly to handles made partly of india rubber
and partly of cane or other flexible material.
Hitherto these handles have been made with a central core of india rubber
surrounded by strips of cane or other flexible material.
Now I have found that these handles have a tendency to break especially if the
handles are made of small diameter.
The object of the present invention is to produce a handle which shall have the
same properties of flexibility and absence of vibration and that shall be less liable
to break.
In carrying my invention into effect I take a number of pieces of cane or other
flexible material and I place and cement two or more pieces of sheet rubber between
the said pieces of flexible material. These pieces of rubber preferably do not
extend the whole length of the handle, pieces of whalebone or other suitable
material of the same thickness and width as the strips of rubber are used to fill up
the spaces left behind the pieces of cane at each end of the handle and are cemented
in position between such parts.
The pieces of cane or other flexible material with the strips of.india rubber and
whalebone &c. between them and the other parts of the handle are glued or
cemented together in the usual manner.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, and
other Bats.
I, HENRY ADCOCK COOK, of 67-Barbican, in the City of London, Manufacturer,
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 present invention relates to improvements in handles for cricket, lawn tennis,
and other bats, and relates more particularly to handles made partly of india rubber
and partly of cane or other flexible material.
Hitherto these handles have been made with a central core of india-rubber
surrounded by strips of cane or other flexible material.
Now I have found that these handles have a tendency to break, especially if
they are made of small diameter.
The object of the present invention is to produce a handle which shall have the
same properties of flexibility and absence of vibration and that shall be less liable
to break.

page_text: My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a cricket bat handle drawn on the line 1-1 of
Fig. 2, and
Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.
In carrying my invention into effect I take a number of pieces a a of cane or
other flexible material, and I place and cement two or more pieces or strips b. b of
sheet rubber between the said pieces or strips a a of flexible material. These
pieces or strips b b of rubber are preferably arranged in planes passing lengthwise
through the width of the bat and preferably do not extend the whole length of the
handle. Pieces c c of whalebone or other suitable material, of the same thickness
and width as the strips of rubber bb, are used to fill up the spaces left between
the pieces a a of cane at each end of the handle and are cemented in position
between such parts. The pieces a a of cane or other flexible material, with the
strips b b, c c of india-rubber, whalebone, or other flexible material, between them,
and the other parts d d of the handle on each side of the parts a a, b b, c c, are
glued or cemented together in the usual manner.
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. A handle for cricket, lawn tennis, and other bats constructed substantially as
herein shown and described.
2. A handle for cricket, lawn tennis, and other bats, having the central part
formed of pieces a a of cane or other suitable flexible material, pieces 6b of sheet
rubber intermediate of the pieces a a and terminating at a short distance from
each end of the handle, and pieces c c of whalebone or other suitable material at
each end of the pieces bb and intermediate of the pieces a a, all being cemented
together, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 6th day of January 1894.
Dated this 5th day of
anuary 1894
H. A. COOK,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.