Improvements in the Handles of Cricket Bats and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Handles of Cricket Bats and the like.
I ERNEST MARTIN of 24 Park Street, Accrington, in the County of Lancaster,
Cricket Bat Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to Improvements in the Cane Handles of Cricket Bats,
Tennis, Racquets, Hockey Sticks and the like. The object being to construct
handles which are stronger and cheaper than heretofore being less expensive to
manufacture and less waste of the cane employed for making said handles and also
fewer numbers of cane are required.
According to this invention I employ a series of canes each of which is cut or
planed longitudinally so that it has six equal sides, and thereby the outer bark of
the cane is removed. One of the six sided canes is used as a centre piece and six
like pieces are arranged round the centre piece, so that the several sides correspond
and fit one with the other.
The whole of the seven pieces are glued or cemented together and afterwards
cut or turned round to the required shape and size and wrapped in the ordinary
manner.
The handles or spaces in or between the outer pieces of cane may be filled up
with cane or packing if desired.
The bark being removed from the canes, the several pieces are securely held
together by the glue or cement.
ERNEST MARTIN,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Handles of Cricket Bats and the like.
I, ERNEST MARTIN of 24 Park Street, Accrington in the County of Lancaster,
Cricket Bat Maker, 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 :-
This invention relates to Improvements in the Cane Handles of Cricket Bats,
Tennis Racquets, Hockey Sticks and the like, the object being to construct
handles which are stronger and cheaper than heretofore, being less expensive to
manufacture and there is also less waste of the cane employed for making said
handles, and also a smaller number of canes are required, and the invention
consists in the employment of a series of canes each of which is cut, rasped filed
or planed longitudinally so that it has six equal sides and thereby the outer bark of
each cane is removed, the several pieces of cane being then glued or cemented
together and wrapped as ordinary.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
in which.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of part of a cricket bat handle made in accordance with

page_text: this invention and shewing part of handle wrapped or bound with string as
ordinary.
Fig. 2 is a plan view on line A, B of Fig. 1.
According to this invention I employ a series of canes 1. 1 each of which is cut
rasped, filed or planed longitudinally so that it has six equal sides i.e. hexagon in
plan, and thereby the outer bark of each cane is removed.
One of the six sided canes 1* is used as a centre piece and six like pieces 1. 1 are
arranged round the centre piece 1ª so that the several sides correspond and fit one
with the other see Fig. 2.
The whole of the seven pieces are glued or cemented together and afterwards cut,
rasped filed or turned down to the required shape, and size, and wrapped in the
ordinary manner.
The angles or spaces in or between the outer pieces of cane 1. 1 may be filled up
with cane or other packing 2 if desired.
The bark being removed from the canes the several pieces are securely held
together by the glue or cement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of my
said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is :-
1. Handles for purposes and uses as aforesaid, constructed of a centre piece of
hexagonal cane surrounded by a series of canes as herein described and as
illustrated by annexed drawings.
Dated this 6th day of February 1894.
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Dated this 6th day of February 1894.
ERNEST MARTIN,
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.