Improvements in Mallets or like Strikers for Use in Playing Games with Balls.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1395-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mallets or like Strikers for Use in Playing Games
with Balls.
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I, FREDERICK HENRY AYRES of 111 Aldersgate Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
These improvements have reference to mallets and like strikers for use in playing
games with balls.
The hafts or laudles of the improved mallets or ball strikers are slotted for a
distance from the head end and the slot is filled with indiarubber, guttapercha or
compounds thereof, so as to give greater elasticity or spring.
The head of the mallet is formed with its outer ends preferably of slighter
diameter for a short distance and slightly within each end a ring or band of metal
encircles the same.
These bands may be secured to the mallet head by screws or equivalent
fastenings.
These bands may be engraved or otherwise ornamented and they serve to
strengthen and prevent splitting of the parts as well as to give additional ornamental
effect.
I Over the ends of the mallet may be strained leather, hide or like protective
material which the metal bands may serve to secure in position aided if need be by
pins or other means of attachment and the whole may be formed to proper contour
and polished and ornamented to taste.
By these means I am cuabled to increase the durability, ornamental appearance,
and to facilitate accuracy of play with other advantages.
1 prefer to make the mallet heads and balls of lignum-vitæ, or boxwood.
Dated the 25th day of April 1894
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Mallets or like Strikers for Use in Playing Games
with Balls.
I FREDERICK HENRY AYRES of 111 Aldersgate Street, 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 :-
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These improvements have reference to mallets and like strikers fan use in alanine

page_text: Fig. 2 shews an underside view of the head of the mallet or striker.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion of the mallet head showing the
end of the haft or handle secured therein.
The haft or handle a of the improved mallets or ball strikers is slotted at 6 for
a distance from the head end c and the slots are filled with indiarubber, gutta-
percha or compounds thereof, so as to give greater elasticity or spring.
This strip of indiarubber or other substance is held firmly between the two side
portions of the handle when the latter is secured into its place in the mallet heal
and the strip is further held in its place by means of a pin or rivet /'.
The haft or handle may be firmly secured to the head c by means of a wedge',
two smaller wedges being also inserted crosswise one at each side of the
wedge c¹.
The head of the mallet is formed with its outer ends preferably of slighter
diameter for a short distance and slightly within each end a ring or band d of metal
encircles the same.
These bands may be secured to the mallet head by screws e or equivalent
fastenings.
These bands may be engraved or otherwise ornamented and they serve to
strengthen and prevent splitting of the parts as well as to give additional ornamental
effect.
Over the ends of the mallet head c may be strained leather, hide or like protective
material which the metal bands d may serve to secure in position aided if need
be by pins or other means of attachment and the whole may be formed to proper
contour and polished and ornamented to taste.
By these means I am enabled to increase the durability, ornamental appearance
and to facilitate accuracy of play with other advantages.
I prefer to make the mallet heads and balls of lignum-vitæ, or boxwood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. The construction and arrangement or combination of the parts of mallets or
like strikers for use in playing games with balls as described and shewn by the
drawings.
2. The construction and arrangement or combination of parts of the handles of
mallets for use in playing croquet and like games as and for the purpose se: forth
and shewn by the drawings.
3. The construction and use of the heads of mallets and like strikers for balls in
playing croquet and other like games as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 18th day of January 1895.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant