Improvements in Cricket Bats.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1895-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1996
ARTHUR EDWIN TRIMMINGS Bat Maker, of Carnarvon Villas, Gedling in
the County of Nottinghamshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention consists in the improvement in cricket bats, hereinafter set
forth.
Cricket bats are usually made in two parts viz. :-the handle and blade, the
handle consisting of a number of pieces of cane or other equivalent yield material
which is glued or cemented together and then fitted into the wood forming the blade
of the bat and fastened by glue or cement.
The handle is then turned in a lathe
or otherwise converted into a round or true surface and the blade then shaped, this
constituting a finished bat.
My invention consists in further securing an ordinary or any handle to the blade
or wooden portion of any cricket bat and also considerably strengthening the blade
and rendering the entire bat inseparable.
I provide the usual or any suitable built up bat and then proceed to cut a groove
round the entire outer edge of the same commencing at the top of the handle down
one side round the shoulder down the edge of the blade round the bottom continuing
up the other edge to the top of the handle.
I next provide a length or piece of cane, whalebone, leather or any pliable
suitable material which may be steamed or otherwise softened, such material is then
very tightly strained round the edge of the bat and secured by glue, cement or any
convenient method of fastening and so amalgamating with the bat and forming a
tyre to the same.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cricket Bats.
ARTHUR EDWIN TRIMMINGS Bat Maker of Carnarvon Villas, Gedling in the
County of Nottinghamshire 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:-
My invention consists in the improvement of cricket bats as hereinafter set
forth
Cricket bats are usually made in two parts namely the handle and blade, the
bandle consisting of a number of pieces of cane or other equivalent yield material
glued or cemented together.
It is then spliced into the blade or wooden portion and they are fastened together
by glue or cement. The handle is then turned in a lathe or otherwise converted
into a round or true surface and the blade or wooden portion then shaped, this
constitutes a finished bat.

page_text: My invention consists in further securing an ordinary or any handle to the bla le
or wooden portion of any cricket bat and also considerably strengthening the blade
and handle and rendering the same inseparable.
Figure 1. represents a side view of bat with groove cut therein.
Figure 2 represents face view of bat, and tyre or band ready to be inserted in
groove or fastened round the outer edge.
Figure 3 represents a sectional view of handle shewing grooves to receive the
tyre or band and strips of hard fibre.
Figure 4. represents a sectional view of handle shewing the tyre or band, and
hard fibre inserted in grooves.
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In carrying out my invention I provide the usual or any ordinary
bat then proceed to cut a groove round the outer-edge of the same commencing at
the top of the handle down one side round the shoulder down the edge of the blade,
round the bottom continuing up the other edge to the top of the handle in the
manner represented at "A in Figure 1.
I next provide a length or strip of cane, whalebone, leather, hard fibre, or any
suitable pliable material in the manner represented at "B" in Figure 2 which may
be steamed or otherwise softened, such material is then very tightly strained in the
groove or round the outer edge of the bat and secured by glue, cement, or any
convenient method of fastening and so amalgamating with and forming a tyre to
the bat.
The sectional plan Figure 3 represents top view of handle with grooves cut
therein to receive tyre or band as represented at "A" in Figure 3 and also
grooves to receive hard fibre on face and back of handle, as represented at "0"
in Figure 3.
I also strengthen the handle by glueing or cementing two lengths or strips of
hard fibre, inserted in a groove one on the face and one on the back, in the manner
represented at "E" in Figures 2 and 4, the grooves commencing at the top of
handle and continuing to the bottom of the splice.
The sectional plan Figure 4 shews the top view of handle with band or tyre
inserted as represented at "D" in Figure 4 and also strips of hard fibre inserted
in handle as represented at " E' in Figure 4.
I also claim this hard fibre, and tyre or band as a support to both handle and
blade of any cricket bat.
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 :-
1. The strengthening of the cricket bat by inserting or tightly straining a tyre
of cane, whalebone, hard fibre, or any suitable pliable material by glueing,
cementing or fastening by any suitable method in a groove or round the outer
edge of any cricket bat.
2. The strengthening of the handle by glueing or cementing two lengths or
strips of hard fibre, inserted in a grove one on the face and one on the back, the
grooves commencing at the top of the handle and continuing to the bottom of the
splice.
Dated this Thirteenth day of June 1896.
A. E. TRIMMINGS.