Pneumatic Shuttle Cock.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1898-Accepted, 16th Apr.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Pneumatic Shuttle Cock.
We, FREDERICK SEYMOUR MILTON, 33, Beresford Road, Liverpool, Pawnbroker's
Manager, and ALBERT EDWARD MILTON, 47, Whittier Street, Liverpool, Labourer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
An improvement in the ordinary toy shuttlecock.
Instead of wood or cork bottom, the patent applied for is an indiarubber or any
composition pneumatic. bottom with a top made of cork or any other substances for
the placing of the feathers.
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& Fahmi 1908
FREDERICK SEYMOUR MILTON.
ALBERT EDWARD MILTON.
We, FREDERICK SEYMOUR MILTON, of 33, Beresford Road, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Pawnbroker's Manager, and ALBERT EDWARD MILTON, of 47, Whittier
Street, Liverpool aforesaid, Labourer, 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 toy shuttlecocks of that kind which are stuck with
feathers, and struck by a battledore in play, and the invention has for its object to
improve such articles, and enable them to be driven up into the air to a much
greater height than the ordinary kind are, also to make them so that they shall be
practically noiseless when hit by the battledore.
Instead of making the shuttlecock with a wood or cork bottom as hitherto, we, by
our invention, provide an indiarubber or any composition pneumatic bottom, with a
top made of cork or any other substance for the placing of the feathers.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which :—
Figure 1 is a general view of our shuttlecock;
Figure 2 a detail sectional view of the same.
From these figures, it will be seen that we make the bottom of the shuttlecock or
that part which is struck by the battledore of an air cushion or pad A, with a wood
or cork top B into which the feathers C are placed. The air cushion A is by
preference made of rubber, and it has flanges a and b above and below the wood or
cork top B so as to keep it in place. The cushion A by preference contains air at

page_text: normal pressure, but if desired it may be inflated with air under pressure, in which
latter case an airtight joint between the top B and the rubber flanges a is necessary.
In thus describing our invention, we wish it to be understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the details described, as it is obvious that the air cushion A may
be made entirely of rubber without a wood or cork top B-and-with the feathers
placed direct in the rubber. Such an arrangement we should regard as an obvious
infringement of our patent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. The improvement in toy shuttlecocks, which consists in making the bottom of
the shuttlecock or that part which is struck by the battledore of, or providing it with,
an air cushion or pad, whereby such articles can be driven up into the air to a much
greater height than the ordinary kind, substantially as described.
2. A shuttlecock constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown in
Figures 1.and 2 of the accompanying.drawing.
WM. P. THOMPSON. & Co.,
Patent Agents, of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London.