Improvements in or relating to Batting Gloves employed in the Game of Cricket.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 14th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 14th May. 1592
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Batting Gloves employed in the
Game of Cricket.
I, JOHN VICKERS of 6 Union Street, Bolton in the County of Lancaster,
Athletic Goods Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to
be as follows :—
This invention refers to improvements in or relating to batting gloves, employed
in the game of cricket, and has for its object that of constructing them in such a
manner as to increase their efficiency, reduce weight to a minimum, increase
gripping power, and to make them more durable and less liable to damage than
hitherto. This I effect by constructing the back side of the glove fingers with
strips of felt, woollen, cotton, or other suitable substance or material of sufficient
thickness, the same being secured thereto by cement, stitching, or other suitable
means. The felt, woollen, cotton, or other suitable substance or material at the
part behind the glove fingers can be in one or more strips of any suitable or
convenient section.
Dated the 16th Jul 1901
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Batting Gloves employed in the
Game of Cricket.
I, JOHN VICKERS of 6 Union Street, Bolton in the County of Lancaster,
Athletic Goods Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 refers to improvements in or relating to batting gloves employed
in the game of cricket, and has for its object that of constructing them in such a
manner as to increase their efficiency, reduce weight to a minimum, increase gripping
power, and to make them more durable and less liable to damage than hitherto.
This I effect by constructing the back side of the glove fingers with strips of felt,
woollen, cotton, or other suitable substance or material of sufficient thickness,
secured thereto by cement, stitching, or other suitable ineans.
Fig. is a back view of a right-hand batting glove with my improvement
applied,
Fig. 2 is a back view of same in position on right hand,
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation through line A B in Fig. 1,
Fig. 4 is a back view of a left-hand glove with my improvement applied,
Fig. 5 is a back view of same in position on left hand,
Figs. 6 and 7 are views of Figs. 1 and 4 showing another method of securing the
protective material or strips, and
Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation through line C D in Fig. 7.
E is the body part of the glove; G the fingers, and H the thumb. Behind the
fingers G and thumb H I fix or attach to the body E the strips J, which may be of
either felt, woollen, cotton, or other suitable substance or material of a light durable
nature. The strips J may be of any desired thickness, and are secured in
position by means of cement or stitching, or, by means of cement, or stitching
and the leather or like clips K; the latter being secured to the body E by cement
or stitching.

page_text: I would have it understood that I am aware that batting gloves, wicket-keeping
gauntlets, foot-ball gloves, and fives gloves have been constructed or provided with
a thin layer of felt and sheet india-rubber on the inner or handling side of the gloves
to facilitate gripping power, but my improved gloves are made of ordinary material
on the inner or handling side so as to cause no obstruction when gripping the bat
handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In combination with batting gloves employed in the game of cricket the use
of the strips J composed of either felt, woollen, cotton, and the like, and placed
behind the fingers and thumb, being secured by cement or stitching, or, by cement
or stitching and the clips K, substantially as described.
12000
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.