IMPROVED APPARATUS OR APPLIANCE FOR LAWN-TENNIS POLES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Haskell, of No. 411, Oxford Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS OR
APPLIANCE FOR LAWN-TENNIS POLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Haskell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th November 1881.
EDWARD HASKELL, of No. 411, Oxford St., in the County of Middlesex, Engineer,
"IMPROVED APPARATUS OR APPLIANCE FOR LAWN TENNIS POLES."
The Invention consists of a contrivance for straining and fixing lawn tennis nets.
The object of the Invention is to give additional strain to the straining and fixing
secure the lawn tennis net, and consists of either a single tube (as Figure 2), or two.
half round shaped pieces of wrot iron, wood, or any other material (as Figure No. 1)
rivetted together three inches apart, and fixed to a plate at the base with a wide
thread to screw into the ground, and supported by two stays at an angle of forty-
five degrees to the perpendicular support; these stays are fixed to the ground by
means of a plate with spikes attached on the underside; and at the top of the
support is a pulley wheel for the cord to pass over on to a winder situated between
the two half diameter uprights of the No. 1 pole and between a slot of the No. 2
pole, and wound up by means of a ratchet winder with a proper catch and set pin
to prevent the ratchet going in opposite direction, the cord first passing through
the eyelet hole of a rod attached to the support to fasten the net.
Having now described the nature of this Invention and how it is to be per-
formed, I therefore claim the following:-First. I claim the screw at the base to
screw or fix into the ground.
Second. I claim the construction of the ratchet for tightening the cord of the net
after passing over the pulley wheel.
Third. I claim the two stays placed at an angle of forty five degrees to act as
support to the poles.
No. A is the screw fixed to the plate to screw into the ground. B is the section
of one of the two supports of No. 1. C is the stay. D is the pulley wheel which
the cord passes over.
E is the ratchet which winds the cord. F is the rod attached to the perpendicular
support to fasten the net to. G is the net.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Haskell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th May
1882.
EDWARD HASKELL, Engineer, of 28, South Audley St., Grosvenor Square,
London, W., late of 411, Oxford St., London, W. "IMPROVED APPARATUS OR
APPLIANCE FOR LAWN TENNIS POLES."
This Invention consists of a contrivance for straining and fixing lawn
tennis nets.
The object of this Invention is to give additional strain to the straining and
fixing secure the lawn tennis net, and consists of either a single tube (as Fig.
No. 2), or two half round shaped pieces of wrot iron, wood, or any other material
(as Fig. No. 1) rivetted together 3 apart, and fixed to a plate at the base with a
wide thread to screw into the ground, and supported by two stays at an angle of
45% to the perpendicular support; these stays are fixed to the ground by means
of a plate with spikes, or as shewn in (Fig. No. 3); and at the top of the support
is a pulley wheel for the cord to pass over on to a winder situated between the two
half diameter uprights of the No. 1 and between a slot of the No. 2 pole, and wound
up by means of a ratchet winder with a proper catch and set pin to prevent the
ratchet going in an opposite direction, the cord first passing through the eylet hole
of a rod attached to the support to fasten the net.
Having now described the nature of this Invention and how it is to be per-
formed, I therefore claim the following:
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First. I claim the construction of the ratchet for tightening the cord of the net
after passing over the pulley wheel.
Secondly. I claim the principle of fixing, as shewn in Figures No. 1, 2, 3,
"and 4.
A is the screw fixed to the plate to screw into the ground.
B is the iron socket driven into the ground to hold the pole, supported by
four short stays..
C is the angle stay.
E is the ratchet by which means the cord is strained.
F is the rod attached to the perpendicular support to fasten the
net to.
G is the net.
F is the rod attached to the perpendicular support to lasten
net to.
G is the net.
H is a cast iron socket to hold the pole for asphalte courts.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Haskell, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty two.
EDWARD HASKELL.
(L.)