Improvements in or connected with Cricket Bats.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Cricket Bats.
I, EDWARD WHITEHOUSE trading as E. Whitehouse & Co. of High Street, Melton
Mowbray Leicestershire, Gun-maker and Sporting Tackle Dealer do hereby declaro
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the novel application of a material to be employed for
protecting the blades of cricket bats, from injury and also with the object of
lessening their tendency to become split, splintered, or crushed by the concussion
of the ball coming into contact therewith."
By means of my improvements the ordinary string protective bindings usually
employed are entirely dispensed with.
In carrying my Invention into practice the improved shield which I employ
consists of a tube, sheath, or band of india rubber or similar flexible material,
which when required for use is expanded or widened and forced over so as to
embrace the blade of the bat, whereupon owing to the elasticity of the material of
which such shield or sheath is composed, it maintains itself in the required position
necessary for it to assume.
The improved shield or sheath in accordance with my Invention above described
may be of a size sufficient to protect the entire blade, or made up in sections to
cover individual portions thereof to suit the varying requirements.
Doted this 97th day of July 1889
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Cricket Bats.
1, EDWARD WHITEHOUSE trading as E. Whitehouse & Co of High Street, Melton
Mowbray, Leicestershire, Gun-maker and Sporting tackle Dealer, 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 the novel application of a material to be employed for
protecting the blades of cricket bats from injury and also with the object of lessening
their tendency to become split, splintered, or crushed by the concussion of the ball
coming into contact therewith.
By means of my improvements the ordinary string protective bindings usually
employed are entirely dispensed with.
In carrying my Invention into practice the improved shield which I employ consists
of a tube, sheath, or band of india rubber or similar flexible material, which, when
required for use is expanded or widened and forced over so as to embrace the blade of
the bat, whereupon, owing to the elasticity of the material of which such shield or
sheath is composed, it maintains itself in the required position nece-sary for it to
assume.
The improved shield or sheath in accordance with my Invention above described
may be of a size sufficient to protect the entire blade, or made up in sections to cover
individual portions thereof to suit the varying requirements; and, if preferred, said
shield may be formed externally with bevelled edges and have longitudmal corru-
gations formed circumferentially around the shield and extending throughout th
length thereof.

page_text: 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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In cricket bats the employment of a protective shield of india-rubber or like
material adapted to the blades thei eof substantially as and 'for the purpose"herein
specified.--.
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JAMES'STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
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