Improvements in Light Fencing-standards, Goal-posts, and Pillars for Supporting Stop-nets used for Lawn Tennis and other Games.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left. 31st Oct., 1890-Accepted, 13th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Light Fencing-standards, Goal-posts, and Pillars
for Supporting Stop-nets used for Lawn Tennis and other
Games.
We, ARTHUR WILFRED BREWTNALL & HERMANN WILLIAM BREWTNALL, Wire
& Iron Workers of 4, Cateaton Street, Manchester do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
By this invention we secure a light strong pillar with a foot or ground plate for
steadying same & for convenience in driving it into the ground. We use a single
piece of crescent, cruciform, double TV or other suitable section of iron or steel
with a foot-plate secured to it at a desired distance from the pointed foot end thus
avoiding the trouble & expense of a separate ground piece attached to the upper part
of pillar. The foot-plate consists of a cast stamped or wrought plate or plates which
slide on to or are placed against the pillar & secured to it by rivets or other suitable
mcans. In some cases we make an addition to the foot-plate above-mentioned in the
form of two small sockets or arms to support the rods used for the bottom of lawn-
tennis stop-nets.
For carrying the top rods used with stop-nets or the band or bar for goal posts in
hockey & other games we fix to the top of pillar a shaped head-piece cast or forged
with upright pin & collar or slot or we forge the top of the pillar itself into a suitable
form.
Dated this First day of February 1890
ARTHUR WILFRED
BREWTNALL.
HERMANN WILLIAM BREWTNALL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Light Fencing-standards, Goal-posts, and Pillars
for Supporting Stop-nets used for Lawn Tennis and other
Games.
We, ARTHUR WILFRED BREWTNALL & HERMANN WILLIAM BREWTNALL, both
of 4, Cateaton Street, Manchester Wire & Iron Workers 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 :-
By this invention we provide an improved method for the manufacture of light
fencing or lawn-tennis stop-net standards having the upright portion all in one
piece & the foot-plate or ground-plate formed in such a way as to be easily & securely
fastened thereto at any desired point. Fig. 1 in the annexed drawings shows tho
method applied to a standard of crescent section, the foot-plate being shown separately
in plan in Fig. 1 & in elevation in Fig. 1. The foot-plate has a crescent-shaped
hole in it through which the standard passes easily & the lugs at top & bottom are
drilled for rivets the standard also being drilled to receive the rivets as shown.
Fig. 2 shows a similar form of foot-plate applied to a standard of H section. Fig. 3
is the same thing applied to a standard of cruciform section & it can also be similarly
applied to a standard of T section. The tops of the standards are finished with a
forged or cast stud or pin with a lug at lower end, formed to suit either section &
drilled & rivetted as shown. This pin is shown separately at 1*. When the standards
are required to have a band or strap passed through them as in goal posts the top
has a slot in it as shown in Figs. 2 & 2× or the material of the standard may be
Blattened out & slotted as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 4 shows a foot-plate made in two
portions to give a wider base the lugs on the two halves being suitably shaped to fit
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page_text: the opposite sides of standard whatever section is used & the rivets go through both
these & the standard holding all securely together. The pin or stud shown at the top
of standard in Figs. 1 & 4 is suited to receive a top rod with holes at ends such as is
used for tennis stop-net apparatus.
Having now described & fully set forth the nature of our said invention what we
claim is
1. The forming of a standard of a continuous piece of iron or steel of crescent,
cruciform, Tor H section pointed at the lower end to go into the ground & having
a foot-plate with a hole in it for standard to pass through said foot-plate being
furnished with lugs so that it & the standard may be securely fastened together by
rivets or screws, the standard also having its top end furnished with a pin or slotte!
portion for receiving top-rods or bands substantially as herein described & for the
purposes set forth.
2. The forming of a standard of a continuous piece of iron or steel of crescent,
cruciform, Tor H section having a foot-plate made in two portions each having
suitable lugs by which they are rivetted to the standard substantially as described &
for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof we hereunto sat one handle this 20th day of October 1890
o cat our hand; this 30th day of October 1890.
ARTHUR WILFRED BREWTNALL.
HERMANN WILLIAM BREWTNALL.