Improvements in Cricket Bats.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1:90
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1890--Accepted, 31st Jan., 1391
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cricket Bats.
I, CHARLES ROSE, Junior, 21 Dorset Street, Southampton, Cricket Bat Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The handle of the cricket bat, when fixed, is absolutely separated from the blade
by a layer of india rubber.
The blade is of the ordinary shape, but a deep tapering hole, or socket, is bored
into the top, and lined with india rubber, into which the handle is made to fit.
The handle is secured by a pin, or pins, passing through the middle at right
angles.
The pins are removable, and the handle and blade may be separated.
The blade is bored to a certain gauge to fit any
handle.
The handle is made to correspond, and to fit any blade, which may be done in a
few minutes.
The india rubber lining in the socket, or hole may be permanently cemented to
the blade or handle, or all may be cemented together.
The pins may be covered with india rubber.
The process of boring a tapering hole does not remove so much wood from the
blade, which is consequently stronger than a spliced blade.
The handle, being tapered to a point at the bottom, bends more freely, and being
bedded in india rubber is extremely elastic in the joint.
The hole in the blade may be bored or cut to any shape, with the handle to
fit, and being lined with india rubber, all jarring, or stinging, is shut off from the
blade.
Any suitable material may be used in the manufacture of this bat.
The bat is not increased in weight, or altered in shape.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cricket Bats.
CHARLES ROSE Junior of 21 Dorset Street in the Town and County of
Southamptom Cricket Bat Maker and Outfitter 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 :-
The object of my invention is to increase the driving power and durability of
cricket bats to render them incapable of jarring the hands and to produce a portable
bat the handle of which may be readily removed and replaced and be utilized for
any number of blades.
The handle of a bat made according to my invention when fixed is preferably
separated from the blade by elastic material such as india rubber which prevents
jarring.
The blade may be of the ordinary shape but a hole or socket (preferably round
and tapering) is formed in the top thereof to receive a corresponding projection on
the handle. The said projection is covered with yielding bedding or elastic
material or the hole in the blade is lined therewith or the projection and hole may
both be provided therewith, a suitable material is vulcanized india rubber which

page_text: may be strengthened by a layer of canvas or leather, or canvas or leather or the
like may be used alone in which case it will generally be made as a lining to the
socket to strengthen the surrounding parts.
The handle may be secured to the blade by any suitable means such for instance
as by screwing it therein or by a spring catch in the blade protruding into the hole
therein which catch is thrust back as the projection from the handle is inserted
and afterwards springs into a recess made for it in the projection. The spring
catch may be released for disengaging the handle by means of a press button or by
operating it as a latch bolt is operated but a simple plan is to secure the handle by
means of a pin or by means of pins passing through the blade and the projection
from the handle from side to side or from front to back or both. The pin or
pins may be in the form of a screw or screws provided with a head for turning
it or them for fixing and releasing.
This pin or these pins may be removeable so that the handle and blade may
be quickly separated. I prefer to bore the holes in the blades to one standard
gauge so that any handle will fit any blade.
The elastic lining to the hole in the blade or the elastic covering to the projection
on the handle or both may be cemented in place when the handle and blade may
be permanently secured together.
If the blade and handle be secured by a pin or by pins it or they may be
covered or partly covered by elastic material and it or they may be fixed in place
or be removeable.
The mode of connection by means of a tapering hole in the blade especially
when combined with a canvas or leather or like lining renders the bat stronger at
the shoulder than is a spliced bat and the handle cannot break out in the usual
way at the front and oil or dampness cannot affect the joint.
When bedded in elastic material such as rubber the handle is extremely elastic
in the joint.
The hole in the blade may be cut or bored of any shape the projection on
the handle being made to correspond but they are preferably made circular for
convenience of manufacture and for strength.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing represents the blade and Fig. 2 the handle
of a bat constructed according to this invention. Fig. 3 shews the securing
pin separately and Fig. 4 shews the handle and blade connected together. A is
the blade having in its upper end a tapering hole a and B is the handle having
on it a correspondingly tapered projection b. I have shewn the projection b
as being covered by the bedding yielding or elastic material c as aforesaid it
preferably consisting of a layer of thin canvas next the wood (the upper part
being secured under the lashing of the handle) and of a relatively thick layer
of india rubber outside the canvas. Transverse holes a² ² are made through the
blade and projection from the handle and through these (when they are in
line as in Fig. 4) is passed the securing pin d which and the holes may
be made somewhat tapering. The hole a in the blade is preferably lined with
thick canvas turned over the upper end of the blade as ate and lashed at that
part. It may have a thin layer of rubber outside the canvas.
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 :-
1. A cricket bat having a hole in the upper part of the blade and a projection
on the lower part of the handle engaging in the said hole with bedding yielding or
elastic material such as canvas or leather or rubber or both separating the blade
from the handle substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A cricket bat having a hole in the upper part of the blade and a projection
on the lower part of the handle engaging in the said hole the blade and handle
being secured together substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 3. A cricket bat constructed as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.