Improvements in Cricket Bats.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cricket Bats.
HENRY DANIEL BOOTH residing at 47 Durham Street Upper Kennington Lane
London S.E: Turner in wood do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to give increased driving power to Cricket Bats,
to regulate thier weight, and to dispense with oiling to keep them in order This is
obtained by plugging the face of the blade, with cane, cork, wood, rubber & the like
suitable material, partly or completely, the plugs may be plain and glued in, or made
with a screw & screwed in, with glue. I may also make a cavity in the blade and
glue pieces of suitable material in, or fill the cavity up with one whole, of pieces
previously glued together.
I may also groove the blade and glue strips of cane or cork or rubber in them.
This method of treating bats may be applied both to old & new bats, and to old
ones it imparts new virtue. Cane.cork, & rubber are preffered above other materials,
as best suitable, either together or separate. Bats treated as herein described may
be bound with string to further insure thier durability.
Datad this 11th day of July 1889
HENRY DANIEL BOOTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cricket Bats.
HENRY DANIEL BOOTH 47 Durham Street Upper Kennington Lane London S.E.
Turner in Wood, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularlydescribed andascertained in and bythe
following statement:-
The object of this invention is to give increased driving power to cricket bats, to
regulate thier weight, and dispense with oiling to keep them in order This is
obtained by plugging the face of the blade partly or completely, with cane, cork,
wood, rubber,and the like suitable materials. Cork would lighten whilst cane would
increase weight. The plugs may be plain and glued in, or made with a screw and
screwed in with glue or material of a like tenacity. See Figs. 1 & 2.
I may also make a cavity in the blade and glue pieces of suitable material in, or
fill the cavity up with one whole of pieces previously glued together. See Fig 4.
I may also groove the blade and glue strips of cane, cork, wood, rubber, and the
like suitable materials into them. Fig. 3.
In either case the material used if having a grain, may be used anyway of the
same, and be made any shape & size, and used conjointly or separate. The
methods of treating bats as herein described may be applied conjointly (that is all
three methods on one bat if desireable) or separate, to old bats, new bats, and
bats in process of manufacture, and may be applied to the whole. or any part of the
blade. but is prefered upon that portion which recieves the ball, preventing thereby
undue weakening of the same, and may be bound with string to further insure
durability.
The lower portion of the blade being plugged as Fig.1,a full description of which
is given above, and making a cavity in the middle portion of the blade and fillingthe
same in with one whole of peices glued together as Fig. 4, fully described in
describing the said figure, and grooving the top portion and filling in the same by
glueing strips of material suitable as Fig.3.see the full description given of the said
figure. This is an example of using the three methods conjointly together, that is

page_text: associating the said methods to one blade, the order of using the methods is also
intended as an example, as either may be used in the top portion, middle portion,
and lower portion of blade.
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 what I claim is:-
1. Obtaining increased drivingpower in cricket bats byplugging the blades of the
same partly or completely, with cane, cork, wood, rubber, and the like suitable
materials, applicable to old bats, new bats and bats in process of manufacture.
2. Making a cavity in the blade and filling the same in with suitable material and
using the same conjointly with methods 1 and 3, or separate from the same.
3. Grooving the blade and glueing pieces of cane, cork, wood, rubber, and the.like
suitable materials into thesame, and using this also conjointly with methods 1 and 2,
or separate from the same.
4. Means of regulating the weight of bats.
HENRY DANIEL BOOTH.