Appliances for Use in Practising Games, or as a Toy.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Appliances for Use in Practising Games, or as a Toy.
FREDERIC WILLIAM TEBBY 45 Green Lane Small Heath Birmingham
Manufacturer, WILLIAM ARTHUR TEBBY 45 Green Lane Small Heath
Birmingham Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
A bat to which is attached a weight or a number of weights by means of a
length, or lengths of connecting material.
The bat (before mentioned) may be of any size, design, or shape, such as a
cricket bat, tennis racquet, rounder bat, battledore &c., made of any suitable
material or combination of suitable materials, such as wood, metal, wire, paper,
wood and string, wood and cat-gut, wood and parchment, wood and vellum, wood &
paper, &c.
as
The weight or weights (before mentioned) may be of any size, design, or shape,
a ball, shuttlecock, animal &c., &c., made of any suitable material, or
combination of suitable materials, such as rubber, wood, leather, cloth, paper,
cork, feathers, straw, wood-wool, rubber and wood, leather and wood, leather
and paper, cloth and wood &c., &c.
Connecting material (before mentioned) may be of any length, or number of
lengths and thickness, and made of any suitable material or combination of suitable
materials, such as elastic, string, rubber, wire, cotton, wool, worsted, rope, cat-gut,
whip-cord, leather &c. &c.
One end to be secured to the weight or weights, the other end to be secured to
any part of the bat by any suitable means, such as a hole and knot, button, spring,
or any other contrivance, or mechanism.
The whole apparatus which may be of different sizes, designs or shapes,
may serve as an instrument in the practice of handling a cricket bat, tennis
racquet, rounder bat &c. &c., and as a toy for use in door or out.
Dated this 26th day of October 1893.
FREDERIC WILLIAM TEBBY.
WILLIAM ARTHUR TEBBY.
.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Appliances for Use in Practising Games, or as a Toy.
FREDERIC WILLIAM TEBBY, 29, Glovers Road, Small Heath, Birmingham,
WILLIAM ARTHUR TEBBY 29 Glovers Road Small Heath Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 :-
A bat to which is attached a weight or number of weights by means of a length
or lengths of connecting material.
The bat before mentioned may be of any size, design, or shape, such as a cricket
bat, tennis racquet, rounder bat, battledore &c.; made of any suitable material
or combination of suitable materials such as wood, metal, wire, paper, wood and
string, wood and cat-gut, wood and parchment, wood and vellum, wood and
paper, &c.

page_text: The weight or weights as before mentioned may be of any size, design or shape,
such as a ball, shuttlecock, or animal; and made of any suitable material or
combination of suitable materials such as rubber, wood, leather, cloth, paper,
cork &c.
The connecting material before mentioned may be of any length or thickness
and made of any suitable material, or combination of suitable materials such as
whip-cord string, wire elastic &c.; one end to be secured to the weight or weights,
the other end to any part of the bat by any suitable means.
The whole apparatus, which may be of different sizes designs or shapes, is for use
as an instrument in the practice of handling a cricket bat, tennis racquet, &c., or
to serve as a toy.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
The attaching a weight (as before described) to a bat (as before described)
by means of a connecting material (as before described) the weight (or weights)
when struck by the bat being able to travel only so far as the connecting material
will allow, is (or are) thus made captive to the bat.
Dated this 26th day of July 1801
FREDERIC WILLIAM TEBBY.
WILLIAM ARTHUR TEBBY.
OT