Improvements in Tennis and Racket Bats.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left 6th Feb. 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tennis and Racket Bats.
I, JAMES ALBERT BAKER, 98 Gosset Street, Bethnal Green Road E. London,
Toy Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
follows:-
as
My invention consists in the use of jingles in connection with toy or other tennis
rackets or bats. These I mount either above; beneath, or on both sides of the
string or gut netting. The jingles are formed of brass tin or any other sonorous
metal, and are secured within slots formed in the hoop by means of pins.
Dated November 10th 1892.
FRANCIS M. ROGERS,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tennis and Racket Bats.
I, JAMES ALBERT BAKER 98 Gosset Street Bethnal Green Road, E. London
Toy Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention consists in the use of jingles in connection with toy or other tennis
rackets or bats. These I mount either above, beneath or on both sides of the
string or gut netting. The jingles are formed of brass, tin, or any other sonorous
metal, and are secured within slots formed in the hoop by means of pins.
To enable my invention to be more clearly understood I will now describe the
same by means of the accompanying drawings in which :-
:-
Fig. 1. is a front view of a tennis racket or bat shewing jingles mounted beneath
the mesh or netting.
Fig. 2. shews the jingles mounted above the netting.
Fig. 3. shews part of a bat or racket having jingles mounted in pairs on both
sides the netting, one over the other.
Fig. 4. shews part of a bat or racket having jingles mounted alternately on both
sides the netting.
In the drawings 1 is the hoop of the racket or bat; 2, the gut, string or other
netting which is laced through the sides of the hoop in the well known manner,
3 are slots fashioned in the wood or other material from which the hoop is made,
4 are the jingles which are stamped out of tin, brass or other sonorous metal or
compound of the same; these are placed in pairs as shewn within each slot and
secured in position by a pin 5, passing loosely through them and driven into the
material of the hoop. When the handle 6 of the racket or bat is grasped as in the
act of striking a ball or the like, the shock imparted to the netting, mesh or
equivalent by the wholly or partially arrested motion, causes the jingles to clash
together and emit a musical sound. I do not confine myself to the number or
position of the pairs of jingles shewn in the figures as they may be increased or
decreased or ranged round the hoop in any desired manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be formed; I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In tennis rackets or bats the combination and use of jingles mounted in

page_text: the hoop, above, beneath or on both sides of the net in the way and manner
shewn.
2. In a tennis racket or bat the particular manner of mounting the jingles 4, in
slots 3, formed in the hoop and securing them by means of pins 5, loosely passing
through them, and driven into the material of the hoop.
Dated February 6th 1893.
FRANCIS M. ROGERS,
Agent.