Improvements in Handles for Skipping Ropes, Battledores, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, ZoIN NOV., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1898
Date of Application, 2010 NOV., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handles for Skipping Ropes, Battledores, and
the like.
I, JAMES HENRY MADEN, Director of J. H. Maden Limited, of Shudehill,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fancy Goods Dealers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in handles for skipping ropes,
battledores and the like, the object of which improvements is to add to the
attractiveness of the article and to enable the user to give audible expression by
the hand at each turn of the rope or each beat.
In carrying out my invention 1 fix to the handle so as to be within easy reach
of the finger or thumb a small sounding device, which may consist of a spring
castanet or its equivalent, a bell with a governable striker, or a small wind instru-
ment having attached to it an elastic indiarubber ball or bulb for forcing air
therethrough.
In cases where a castanet is to be used, I prefer on account of cheapness, to use
a piece of thin sheet metal or other suitable hard substance stamped with an
indentation and held at its sides or end in a grooved frame of metal fixed to the
ferrule end of the bandle.
When a bell is to be used a small gong is preferably fixed to the handle at a
convenient part, having a spring hammer or striker provided with a finger to
operate it by.
In cases where a wind instrument is to be used, a whistle or a reed is fixed to
the handle and provided with an expanded elastic ball or bulb which when
pressed forces air through the instrument.
Dated this Treanty fifth day of November 1) 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Handles for Skipping Ropes, Battledores, and
the like.
I, JAMES HENRY MADEN, Director of J. H. Maden Limited, of Shudehill,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fancy Goods Dealers, do hereby declare
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Improvements in Handles for Skipping Ropes, Battledores, and
the like.
I, JAMES HENRY MADEN, Director of J. H. Maden Limited, of Shudehill,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fancy Goods Dealers, do hereby declare
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page_text: 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:-
This invention has reference to improvements in handles for skipping ropes,
battledores and the like, the object of which improvements is to add to the
attractiveness of the article and to enable the user to give audible expression by
the hand at each turn of the rope or beat.
In carrying out my invention I fix to the handle so as to be within easy reach
of the finger or thumb a small sounding device, which may consist of a spring
castanet or its equivalent, a bell with a governable striker, or a small wind instru-
ment having attached to it an elastic indiarubber ball or bulb for forcing air
therethrough.
On the drawing appended hereunto
Figures 1 and 2 show a skipping rope handle with a castanet attached in side
view partly sectioned and in front view Figure a handle with a bell attached
and Figure 4 a handle with an indiarubber bulb and small wind instrument fixed
thereto.
In cases where a castanet is to be used. I prefer on account of cheapness, as
shewn on Figures 1 and 2, to use a piece of thin steel or other suitable hard
substance stamped with an indentation and held at its sides and end in a grooved
frame of metal fixed to the handle in a convenient position for pressing the free
end of the piece with the thumb.
A bell may be arranged as shewn by Figure 2. A bell is fixed to a stem con
a plate fattached to the handle and formed with a lug or lugs f' on which the
bell crank with hammer g is pivotted. A spring presses against the hell-
crank and causes the hammer to strike the bell when the other end of the bell-
crank is pressed against the handle and then released.
In cases where a wind instrument is to be used as shewn on Figure 4. a whistle
or a reed is fixed to the handle and provided with an expanded elastic ball or
bulb which when pressed forces air through the instrument.
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. The combination with the handles of skipping ropes, battledores and the
like of sound producing devices arranged so that they can be operated by the
pressure of the thumb or a finger of the person using said handles, substantially
as herein before described.
2. The combination with the handles of skipping ropes, battledores and the
like of castanets bells or wind instruments substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated th
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1000
R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Harrington Chambers, 24, North John Street, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.