An Improvement in Cricket Bats.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cricket Bats.
I, RICHARD ASHTON, of 6 Denison Road, Hanover Square, Leeds, in the County of
York, Cricket Bat Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention bas reference to an improvement in the method of joining the handle
of a cricket bat to the body thereof more effectually than has heretofore been done by
what is known as a "single splice" which is liable to fail through insufficiency of
surface contact between the respective parts.
The object of my present invention is by forming the handle with a duplicate splice
or scarf, or in other words a "two grained fork," for insertion into the bat and thus
to provide betwixt the said parts about double the amount of surface contact than has
heretofore obtained by means of the single splice above referred to, so that the amount
of adhesion between the said parts will be proportionally increased.
Dated this 16th day of October 1890.
RICHARD ASHTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cricket Bats.
I, RICHARD ASHTON, of 6, Denison Road, Hanover Square, Leeds, in the County of
York, Cricket Bat Maker, 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 :-
This invention has reference to an improvement in the method of joining the handle
of a cricket bat to the body thereof in a more effectual and superior manner than has
heretofore been done by what is known as a "single splice," which is liable to fail
through the small amount of surface contact available between the respective parts in
such construction.
The object of my present invention is, by formning the handle with a duplicate splice
or scarf, or in other words a two grained fork formed in the built up canework of the
handle for insertion into the body part of the bat, thus to provide betwixt the said
canework fork and body of the bat about double the amount of surface contact than
has heretofore obtained by the use of the single splice above referred to, so that the
amount of adhesion between the respective parts (when properly glued or otherwise
cemented together) will be proportionally increased.
In the annexed drawings Fig. 1. is a front view, and Fig. 2, a side or edge view of
an improved cricket bat according to my invention,-a, is the body of the bat, b, the
cane handle built up in the usual manner, the lower part of which, for insertion into
the said body being formed into a double splice or fork as shewn at cc, the body a,
being suitably prepared for its reception.
Fig. 3, is a cross section at the line 1, 1, of Figs. 1, and 2, shewing, as well as in
Fig. 1. four contact surfaces d, d, d, d, in place of only two as obtains in bats with
the single splice as heretofore constructed.
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
In an improved cricket bat as hereinabove referred to, the insertion of the handle
into the body thereof with a duplicate or fork-like splice for producing an increased

page_text: surface contact between the respective parts substantially as described and shewn in
the drawings annexed.
Dated this 27th day of November 1890
Witness--
THOS. E. CRAVEN, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
24, Victoria Chambers, Leeds.
RICHARD ASHTON.