Improvements in Appliances for Regulating the Height of Nets used for Games.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar.. 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Regulating the Height of Nets
used for Games.
We ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, Albion Crescent Scarborough Gentleman, and
FRED HOWARD WALKER, Hambleton House Moortown Leeds, Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A screw is fastened on to a holdfast secured in the ground, to which is attached
aband, piece of webbing, cord, strap, network, or other material, which, being
passed over the net, can be regulated to any required height, by means of two nuts
on such screw, which, when screwed together lock the adjuster to the required
height. Such screw (1) is fixed permanently on the holdfast, & the regulation of
the adjuster is effected by moving the nuts up or down; or (2) the screw descends
into a tube fixed to, & descending from, the holdfast into the soil, the regulation
Beneath
being accomplished by turning a milled head on the top of the screw.
the milled head & under the band or other material is a second nut which on being
tightened by turning, locks the screw at any desired height. The band is either
fastened under this milled head (2), or upper nut in (1), or to a stirrup of metal
attached to, & standing above, the milled head in (2) on that part of the screw
where, in the absence of such stirrup the band would be placed i.e. between the
milled head & lower nut.
Dated this 14th day of June 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Regulating the Height of Nets
used for Games.
We ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, Albion Crescent, Scarborough, Gentleman, &
FRED HOWARD WALKER, Hambleton House, Moortown, Leeds, Electrical
Engineer 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 screw A is fastened on to a holdfast. B secured in the ground to which is
attached a band, piece of webbing, cord, strap, network, or other material, which,
being passed over the net can be regulated to any required height by means of two
nuts C, C on such screw, A which when screwed together lock the adjuster to the
required height. Such screw A (1) is fixed permanently on the holdfast & the
regulation of the adjuster is effected by moving the nuts C, C up or down; or
(2) the screw A descends into a tube B fixed to, & descending from the holdfast C
into the soil, the regulation being accomplished by turning a milled head D on the
top of the screw A. Beneath the milled head & under the band or other material
is a second nut E which on being tightened by turning, locks the screw A at any
desired height. The band is either fastened under this milled head D (2), or
upper nut C in (1), or to a stirrup F of metal attached to, & standing above, the
milled head in (2) on that part of the screw A where, in the absence of such
stirrup the band would be placed i.e. between the milled head D & lower nut E.

page_text: Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare what we
claim is :-
1. The use of two nuts, turning on a screw fastened to a holdfast, or prong,
inserted in the ground, the said nuts by being screwed together, are capable of
being locked at any desired height on the screw.
2. The use of a tube secured to a holdfast, or prong, & descending into the
gound, in which a screw with a milled head & locking nut can be lowered or raised
& set in any desired position.
Dated this 11th day of March 1893.
ROBERT CHARLES HOPE.
FRED HOWARD WALKER.