IMPROVEMENTS IN CRICKET STUMPS OR WICKETS
Year: 1884

page_text: I HENRY GEORGE BOORN THOMPSON of Short Range, Whalley Range, With-
ington, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN CRICKET STUMPS OR WICKETS," to be as
follows:-
The invention is chiefly intended for the use of children but can be made in all
suitable sizes for adults and has for its object, to prevent the ground being damaged
by driving the wickets into the ground, and also to enable its being used in
rooms.
It consists of three wooden stumps or wickets either of a round flat or other
suitable shape, which are either connected together at the top by means of a bail
of wood, of round flat or any other suitable shape or they may be grooved at the
tops to admit of the ordinary bails being used.
Instead of the wickets being driven into the ground, the lower ends are firmly
secured to a block of wood or metal of any convenient size or shape. The meaus
or manner of such connection and whether fast or loose is immaterial.

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I, HENRY GEORGE BOORN-THOMPSON of 27 Ducie St Chorlton-on-Medlock,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CRICKET STUMPS OR WICKETS and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The invention is chiefly intended for the use of adults for practice and for
children's play and can be made in all suitable sizes and has for its object to prevent
the ground being damaged, & trouble in fixing separate stumps, by driving them
into the ground and also to enable its being used in rooms, on asphalt, ice, or hard
.ground.
And in order that my invention may be better understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference corré-
sponding letters indicating like parts in the various figures.
Figs 1 and 3 on the annexed drawing are front elevations and Figs 2 & 4 side
elevations of my improved cricket stumps or wickets.
In carrying out my invention I form three wooden or metal stumps or wickets a
either of a round, flat, or other suitable shape which are either connected together
at the top by means of a bail of wood b, see Figs 1 and 2, or by means of a metal
bar c, see Figs 3 & 4, of round flat or any other suitable shape, and they may be
grooved at the top as shown in Figs 1, 2, 3 and 4; to admit of the ordinary loose
bails being used in addition.
Instead of the stumps or wickets being driven into the ground, the lower ends
are firmly secured to a block of wood d see Figs 1 and 2 or metal stand e see Figs 3
& 4, preferably of the shape illustrated in the drawing or of any otlier suitable size
or shape.
The means or manner of such connection and whether fast or loose is immaterial.
Having now described and illustrated the nature of my said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I would have it to be understood
that I claim
The use and formation of cricket stumps, the lower ends of which are connected
to or fixed into a metal stand or wooden block, of suitable shape being fastened
together at the top by means of a wooden or metal bail or bar and provided with
a groove for the reception of the ordinary loose bail for the purpose specified
substantially as described and illustrated in the annexed drawing.
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