A New Mode of Constructing the Handles of Bats Used for Oricket and other analogous Games.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New Mode of Constructing the Handles of Bats Used for Oricket
and other analogous Games.
HERBERT GRADIDGE of 36 Artillery Place Woolwich
Woolwich Cricket Bat
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The nature and novelty of my invention consist in forming handles composed of
cane, cork, india rubber & wood so contrived and placed together as to give them
just that amount of spring required both for driving power and for solidity and
also so as to prevent any jar or sting to the hands when striking the ball.
I construct such handles by cutting an ordinary all cane cricket bat handle
longitudinally in four equal or nearly equal portions and in the cuts thus made
I insert the substances hereinafter specified, all with their flat surfaces facing the
front and back of handles.
In the central cut I insert a piece or strip of india rubber commencing at the
top and extending about two thirds the length of handles and below this, filling
the remaining third I place a strip of sycamore or other suitable wood, both these
substances extending the whole width of handles.
In the two outer cuts I insert in each a piece of sheet cork commencing at the
top and extending about half way down, and below that, in the remaining half
I place a strip of india rubber, both these substances also extend the whole width
of handles.
I now proceed to glue or otherwise fix all together work down to the required
size and shape and finish off in the usual manner.
Dated this Second day of December 1896.
A New Mode of Construoting the Handles of Bats Used for Orioket
and other analogous Games.
HERBERT GRADIDGE 36 Artillery Place Woolwich Cricket Bat 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 :-
The nature & novelty of my invention consists in forming handles composed of
cane cork india rubber and wood, so contrived and placed together as to give them
just that amount of spring required, both for driving power and for solidity and
also so as to prevent any jar or sting to the hands when striking the ball.
In order that the following statement may be more clearly understood I append
two drawings.
Figure 1 represents a side view of handle.

page_text: AA being strips of cork. B B & C C. boing strips of rubber D D being
sycamore and E EEE being cane.
Figure 2 shows a front view of handle when completed.
I construct such handles by cutting an ordinary all cane cricket bat handle
longitudinally into four equal or nearly equal portions (Fig. 1) and in the cuts
thus made I insert the substances hereinaften specified, all with their flat surfaces
facing the front and back of handles.
In the central cut I insert a piece or strip of india rubber (Fig. 1 B B)
commencing at the top and extending about two thirds the length of handles and
below this filling the remaining third, I place a strip of sycamore or other suitable
wood (Fig. 1 D D) both these substances extending the whole width of handles.
In the two outer cuts I insert a piece of sheet cork commencing at the top and
extending about one third the way down (Fig. 1 A A.) and below that for another
third I place a strip of india rubber (Fig. 1 CC) both these substances also extend
the whole width of handles.
I now proceed to glue or otherwise fix all together, work down to the required
size and shape and finish off in the usual manner.
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
The constructing of cricket bat handles, composed of cane cork, india rubber and
wood, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 12th day of January 1897.
HERBERT GRADIDGE.