An Improved Manufacture of Sockets for Game Courts and other Places where Rectangular Lines are required to be Marked Out.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Sockets for Game Courts and other
Places where Rectangular Lines are required to be Marked Out.
I, JAMES LE MESSURIER, of St. Clair, 31, Sassfeld Road, Balham, in the
County of Surrey, of no occupation, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of angle irons placed at the corners and
angles of game courts or other spaces necessary to be marked out with rectangular
lines.
The angle irons at present in use are mere flat smooth pieces of iron attached
to the ground by iron feet, and the marking of courts has to be done from the out-
side of them thus cutting up and disturbing the ground.
According to my invention the angle irons may be stamped out or cast in one
piece, feet and all-or may have spikes attached to their undersides, but in every
case they are made with the improved invention I claim, namely a hollow socket or
receptacle in the angle or centre of angles of the iron for the purpose of holding the
peg or pin used in the measurement of the court or space.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Sockets for Game Courts and other
Places where Rectangular Lines are required to be Marked Out.
I, JAMES LE MESSURIER of St. Clair, 31 Sassfeld Road, Balham in the
County of Surrey of no occupation 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 relates to the manufacture of angle irons placed at the corners and
angles of game courts or other spaces necessary to be marked out by rectangular
lines. The angle irons at present in use are mere flat smooth pieces of iron
attached to the ground by iron feet and the marking of courts has to be done from
the outside of them thus cutting up and disturbing the ground.
According to my invention the angle or corner irons are formed with a hollow
socket or receptacle in the angle or centre of angles of the iron for the purpose of
holding a peg or pin to which a measure or cord may be secured to be used in the
measurement and marking out of the court or space.
The sockets and angles with their feet may be cast together in one piece or they
may be formed separately and afterwards secured the one to the other.
Another advantage of forming the corner pieces with a socket to receive a pin
as above described is that in winter their position may be marked by inserting into
the socket a pin having a head which projects somewhat above the socket. In
this way the corner pieces can readily be found in the spring whereas with ordinary
corner pieces there is frequently in the spring difficulty in finding them as they are
apt to become covered with earth.
The drawing annexed shews various views of a corner piece formed with a socket
as above described.
Figure is a plan, Figures 2 and 3 are elevations, and Figure 4 is a vertical
section through the socket, and Figure 5 is a plan of a T shaped corner piece.
A is the corner or angle piece with feet B projecting downwards from it to be

page_text: driven into the ground. C is the vertical socket into which a pin D can be
dropped.
If the pin is raised somewhat in the socket a loop at the end of a cord may
be passed around it and the cord led away to the pin of another corner piece and
stretched taut and then secured around this second pin. The cord so stretched
from between the two pins then forms a guide for marking a line between the two
pins. The pin may as shewn be formed with a bevilled head which does not fit
accurately within the mouth of the socket into which the pin is placed, so the pin
may be readily taken hold of and lifted.
In winter pins formed with heads which stand up above the sockets may as above
stated be substituted for pins the heads of which are flush with the top of the
sockets.
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. Corner pieces for lawn tennis courts and other places having a socket for the
reception of a peg or pin substantially as described.
2. Corner pieces for lawn tennis courts substantially as described.
J. LE MESSURIER.