Improvements in Battledores and Shuttlecocks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 10th Apr. 1894-Accepted. 12th May. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Battledores and Shuttlecocks.
EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL Agent 50 Weaman Street Birmingham, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
I propose to make the battledores out of thin sheet metal enclosing cane round
the edge which also forms the handle.
Also making the bow & handle with cane & using cloth in the bow.
The shuttlecock made with the feathers fixed in a metal crown, which holds them
in their right position.
Also the crown holding the feathers I make to turn round independently of the
base of the shuttlecock, they being detached & connected by means of a kind
of pivot.
Also fixing a figure or figures on the base of the shuttlecock.
Also fitting shuttlecocks with artificial (or imitation) feathers.
Dated the 7th January 1894.
EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Battledores and Shuttlecocks.
I EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL, of No. 50 Weaman Street Birmingham
Commission Agent do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My improvements in battledores have for their object to simplify the manu-
facture of the said battledores and consist in making the bow and handle of the
said battledores of one piece of cane the middle part being bent into the form of
the bow while the two ends forming the handle are straight and parallel and are
preferably strung together with waxed thread or string in a manner similar to the
stringing of the handles of cricket and other bats. My improvements consist
further in making the palm of the said battledores of cloth or fabric.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent respectively in elevation
and edge view, the latter partly in section, a battledore constructed according to
my invention.
The same letters indicate the same parts in Figures 1 and 2.
a, a², a is the cane forming the handle a and bow a' of the battledore and 6 is the
palm of cloth or fabric. The said cloth palm 6 is secured to the bow a' by slitting
that portion of the cane forming the bow a' and while the said palm is stretched in
the bow securing its edges between the slit portion of the bow by stitches as
represented. The edge of the palm b may however be secured in the slit portion
of the bow by other means such for example as by glueing or cementing the edges
of the said cloth in the slit parts the bow being kept under pressure until the glue
or cement has set and hardened; or the slit parts of the bow may be secured
together by riveting the rivets passing through the edge of the cloth palm.
Although I have represented the handle strung with waxed thread or string,
and prefer to bind the parallel parts of the cane forming the handle together in
that way, yet I do not limit myself to securing the parallel parts of the cane
together with string as they may be secured together at top and bottom only or at
three or more points by riveting or otherwise. The handle in Figure 1 is
represented only partly strung for the purpose of showing the ends of the cane.

page_text: My improvements in shuttlecocks consist in forming the crown or that part to
which the feathers or substitutes for feathers are fixed from sheet metal by
stamping, and in the method of securing the feathers to the said metal crowns.
Further, the said crowns may be situated on an axis carried by the base of the
shuttlecock so that the said crown and feathers or body part of the shuttlecock
may rotate in its flight through the air independent of the said base.
Figure 3 represents a shuttlecock made according to one arrangement of my
invention; and Figures 4 and 5 represent respectively in vertical section and plan
drawn to a larger scale the metal crown c of the said shuttlecock.
The said metal crown c consists essentially of a cup or dish of sheet metal the
side of which has a series of holes d formed in it by piercing, the pierced out
pieces of metal forming outwardly projecting tongues e. The stems or quills of the
feathers fare passed into the holes d and are secured therein by pressing back the
tongues e so as to grip the stems or quills of the feathers between the edges of
the holes d and the edges of the tongues e. I prefer to cover the underside of the
metal crown c with a capsule g of celluloid or parchment as represented in Figure 3,
the edges of the capsule being passed under the tongues e before the stems or
quills of the feathers fare introduced into and secured in their holes d in the crown.
Figure 6 represents a modified form of the shuttlecock Figure 3; and Figures 7
and 8 represent respectively in vertical section and plan drawn to a larger scale,
the crown and base of the shuttlecock before the feathers are secured to the same.
This shuttlecock differs from that represented by Figure 3 in the respects that a
cork or other yielding pad is enclosed in the capsule g so as to present to the
part struck by the battledore a highly elastic pad. The shuttlecock Figure 6 also
has a celluloid or other ornamental ring i between the ornamental top of the
crown and the stem of the feathers.
; and
Figure 9 represents another shuttlecock made according to my invention
Figures 10 and 11 represent respectively in vertical section and plan the metal
crown of the same drawn to a larger scale and Figure 12 represents in vertical
section the base of the same drawn to the same scale as Figures 10 and 11.
The cork or other base of this shuttlecock carries an axis k on which the
crown c is fixed so as to be capable of a rotary motion thereon (see Figure 10).
The said axis has a celluloid or other ball l. The said ball 7 may be made of
transparent or nearly transparent celluloid and figures or ornaments may be
enclosed therein. The axis k of the shuttlecock Figure 10 may be prolonged
upwards so as to carry two three or more crowns c with feathers fas represented
by Figure 13 where three crowns with feathers are shown; Figures 14 and 15
represent respectively in vertical section and plan drawn to a larger scale one of the
crowns detached. In compound shuttlecocks of this kind I prefer to arrange the
vanes of the feathers of the several crowns so that alternate series of feathers
only, will rotate in the same direction, the vanes of the intermediate feathers
being so arranged as to rotate in the opposite direction.
Instead of the several crowns of the compound shuttlecock being arranged above
one another as represented in Figure 13, they may be arranged on different axes
as represented in Figure 16. In this case
a cross shaft m is secured to the
principal axis k the ends of the said cross shaft carrying the axes k³ for the side
crowns.
Figures 17 and 18 represent respectively in vertical section and plan, drawn to
a larger scale the connection of one of the side crowns c with the cross shaft m.
In the shuttlecock Figure 16 ornamental figures or devices, such for example as
.birds, may be arranged on the cross shaft m.
Having now particularly described and ascertain the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of " Improvements in Battledores and Shuttlecocks."
First. Making the bows and handles of battledores of one piece of cane, the
middle portion of the said cane being bent so as to form the bow of the battledore

page_text: and the end portions being brought parallel and secured together so as to form
the handle of the battledore substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly. Making the palms of battledores of cloth or fabric stretched in and
secured to the bow of the battledore substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly. Making the crowns of shuttlecocks of sheet metal and securing the
feathers in the said metal crowns substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Fourthly. The combination with shuttlecocks of a cork or other yielding pad
at that part of the base which when the shuttlecock is in use is struck by the
battledore and securing the said pad to the crown by means of a capsule of
celluloid or parchment substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Fifthly. The combination with shuttlecocks of an axis carried by the base and
attaching the crown carrying the feathers to the said axis so as to make the said
crown capable of a rotary motion on the said axis substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
crowns
Sixthly. The combination with shuttlecocks of two three or more
carrying feathers arranged on the same axis or on parallel axes substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Ninth day of April 1894.
EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL.