IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MARKING DIVISIONS AND BOUNDARIES FOR LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER PIIDDOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Fathers, of Farthinghoc, near Brackley, in the
County of Northampton, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR MARKING DIVISIONS AND BOUNDARIES FOR LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER
PIIDDOSES "
Sealed the 1st December 1876, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
Sealed the 1st December 1876, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, and
dated the 19th May 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Fathers at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1876.
BENJAMIN FATHERS, of Farthinghoe, near Brackley, in the County of North-
ampton. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MARKING DIVISIONS AND BOUNDARIES
FOR LAWN TENNIS AND OTHER PURPOSES."
The improvements consist in covering the circumferential surface of a wheel or
wheels with sponge, tow, felt, or other absorbent material, upon and into which
white or colored wash is allowed to run from any convenient vessel placed on a
frame or otherwise above such wheel or wheels, and the moving such wheel or
wheels over the divisions or boundaries desired, and marking them by the weight
of the wheel and its friction, squeezing out and leaving on the ground the colored
material with which the absorbent rim is charged.
The improvements may be performed by arranging a wheel and color vessel in
any convenient manner so that color may flow on the absorbent rim furnished to
said wheel, but their weight must be sufficient to properly squeeze out the color as
the wheel is made to travel; this weight will vary according to the size of the
mark required.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Benjamin Fathers in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 1st December 1876.
BENJAMIN FATHERS, of Farthinghoe, near Brackley, in the County of North-
ampton. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MARKING DIVISIONS AND BOUNDARIES
FOR LAWNS TENNIS AND OTHER PURPOSES,”
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page_text: The improvements consist in covering the circumferential surface of a wheel or
wheels with sponge, tow, felt, or other absorbent material, upon and into which
white or colored wash is allowed to run from any convenient vessel placed on a
frame or otherwise above such wheel or wheels, and the moving such wheel or
wheels over the divisions or boundaries desired, and marking them by the weight of
the wheel and its friction, squeezing out and leaving on the ground the colored
material with which the absorbent rim is charged.
The improvements may be performed by arranging a wheel and color vessel in
any convenient manner so that color may flow on the absorbent rim furnished to
said wheel, but their weight must be sufficient to properly squeeze out the color as
the wheel is made to travel; this weight. will vary according to to the size of the
mark required.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing is intended only to illustrate a convenient
and economical means of executing my Invention, as the same may be performed in
many ways without departing from the nature thereof.
The whole Figure represents a longitudinal section through the centre of the
apparatus. a is the under frame or side cheek of the perambulator; b is one of the
two handles for propelling same; c, one of the two following wheels; d, single
front wheel in section; e, the flannel, felt, or other soft circumference of d; f, the
barrel containing the paint or other fluid, which by means of a tap g is allowed to
flow in any desired quantity on to the absorbent materiale; h is a pivoted support
for the barrel f, which can consequently be approached to or receded from contact
with the periphery of the wheel d. The wheel & may if desired be hollow, and
contain the paint or other fluid, and breaks may occur in the periphery of the
wheel, by which a dotted line in lieu of a strong line may be marked on the ground.
The length of the dashes may also be regulated so as to mark a measure or scale
upon the ground. A basket or other receptacle, not shown in the Drawing, may
be added to contain stones or such like heavy bodies, and so weight the machine
and modify the pressure on the wheel d, and thus produce a narrow or wide mark
as desired. Also within the barrel or reservoir f may be fixed a stirrer or bladed
fan made to rotate on a shaft furnished with mitred or other gearing worked by a
band fixed to the axle of the wheel d, or other arrangement introduced to stir up
the coloring matter in fas the machine travels, to prevent sediment, and promote
the flow of the coloring matter.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Fathers, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.