An Improvement in Leg Guards used in Playing the Games of Cricket and Football.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Leg Guards used in Playing the Games of
Cricket and Football.
1 WILLIAM DAVID CAMERON of No. 2 Sugarisland Newry in the County of
Armagh Solicitor's Assistant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
A hollow tube made of indiarubber surrounded with cloth, canvas, or other
suitable materials, said hollow tube to contain air under pressure, and to be
attached to cloth, canvas, or other suitable materials made in the shape or form of
leg guards used in playing the games of cricket and football, and be protected from
wear in such method as may be found most suitable.
Dated this 5th day of October 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Leg Guards used in Playing the Games of
Cricket and Football.
I, WILLIAM DAVID CAMERON, of 2 Sugarisland, Newry in the County of
Armagh, Solicitor's Assistant, 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 pneumatic or inflated leg-guards or shin pads for the
use of cricket and foot-ball players.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of one form of pad constructed
according to this invention.
Figure 2 is an elevation of another form of the pad.
Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, and
Figure 4 is an elevation drawn to a smaller scale than Figures 1 to 3 of another
form of the guard or pad.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
In Figure 1 the guard or pad is shown constructed of an outer casing A formed
of two layers of canvas or any other suitable material stitched together at the
These rows
edges and at B or such other parts as may be considered necessary.
of stitching divide the case A into a number of parallel and curved passages which
are adapted to receive an indiarubber or equivalent tube C for containing air under
pressure, the two ends of which at Care plugged or closed in any desired manner.
At, conveniently the top of the central part C of the pipe C, I attach a non-return
valve D which may be of any desired construction; or this valve may be attached
to the air-tube C at any other desired part.
It will be readily understood that the before described pad may be inflated by
the attachment to D of a pump or inflator which may be of any of the usual types
now ordinarily used for inflating pneumatic tyres.
The guard or pad shown in Figures 2 and 3 is constructed of two sheets of
fabric each coated on one side with indiarubber. These two sheets are cemented
or otherwise connected together at the parts B to correspond with the parts
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page_text: connected together in the first described example by the rows of stitching B.
These two sheets of fabric may also be cemented or otherwise attached to each
other at the parts marked B¹.
If required the last described pad may be strengthened at any desired parts by
the addition of strips of suitable stiffening material. In this last described example
the non-return valve D is applied at one side of the pad but it will be understood
that it may as readily be applied to any other part. In this example moreover as
distinguished from the arrangement shown in Figure 1 the vertical passages C all
terminate in one common chamber C which extends right across the lower part of
the guard or pad and around the portions B¹ thereof.
The guards or pads shown in Figures 1 and 2 may be attached to the leg of the
wearer by straps such as shown in Figure 4, secured to the pad in any convenient
manner, or by any other suitable means.
The guard or pad shown in Figure 4 is constructed of a tube A of fabric with
an indiarubber or equivalent air-tube C enclosed within it both being bent
backwards and forwards to the form indicated and at the ends coiled round to form
the ankle protectors at which part the ends of the tube C are plugged or closed in
any convenient manner. The whole may then be vulcanized together or the
various folds of the tubes A. C may be connected together merely by the
straps E.
The arrangements illustrated in the accompanying drawings are merely given as
examples as it will be understood that the invention is susceptible of various
modifications for example the guard or pad may consist merely of a bag of fabric
stitched through and through at the desired parts the inflatable air-tube being
threaded through the passages thus formed and having at one end a suitable non-
return valve, the other end being plugged or closed in any convenient manner.
The guard or pad may be inflated with air or other desired medium under
pressure.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. An inflatable or pneumatic leg guard or shin pad.
2. The combination with a leg guard or shin pad of an inflatable chamber.
3. The combination with a leg guard or shin pad of an air-tube such as C and
non-return valve substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying a
drawings.
4. A leg guard or shin pad constructed of two walls or sheets of fabric
connected together at various parts to form an air-chamber or series of air-
chambers substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.
5. The complete pneumatic leg guard or shin pad substantially as described and
illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings.
6. The complete pneumatic leg guard or shin pad substantially as described and
illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
7. The complete pneumatic leg guard or shin pad substantially as described and 4
illustrated in Figure 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th dow of Tul. 1904
WM. D. CAMERON.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicant.