improvements in Ticket Dars.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
improvements in Ticket Dars.
I, ARTHUR ASHTON, of 14 Belle Vue Road, Leeds, in the County of York,
Cricket Bat Maker, 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 improvements in the construction of the handles of
cricket bats and the mode of joining the same to the bodies of the bats. I construct
the handle in two pieces joined together lengthwise, each piece having a wedge or
splice piece, formed on one of its ends which, when the two pieces are cemented or
glued together form a fork that presents four sides or surfaces as a means of
securing it to the body of the bat.
Each of the splice pieces is inserted and fits accurately in a correspondingly
wedge shaped groove or recess formed in the upper end of the body of the bat,
thus forming a double splice, and when glued or cemented therein the handle is
more firmly secured to the body of the bat than is the case with the single splice
heretofore usual.
By making the handle in two pieces, I am better able to fit the wedge or splice
pieces into their grooves or recesses than would otherwise be possible. After the
two pieces forming the handle have been glued together and the handle turned
I prefer to form in such handle at right angles to the plane of division between its
two parts, a groove longitudinal slit that extends for a certain distance down the
handle and is fitted with a piece of sheet india rubber.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a front view, Fig. 2 a side view and Fig. 3 a plan of a cricket bat
constructed according to this invention.
aand al are the two pieces forming the handle of the bat and on the lower ends
of which are formed the wedge shaped splice pieces and the four surfaces cccc
of which fit against and are cemented or glued to the surfaces of a corresponding
pair of wedge shaped recesses formed in the body d of the bat. is the longitudinal
groove or recess formed in the handle transversely to the joint between its two
parts and in which is inserted a strip of india rubber after which the two parts
of the handle are bound tightly together at top and bottom by twine g.
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. A cricket bat having its handle formed of two longitudinal parts each provided
with a wedge shaped portion the two wedge shape portions projecting into and
being secured within a pair of correspondingly shaped recesses formed in the body
of the bat substantially as described.
2. The improved cricket bat having its handle made in two parts secured to the
body of the bat by a pair of wedge shaped portions, and provided with a strip of

page_text: india rubber fitted in a longitudinal slit arranged at right angles to the plane of
division between its two parts, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 4th day of September 1895.
R. E. P. CRAVEN,
Registered Patent Agent,
22 Victoria Chambers, South Parade, Leeds,
Agent for the Applicant.
R. E. P. CRAVEN,
Registered Patent Agent,
22 Victoria Chambers, South Parade, Leeds,
Agent for the Applicant.