Improvements in the Manufacture of Sheaths or Cases for Rackets or Bats, Sporting Guns, and other Objects.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1889-Accepted, 20th July. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sheaths or Cases for Rackets
or Bats, Sporting Guns, and other Objects.
I, OTTO BING of 35 Quai de Javel (Impasse Payen) Paris, France Manufacturer
of strings for musical instruments, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of cases or sheaths for tennis rackets or
bats, sporting guns and other objects, and has for its object to provide sheaths or
cases conforming in shape to the article to be enclosed therein.
The mode of manufacture is by means of a pair of heated iron moulds male and
female corresponding in form to the half of the sheath to be made, with an inter-
vening space corresponding to the intended thickness of the material, these moulds
being heated by means of surrounding gas jets within a casing or jacket, or in any
other suitable manner.
The material of which the sheaths are made is paper, of which a number of layers,
according to the desired thickness, are employed, the layers being pasted or glued
together and the whole covered with canvas or other fabric which is glued to the
paper foundation. The cavity of the bed or female die having been lined with pieces
of paper in superposed layers coated with adhesive material as above described, the
upper die is brought down thereon and sufficient pressure exerted by the two heated
moulds to consolidate the paper and press it up to the desired form or contour, after
which the half shell is cut or trimmed round the edges. It only remains to hinge
together or otherwise connect two such half shells produced at separate operations to
complete the sheath or case which may be lined with flannel or other material.
Dated this 16th day of August 1888.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sheaths or Cases for Rackets
or Bats, Sporting Guns, and other Objects.
I OTTO BING of 35 Quai de Javel (Impasse Payen) Paris, France, Manufacturer
of strings for musical instruments, 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 cases or sheaths for tennis rackets or
bats, sporting guns and other objects, and the purpose of the invention is to
provide a sheath or case conforming in shape and dimensions to the article to be
enclosed therein.
The sheaths are made of paper, of which a number of layers are superposed
according to the desired thickness of the sheath, the layers being pasted or glued
together and finally covered with canvas or other fabric which is glued to the paper
foundation.
The sheaths or cases are made in halves and the layers of paper of which they are
composed are consolidated and pressed into shape by means of a pair of iron moulds.
or dies male and female corresponding in form to one half of the sheath to be made,
a space intervening between the moulds when brought together, which
corresponds to the intended thickness of the material, the moulds being placed in a
space
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page_text: suitable press and being heated by means of surrounding gas jets within a casing or
jacket, or in any other suitable manner.
The lower or bed die or mould having been clothed or lined with pieces of paper
in superposed layers coated with adhesive material and covered with canvas as above
described, the upper die or mould is brought down and sufficient pressure exerted
thereon to consolidate the paper and press it to the desired form or contour, after
which the half shell is cut or trimmed round the edges.
Two such half shells produced at separate operations as above described are then
hinged or otherwise connected together to complete the sheath or case, which may
be afterwards lined with flannel or other material.
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-
The manufacture of sheaths or cases for tennis rackets or bats, sporting guns and
other objects, substantially in the manner hereinbefore described."
GUS GU
1980.
LTRI MUS G va V
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
U. BING.
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.