Improvements in Shuttlecocks.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shuttlecocks.
We, ANN JANE JACKSON, the wife of Robert Harry Jackson, of No. 4, Castle
Street, Northwich, in the County of Chester, Solicitor, and the said ROBERT
HARRY JACKSON, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A shuttlecock formed (instead of the feathers used in the construction of an
ordinary shuttlecock) of silk or other textile material of a different colour
or a different combination of colours on the two sides and so constructed as to
turn inside out with each blow of the battledore or instrument used for striking
it thus causing it to come down with one colour or combination of colours shewing
on the outside and to go up after being struck with the battledore with another
colour or combination of colours shewing on the outside.
Dated this 19th day of Auril
1898
A. J. JACKSON.
R. H. JACKSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shuttlecocks.
We, ANN JANE JACKSON, the wife, of Robert Harry Jackson, of No. 4, Castle
Street, Northwich, in the County of Chester, Solicitor, and the said ROBERT
HARRY JACKSON, 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:-
Improved shuttlecocks made with silk or other textile material instead of
feathers as in ordinary shuttlecocks hitherto in use, the silk or textile material
being shaped like a hollow cone but wanting the apex, with a general resemblance
to the conical shape of the feathers in an ordinary shuttlecock.
A ring or hoop of cane or other suitable material runs round and is attached
to the edge of the textile material at the wide end or base of the cone, and a
ball or weight is attached in the narrow end of the cone, so that when the
shuttlecock comes down and the ball or weight is struck, the ball or weight will
pass upwards through the cone dragging with it the silk or other material and
so turning the cone inside out.
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page_text: The silk or other material is loosely attached to the ring and also to the ball
or weight so that it will readily turn inside out.
The ball or weight may be hung by strings or threads to a ring smaller
than the one used for the base or wide end of the cone and attached round the
edge of the narrow end of the cone so that in ascending or descending the ball
or weight will be slightly above or below the narrower end of the cone.
If such smaller ring is used it must be of such a size as that the ball or
weight will readily pass through it when struck.
The silk or other material to be of a different colour or combination of colours
on the two sides, so that the shuttlecock will, on being turned inside out by the
blow of the battledore, go up with a different colour or combination of colours
showing outside from the colour or combination of colours which shewed outside
as it came down before the blow.
Instead of a single thickness of silk or other material of one colour or com-
bination of colours on one side and a different colour or combination of colours
on the other side, two thicknesses of silk or other material may be used, one of
one colour or combination of colours, and the other of a different colour or
combination of colours.
To make the shuttlecock turn inside out more easily the silk or other material
is attached round the inside of the larger ring and round the outside of the
smaller ring.
In the accompanying drawing Figure I. is an elevation of the shuttlecock in
the act of descending, and Figure II. is a section of it in the act of ascending.
"A" is the larger ring with feathers "F, F," attached; "B" is the silk or
other textile material forming the body of the shuttlecock; "C" is the smaller
ring "D" is the ball or weight; "E, E," are the threads or cords attaching
the ball or weight to the smaller ring: "F, F," are the feathers: "G" is the
line shewing the connection of the silk or other textile material round the middle
of the inside of the larger ring; and "H" is the line shewing the connection of
the silk or other textile material round the outside of the smaller ring..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is: -
1. The herein described method of making shuttlecocks which will turn inside
out when struck upwards.
2. The use as herein described of silk or other textile material (instead of
feathers) for making the shuttlecock.
3. The use as herein described of silk or other textile material of one colour
or combination of colours on one side and a different colour or combination of
colours on the other side.
4. The use as herein described (instead of one thickness of silk or other textile
material) of two thicknesses of silk or other textile material, one thickness being
of one colour or combination of colours, and the other thickness being of a
different colour or combination of colours.
5. The use in combination with a shuttlecock such as is claimed in Claim
Number 1 hereof of one or more rings as herein described for making the
shuttlecock.
6. The use in combination with a shuttlecock such as is claimed in Claim
Number 1 hereof of the loose ball or weight as herein described for making
the shuttlecock.
7. The method in combination with a shuttlecock such as is claimed in Claim
Number 1 hereof of attaching the ball or weight by means of strings or cords
to the inside of the smaller ring.
8. The method in combination with a shuttlecock such as is claimed in Claim
Number 1 hereof of attaching the silk or other textile material round the inside
of the larger ring.

page_text: 9. The method in combination with a shuttlecock such as is claimed in Claim
Number hereof of attaching the silk or other textile material round the outside
of the smaller ring.
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