An Improvement of Cricket Stumps and Bails.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 6th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement of Cricket Stumps and Bails.
I, CHARLES ROSE Junr. 21 Dorset Street Southampton Cricket Bat Maker &c.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
The
As shown in accompanying full sized drawings at A and B, the wicket_is
erected in the usual manner, the stumps being driven into the ground.
tops of the stumps are shaped for hammering; the ordinary groove being
substituted by a solid top, which constitutes part of the said improvement. Shallow
sockets are made at the sides of the stumps, at a convenient distance from the top,
into which the bails are fitted after the stumps are in position.
The bails are fitted between the stumps, instead of being laid upon the top; the long
ends are substituted by slight, rounded projections, which fit into the aforesaid sockets.
The bails are quickly adjusted by pressing them gently into the sockets, & are held
in position by the firmness of the stumps. By shortening the projection at the ends
of the bails the wicket may be made more sensitive than the ordinary wicket with
bails on the top.
The novelty" claimed by me is for stumps without grooves on the top; and for
bails to be fitted between the stumps.
For the "improvements" I claim that the stumps are more suitable for driving;
that they cannot get out of order, where the bails are fitted by any amount of fair
use; that the fingers cannot be cut open as with grooved stumps; that expensivo
metal tops may be dispensed with for greater economy. That the constant breakage
of bails is absolutely prevented; that the danger to the wicket keeper is diminished
by taking away the long ends of the bails; that no time can be lost by a strong wind
rolling the bails off; that the wicket cannot become too wide at the top without
detection; that the top of the wicket is equally vulnerable at all points, being as high
at the corners as at any other point; that a perfectly fair & uniform wicket is
obtained in strict accordance with the spirit of the game.
Dated this 18th day of Danawhar 1880.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement of Cricket Stumps and Bails.
I, CHARLES ROSE the younger of 21 Dorset Street in the Town and County of
Southampton, 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 for the improvement of cricket stumps and bails relates to wickets
used in the game of cricket each wicket being composed of three stumps of equal
length fixed upright in the ground and two bails of equal length laid upon and
across the tops of the said stumps; and consists essentially of improvements in the
form of the bails, also in the form of the tops of the stumps, and the manner in which
the bails are supported by the stumps.
In the drawing left with the Provisional Specification
A is a plain solid top.
Bis a short rounded projection at the end of the bail lodged into a corresponding

page_text: 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. Cricket stumps with plain solid tops with sockets or grooves at the sides to
lodge the ends of bails into substantially as described.
2. Bails with a short rounded projection at each end to be lodged into sockets
or grooves in the sides of stumps substantially as described with reference to the
drawing.
Dated this 19th day of September 1890.