US1367492A - Baseball-bat and method of making same - Google Patents

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G. B. MILES.

BASEBALL BAT AND METHOD 0F MAKING SAME.

APPLICATION FILED HAR, I9, I920. 1,367,492. Patented Feb. 1,1921.

INVENTOR.

A TTORNEYJ suenen B. Mrnns; or

W'ASHINGTON,

ILLINOIS..

BASEBALL-BAT ANB :METHOD 0F MAKING- SAME.

Application 'Elea `iaarch 19, 3.926.

To @ZZ 107mm t may concern Be it known that I, Geenen B. llt/litres, a citizen of the United States, residing at l/Vashington, in the county of Tazewell and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baseballdats and Methods of Making Same7 of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatesA to a baseball bat and a method of forming the same and has for one of its objects the provision of an indestructible bat formed of a multiplicity of longitudinal straight grained rods grouped with a glue of insoluble character lirmly binding the separate rods together to form a composite article. It is to be noted that while the invention is herein referred to as adaptable for the manufacture of baseball bats, it is nevertheless equally well adaptable to the manufacture of any kind of articles such as masts., poles and the like wherein great strength with a requisite degree of resiliency are required. Ideretofore, in playing` base-ball, games have often been lost by the breaking of a bat which would spoil an otherwise good hit. rlhe breaking of the hat, aside from sometimes losing the game for the side at bat also causes great inconven ience to the player who may have been particularly used to the bat which is broken and7 suddenly deprived of its use, his playing is impaired,

In former days willow was the wood which gave the greatest resiliency in a bat for baseball, out due to the fact that bats made of willow were so easily fractured. it was iinally discarded in favor of tougher woods such as hickory and the like.

However, with the present invention the return to favor of the willow bat is assured by reason of the fact that the bat according to the present invention built from longitudinally disposed straight grained individual elements grouped together in composite form provides a willow bat which is equal if not superior in strength to any single piece of hickory, oak, ash or other material.

A further object of the invention resides in so assembling the bat that the weight may be properly distributed throughout the length of the bat for accurate balancing of the same.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bat Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented I* el). it, 12921.

Serial No. 3671137.

constructed according to the present invention with a portion of the surface thereof scraped away to show the construction;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l showing the longitudinal straight grained elements or rods grouped ready to receive the insoluble glue which forms the binder therefor;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the grouped rods or elements shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4- of Fig.. 3 showing the individual rods or elements worked to shape by compression or otherwise;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the rods.

In detail:

The invention as herein shown. illustrates a baseball bat l formed of a multiplicity of separate straight grained wooden rods 2 which are grouped as indicated in Fig. 2 and immersed or otherwise filled with a coinposition forming an insoluble glue which, when the glue is thoroughly dried7 firmly binds the separate rod-like elements l into a composite article.

In manufacturing the bat the said assembled rod-like elements may be pressed to shape before the hardening of the glue filler or the glue filler may be allowed. to harden and the composite piece thus formed iinally worked to shape by turning or, if desirable, the composite group filled with glue may be pressed to a desired form and afterward worked by turning or spoke shaving to the linal form.

By the use of a multiplicity of round straight grained longitudinally disposed wooden rods the strength of a bat thus cornpositely formed is far in excess of bats formed of built-up mortise segments.

I am aware that, in the past there have been patented numerous bats which have been built-up to composite form from pieces of wood sawed or cut to shape for assembling into a mortised structure but so far as I am aware no previous hat, mast or staff has been formed of a series of longitudinal straight grained wooden rods assembled with a filler of glue in the `manner herein described.

I claim l. A bat consisting of a plurality of small straight-grained wooden rods disposed 1ongtudnally of the bat and extending from and to end heee, alle?, an insoluble binder ncosieg ali 'the rods and ilnfg the imeistices between them.

2. The method of producing" a bat which csnssts in assembling a pualty of.: small Wooden rods each equal in len'th to the Laenge eugth of the finished bat, mmelsing the assembe, ms t1 an nsolube binde?, dfy ing he bne and Wolfi ing Jhe dried nssembage 50 Shape.

En testimony Whereo' my signature.

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