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US1023904A
US1023904A US57014410A US1910570144A US1023904A US 1023904 A US1023904 A US 1023904A US 57014410 A US57014410 A US 57014410A US 1910570144 A US1910570144 A US 1910570144A US 1023904 A US1023904 A US 1023904A
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    • A63SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63BAPPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
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  • My invention relates to balls and the method of making them and more particularly to elastic inflated .balls, for example, a pall such as is commonly known as a tennis all.
  • the object is to provide an inflated elastic ball,-t-he wall of which will be self-sealing after the inflating needle is removed, without requiring the use of a rubber plug or teat on the interior of the wall to seal the opening.
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of the ball blank, the cover being broken away to show a depression in the elastic wall of the blank.
  • Fig. 2 is a view in elevation, partly in section, showing the inflating needle in position ready for inflating the ball, and
  • Fig. 3 is a view in elevation, partly in section, showing the ball as it appears when inflated.
  • the elastic wall or body of the ball is denoted by 1, and may be made of a suitable rubber compound as is common.
  • the cover or'jacket which may be of soft cloth, is de noted by 2.
  • the elastic body or wall of the ball is normally molded in spherical form save only a depression 3, the eutent of the wall of the depression 3 being preferably somewhat greater than the extent of the fair surface of the sphere bounded by the marginal line that is to say, if the wall 'of the sphere were to be projected .to form a fair surface of the sphere instead of being depressed, that part of the surface of the sphere so projected instead of depressed, would be somewhat less in area than the area of the depressed wall.
  • the purpose of this construction is to cause that portion of the wall which forms the depression to become compressed to a greater or lesser degree when it is forced from its normal molded position shown in Fig. 2, into its inflated position shown in Fig. 3.
  • a soft cloth acket or cover 2 When the wall has been molded as shown in Fig. 2, it is covered with a soft cloth" acket or cover 2, the latter being preferably 7 Fig. 3.
  • a method of making an inflatable ball consisting in forming a wall of suitable elastic material, the wall having a general spherical form with a portion thereof depressed,. inserting an inflating needle throughthe depressed portion of the wall sphere as hereinabove exand introducing an inflating fluid to force the depressed portion of the wallinto the fair surface of the sphere.
  • An inflatable bal provided with a wall of elastic material, a portion of the .elastic wall surrounding the point where an inflatih needle was inserted to inflate the ball hemg compressed and held in a compressed condition by the outward pressure oifthe inof June 1910.

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H. R. WE-HPLE.
BALL. Arrmonxo x rILnn JULY 2, 1910.
1,023,904, Patentd Apr. 23, 1912.
v of the said depression;
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BALL.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Application filed July :2, 1910. .Serial No. 570,144.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known'that I, Honacn R. WEMPLE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Balls, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to balls and the method of making them and more particularly to elastic inflated .balls, for example, a pall such as is commonly known as a tennis all.
The object is to provide an inflated elastic ball,-t-he wall of which will be self-sealing after the inflating needle is removed, without requiring the use of a rubber plug or teat on the interior of the wall to seal the opening.
A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings in which,
Figure 1 is a plan view of the ball blank, the cover being broken away to show a depression in the elastic wall of the blank. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation, partly in section, showing the inflating needle in position ready for inflating the ball, and Fig. 3 is a view in elevation, partly in section, showing the ball as it appears when inflated.
The elastic wall or body of the ball is denoted by 1, and may be made of a suitable rubber compound as is common. The cover or'jacket which may be of soft cloth, is de noted by 2.
The elastic body or wall of the ball is normally molded in spherical form save only a depression 3, the eutent of the wall of the depression 3 being preferably somewhat greater than the extent of the fair surface of the sphere bounded by the marginal line that is to say, if the wall 'of the sphere were to be projected .to form a fair surface of the sphere instead of being depressed, that part of the surface of the sphere so projected instead of depressed, would be somewhat less in area than the area of the depressed wall. The purpose of this construction is to cause that portion of the wall which forms the depression to become compressed to a greater or lesser degree when it is forced from its normal molded position shown in Fig. 2, into its inflated position shown in Fig. 3.
When the wall has been molded as shown in Fig. 2, it is covered with a soft cloth" acket or cover 2, the latter being preferably 7 Fig. 3.
'is inflated and brought cemented to the outer surface of the wall 1,
which forms the depression 3, causing that portion of the wall to assume a position in the fair surface The needle 4 may then be withdrawn from its inflating position and theopening or puncture made by the needle will be permanently sealed by the inward pressure of the" surrounding condensed elastic material 5, see Fig. 3, which originally formed the wall of the depression 3. This self-sealing feature does away with the necessity of introducing an additional plug or teat of sealing material on the inner wall of the ball which has heretofore rendered the ball heavier on one side than the other and caused it to wabble during its flight.
While I prefer to make the wall of the depression somewhat greater in extent than the fair surface of the sphere corresponding thereto, as above pression will still seal the puncture when it into the fair surface of the sphere even if it be substantially the same in extent as the corresponding fair surface of the sphere because of the contraction of the inner portion of the depressed portion of the wallwhen such portion is forced outwardly into the fair surface of the sphere. Furthermore, a ball which has reached the condition 'known as dead, may be renewed byheating it'with a portion of its wall depressed to an extent suflicient to give the depressed portion a normal set and then inflating it and forcing the explained, the normal. de
Patented Apr 1912.;
of the sphere, as shown in said depressed portion outwardly into the fair surface of the plained.
What I claim is:
1. A method of making an inflatable ball consisting in forming a wall of suitable elastic material, the wall having a general spherical form with a portion thereof depressed,. inserting an inflating needle throughthe depressed portion of the wall sphere as hereinabove exand introducing an inflating fluid to force the depressed portion of the wallinto the fair surface of the sphere.
2. The method of making an inflatable ball consisting in forming a wall of suitable elastic material, the wall having a general spherical form with a portion thereof depressed and bf greater superficial area than the fair surface of the said spherical form,
inserting an infietin needle through the depressed portiomof o well and introducing an inflating fiuioi suficient to force the depressed portion of the wall into the fair surface of the s here thereby sealing the hole formed by t e inflating needle-by the. c'om ression of the portion of the wall immdmtely surrou'ndin said perforation.
3. An inflatable bal provided with a wall of elastic material, a portion of the .elastic wall surrounding the point where an inflatih needle was inserted to inflate the ball hemg compressed and held in a compressed condition by the outward pressure oifthe inof June 1910.
HORACE R. WEMPLE.
Witnesses: v
F. GEORGE BARRY, HENRY C. Tammi.
flating fluid and the resistance of the wall 15 name presence of two Witnesses, this thi tieth day 20
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US3921977A (en) * 1974-04-22 1975-11-25 All American Maintenance Inc Tennis ball sealing and inflation means
US4251073A (en) * 1978-06-26 1981-02-17 Birdsong Jr William D Apparatus and method for manufacturing gas-filled balls with precision

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3921977A (en) * 1974-04-22 1975-11-25 All American Maintenance Inc Tennis ball sealing and inflation means
US4251073A (en) * 1978-06-26 1981-02-17 Birdsong Jr William D Apparatus and method for manufacturing gas-filled balls with precision

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