US1178361A - Ornamented rubber ball. - Google Patents

Description

0. Wm SCIVER.

ORNAMENTED RUBBER BA'LL.

APPLICATION FILED APR- 19, I915.

11,178,36 1 Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGIAPH 110., WASHINGTON. D. c.

CHETWOOD VAN SCIVER, 0F LAMBERTVILLE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO LAMBERT- VILLE RUBBER. COMPANY, OF LAMBERTVILLE, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

onnennnrnn RUBBER BALL.

Application filed April 19, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHn'rwooD VAN Sorvnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lambertville, in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Ornamented Rubber Balls, of which the follow ing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in ornamented rubber balls.

The objects of the invention are to provide a rubber ball of a novel, distinctive and extremely attractive appearance, ornamented in colors with designs of any desired selection, difiering entirely in appearance, however, from the ordinary painted rubber ball and more nearly resembling a ball having its surface of textile material in which the colored designs are woven or printed; and to provide a rubber ball ornamented with suitable designs in colors, which may be produced at a minimum of cost.

The accompanying drawings illustrate a ball in accordance with the invention, the single figure being an elevation of the improved ball.

According to the present invention, the improved ball is ornamented with designs of suitable selection in one or more colors. The coloring medium employed is anilin dye or paint and this medium is applied directly to the rubber surface of the ballby the use of an air brush, the ball being preferably revolved at relatively slow speed in a suitable lathe during the manipulation of the air brush.

The ball ornamented in the manner above described has the general appearance of a ball covered with textile material in which the colored designs are woven or printed. The surface of the ball, both where it is colored and where it is plain, is of a uniform dullness throughout the area of the ball; and the lines or figures in colors on the ball, while having definiteness as to their direction and form, lack definiteness as to their bounds and gradually shade off into the uncolored portions of the ball. Thus, while the design with which the ball is ornamented is defined with perfect clearness, the ornamentation is characterized'by a lack of bril- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. at, 1916. Serial No. 22,398.

liancy or harshness and by a lack of definite demarcation between the dull or subdued colored lines of the design and the similarly dull or subdued neutral colored exposed surfaces of the rubber. In this way, the design, as a whole, is uniformly subdued throughout the entire surface of the ball.

The peculiar effects obtained are doubtless due, in part, to the partial absorption of some of the anilin dye by the rubber; to the dull, neutral colored surface of the rubber; and to the fact that when the lines are applied by an air brush there is a lack of uniformity in their application, the lines being relatively wide and being more intense throughout their central portions than throughout their marginal portions which fade or shade imperceptibly into the adja cent area's, whether such areas be the colored areas of other lines or the neutral color of the rubber. The invention has been designated, for convenience, as an ornamented rubber ball, but obviously includes within its scope balls having similar ornamental effects where such effects are due to the use of anilin dyes or paints applied with an air brush against a dull, neutral surface capable of partly absorbing the anilin dyes or paints.

Having fully described my invention, I claim 1. As a new article of manufacture and sale, a rubber ball having its rubber surface ornamented with any desired lines or figures by blowing directly against the same an anilin dye or paint.

2. As a new article of manufacture and sale, a ball having a dull, neutral colored surface capable of partially absorbing an anilin dye and ornamented with any desired lines or figures by the direct application to said surface of an anilin dye or paint blown against the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GHETWOOD VAN SCIVER.

l/Vitnesses:

J. WM. FIsHnR, CHARLOTTE LYMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0,

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