Improvements in Securing Spliced Joints in Shafts or Handles of Golf Clubs, Racquets, Bats, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct.. 1894
Complete Specification Left. 22nd July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
TRUVIDIONALE
Improvements in Securing Spliced Joints in Shafts or Handles of
Golf Clubs, Racquets, Bats, and the like.
I, LEWIS HENRY SMITH, of Kilbowie, Dumbartonshire, Sewing Machine
Expert, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the securing in a simple and efficient manner of
spliced joints in shafts or handles such as occur in jointing the head to the shaft of
a golf club or a bat or a racquet to the handle; and it consists in locking together
the spliced parts by means of one or more balls or pellets suuk partly into the
face of each part of the joint, and in forming longitudinal corrugations on the
faces of the joint. The balls serve the purpose of a dowel pin or pins and
prevent the drawing apart of the head and shaft after they are bound together
whilst avoiding the weakening of the shaft that would result from the use of dowel
pins passed transversely through the shaft, and the longitudinal corrugations
prevent side-wise movement of one spliced part upon the other.
The spliced joint may be bound together by cord or wire in the usual way but I
bind it by preference by means of a metallic ring ferrule or ferrules slipped over
the joint so as to tightly grip the spliced part with the locking balls in place.
Dated this 19th day of October 1894.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applican
Improvements in Securing Spliced Joints in Shafts or Handles of
Golf Clubs, Racquets, Bats, and the like.
I, LEWIS HENRY SMITH of Kilbowie, Dunbartonshire, Sewing Machine.
Expert, 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 has for its object the securing in a simple and efficient manner of
spliced joints in shafts of handles such as occur in jointing the head to the shaft of
a golf club or a bat or a racquet to the handle, and it consists in locking together
the spliced parts by means of one or more balls or pellets sunk partly into the face
of each part of the joint, and in forming longitudinal corrugations on the faces of
the joint.
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention Figure 1 is a
longitudinal section of part of the shaft and head of a golf club showing the
The spliced
improved spliced joint and Figure 2 is a cross section of the same.
ends of the shaft A and the head B are each recessed to receive a ball C, or two
or more balls, and they are also each formed with longitudinal corrugations D
as indicated particularly at Figure 2. The ball C serves the purpose of a dowel.

page_text: pin and prevents the drawing apart of the head and shaft after they are bound
together whilst avoiding the weakening of the shaft that would result from the use
of dowel pins passed transversely through the shaft, and the longitudinal corru-
gations D prevent sidewise movement of one spliced part upon the other.
The spliced joint may be bound together by cord or wire in the usual way.
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. As means for securing spliced joints in shafts or handles of golf clubs,
racquets, bats and the like the provision of one or more balls for locking together
the spliced parts and of longitudinal grooves or corrugations on the faces of
the spliced parts for preventing sidewise movement substantially as described.
2. As means for securing spliced joints in shafts or handles of golf clubs,
racquets, bats and the like the provision of one or more balls or pellets sunk
into the faces of the spliced parts and serving to lock them together substantially
as described.
3. As means for securing spliced joints in shafts or handles of golf clubs,
racquets, bats and the like the provision of longitudinal grooves or corrugations
on the faces of the spliced parts for preventing sidewise movement of the parts
substantially as described.
Dated the 20th da
1.1 100
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.