An Improvement in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June,
An Improvement in Golf Clubs.
I, THOMAS HUTCHESON BONTHRON BLACK, of 10 Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow
in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Insurance Secretary, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention which relates to an improvement in golf clubs consists as
follows:-
or
:-
Hitherto the clubs have been used with handles or handpieces of a round form
shape, which when the player, using and playing the club, and in raising the same
from the ball and other places, upwards, and again returning the club to the ball, it
frequently moved or turned in the left or upper hand and consequently the club did
not strike the ball fairly or true at the point where it would have done had the club
remained firm and stationary in the position desired in the hand when it left the ball
or the ground.
To obviate the moving or turning of the club when being played to strike the
ball, I propose using a handle or hand piece with upper portion of same made oval
form or shape which I find when placed in the hand and gripped by the same, fits
into the hand exactly in every way, filling up all vacant space and so materially
preventing the club from moving or turning in the left or upper hand when the
player is playing the club to strike the ball.
Dated this 25th day of August 1890.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Golf Clubs.
1, THOMAS HUTCHESON BONTHRON BLACK of 10 Lansdowne Crescent, Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Insurance Secretary, 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:-
My invention which relates to an improvement in golf clubs consists as
follows:-
Hitherto the clubs have been used with handles or hand pieces of a round form
or shape, so that it frequently happened that when the player was using the club, it
moved or turned in the left or upper hand and consequently the club did not strike
the ball fairly or true.
To obviate the moving or turning of the club when being played to strike the
ball, I use a handle or hand piece with the upper portion of the same made of oval
or like form or shape which I find when placed in the hand and gripped by the same,
fits into the hand exactly in every way and so materially preventing the club from
moving or turning in the left or upper hand when the player is playing the club to
strike the ball.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Figure 2 a cross section on a larger scale on
line 1, 2 of Figure 1 of my improved handle or hand piece which in the example as
illustrated has its upper portion made of an oval or like form or shape by two strips
of felt or other material a, as shown more particularly in Figure 2, which are
cemented or otherwise attached to opposite sides of the ordinary cloth or felt covering
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page_text: or winding b, and over all is the ordinary outer covering or winding of chamois
leather or other material c.
I do not limit myself to the precise method hereinbefore described and illustrated,
of making the upper portion of the club of an oval or like shape as the same may be
varied in many ways; for example the wood of the handle may be planed to the
required oval or like shape and' in such a case the side strips such as a as shewn in
the drawings may be dispensed with..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Forming the upper portion of the handles or hand pieces of golf clubs of an oval
or like shape or form, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described
and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of May 1891.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.