An Appliance for Supporting a Golf Club Bag.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Appliance for Supporting a Golf Club Bag.
I, PERCY DAVID HEDDERWICK, of 10, Heathfield Road, Acton, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to means of supporting a golf club bag so as to hold it in
an approximately upright position, this appliance being so devised that it can be
applied to existing bags and that it does not interfere with the use of the bag for
carrying the clubs from place to place. I provide two legs preferably of wood
which are connected by detachable hinges to the upper part of the bag, preferably
to the ring at its mouth. When the bag is to be transported these legs are dis-
connected and packed inside the bag as if they were clubs. When the bag is to
be placed at rest, the legs are connected to the bag and spread out so that they
form with the bag itself containing a club or clubs, a tripod which stands firmly on
the ground and presents the mouth of the bag in a convenient position. When the
bag is carried from place to place on the links, the legs are not detached but are
allowed to lie or hang freely along the side of the bag.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Appliance for Supporting a Golf Club Bag.
I, PERCY DAVID HEDDERWICK, of 10, Heathfield Road, Acton, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained, in and by the following statement:.
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My invention relates to means of supporting a golf club bag so as to hold it in
an approximately upright position, this appliance being so devised that it can be
applied to existing bags and that it does not interfere with the use of the bag for
carrying the clubs from place to place.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shews a golf bag supported by an appliance
according to my invention, Fig. 2 shews the position of the appliance when the
bag is carried, Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the mouth of the bag and the jointing
of the appliance to it.
I provide two legs A preferably of wood which are connected by detachable
hinges B to the upper part of the bag, preferably to the ring C at its mouth. When

page_text: the bag is to be transported these legs can be disconnected, and packed inside the
bag as if they were clubs. When the bag is to be placed at rest as shewn in Fig. 1
the legs A are connected to the bag and spread out so that they form with the
bag itself containing a club or clubs, a tripod which stands firmly on the ground
and presents the mouth of the bag in a convenient position. When the bag is
carried from place to place on the links, the legs A are not detached but are
allowed to lie or hang freely along the side of the bag as shewn in Fig. 2.
For facility of connecting the legs to the bag and disconnecting them I may
make their hinges as shewn in Fig. 3, I split the upper part of each leg and spread
the two sides on each of which I fix an outwardly projecting stud D. On the ring
or upper part of the bag I fix two pairs of eyes E with which the studs D are en-
gaged to form the hinges for the legs. On grasping the split part of the leg so as
to press its sides together the studs D are withdrawn from the eyes E and the legs
can be removed. The positions of the eyes E are such that when the legs are
hinged on and form a tripod with the bag as shewn in Fig. 1, the mouth of the
bag is held in an open attitude giving ready access to the bag.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
An appliance for supporting a golf club bag consisting of two legs detachably
hinged to the upper part of the bag substantially as described with reference to the
drawings.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.