An Improved Golf Club.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1892-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Golf Club.
WILLIAM COWAN, Wine Merchant, 1 Lindsay Place Leith and JAMES
WATSON JOHNS, Solicitor Court of Session Edinburgh residing at Hermitage Hill
House, Hermitage Hill, Seafield Leith do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
The object of this invention is to improve the attachment of the shaft of the
club to the head. In the ordinary case the scarf or splice is so arranged that the
shaft is scarfed or placed on the under side of the neck or shank; in this case
the shank or neck is cut with a V shaped cut or scarf at right angles to the plane
of the head, the shaft terminates in the form of a long wedge, which is let into
the corresponding V shaped scarf or cut in the shank as aforesaid, and served in
the usual way either with waxed cord or any other suitable material this form of
attachment enables the shaft to vanish in the shank when finished, and the connection
or scarf is as round as any other part of the shaft; it is practically an extension of
the shaft into the head, and is thus symmetrical. In the ordinary case, when the
head and shaft are connected and served or warped, there is an acute shin in the
form of the connection which causes the club to turn in the hand when driving or
using it.
In consequence of this form of attachment of the shaft to the head, the method
of loading the head is necessarily altered. Instead of running the lead or metal
forming the load into a groove on the outside of the club head, a hatch or port is
cut on the outside of the head in the centre to any depth which may be required, so
as to meet a channel or hole drilled through the head from the toe to the heel of
the club, thereby allowing the lead when poured in to enter and occupy the said
channel thereby permanently fixing the lead in the head of the club, without the
use of nails or pegs.
Dated this Third day of October 1891.
WILLIAM COWAN.
J. WATSON JOHNS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Golf Club.
We WILLIAM COWAN Wine Merchant 1 Lindsay Place, Leith and JAMES
WATSON JOHNS L.A., Hermitage Hill House, Restalrig Road Leith 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:-
The object of this invention is to improve the attachment of the shaft of the club
to the head, in the ordinary case the scarf or splice is so arranged that the shaft is
scarfed or placed on the under side of the neck or shank, in this case the shank is
cut with a shaped scarf or cutting into the neck or shank of the club the shaft
terminates in the form of a long wedge which is let into the corresponding V shaped
scarf as aforesaid and served in the usual way either with waxed cord or any other
suitable material this form of attachment enables the shaft to vanish in the shank
when finished, and the connection or scarf is as round as any part of the shaft, it is
practically an extension of the shaft into the head and is thus symmetrical, in the
ordinary case, when connected and served or warped there is an acute shin in the
form of the connection, which causes the club to turn in the hand when driving or
using it.

page_text: In consequence of this form of the. attachment of the shaft to the head the
method of loading the head is necessarily altered. Instead of running the lead or
metal forming the load, into a groove 'on the outside of the club head a hatch or
port is cut on the outside of the head, in the centre to any depth which may be
required so as to meet a channel or hole drilled through the head from the toe to
the heel of the club, thereby allowing the lead when poured in to enter and occupy
the said channel thereby permanently fixing the lead in the head of the club without
the use of nails or pegs.
Figure I is a drawing of the club showing the self locked lead A with the
channel B. B. drilled through the head of the club, the lead being poured in at the
hatch or port A flows into the channel B. B. and on cooling is locked or' fixed and
becomes part of the head.
Figure II is the sole of the club showing the position of the load and the method
by which it is fixed H being the aperture or hatch into which the lead is poured and
flowing both ways through the channel B B and. being cooled is fixed.
Figure 111. This is a front view of the club showing the method by which the
shaft is inserted into the head, through the V shaped cutting or splice.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is .
(I) The splicing of the shaft to the head by a long V shaped cutting instead of
the old fashioned single splice. This cutting or splice may be at right angles to the
plane of the head or in the line of attachment.
(11) The method of loading the head of the club, is accomplished in the following
manner, a hole or hatch is cut in the back of the head having a channel running
from the centre to the toe and heel of the club and into which the lead on being
poured runs and on cooling is self locked and fixed without the use of nails or pegs.
Dated this Second day of July 1892.
WILLIAM COWAN.
J. WATSON JOHNS.