Improvements in Hand Grasps for Golf Clubs, Tennis Racquets, Cricket and other Bats, Fishing Rods, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hand Grasps for Golf Clubs, Tennis Racquets,
Cricket and other Bats, Fishing Rods, and the like.
1, WILLIAM CURRIE, India Rubber Manufacturer, Dalry Road, Edinburgh, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is a further development of the invention for which Letters Patent
bearing date the 10th day of July 1890 No. 10,701 were granted to William
Currie junior and it has for its object to enable the hand grasp described and
claimed in the Specification under the said Patent to be more easily fitted on to
the shank or handle of the club, bat, racquet or the like.
To that end the tube after it has been manufactured as described in the said
Specification has a longitudinal slit or cut made in it at both ends, the said slit
extending inwards for a short distance only. From the inner end of one slit to that
of the other the tube is cut spirally with any desired number of convolutions which
enables it to be placed more easily in position and it is then bound at both ends by
wires or cords.
Dated this 1st day of September 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hand Grasps for Golf Clubs, Tennis Racquets,
Cricket and other Bats, Fishing Rods, and the like.
I, WILLIAM CURRIE, India Rubber Manufacturer, Dalry Road, Edinburgh,
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 is a further development of the invention for which Letters Patent
bearing date the 10th day of July 1890 No. 10701 were granted to William
Currie, junior, and it has for its object to enable the hand grasp described and
claimed in the Specification under the said Patent to be more easily fitted on to the
shank or handle of the club, bat, racquet or the like.
As illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 shews the
improved hand grasp before being applied to the club and Figure 2 the grasp in
position thereon the tube A after it has been manufactured as described in the said
Specification may have a longitudinal slit or cut made in it at both ends, the said
slit extending inwards for a short distance only; and from the inner end of one
slit to that of the other the tube is cut spirally, or as shewn the tube may be cut
spirally throughout its whole length with any desired number of convolutions B
which enables it to be placed more easily in position and it is then bound at both
ends by wires or cords C.

page_text: 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―
A hand grasp for a golf club, racquet, bat, fishing rod or the like composed of a
tube of rubber or like material slit spirally throughout its length, substantially as
described.
Dated this 14th day of May 1894
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.