Improvements in Appliances for Polishing Metal Golf Clubs.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Polishing Metal Golf Clubs.
We, JOHN M'INTOSH MATTHEW, of 129, Market Street, Upholsterer, and DAVID
CABLE MACKIE, of 1, Bell Street, Fancy Draper, both of St. Andrews, in the
County of Fife, Scotland, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in appliances for polishing metal golf
clubs, the object being to manufacture an article which will be neat, efficient
and cheap.
In carrying out our invention we attach to each opposite side of a wooden holder
one or more sheets of emery cloth, such sheets having behind them suitable
elastic packing, such as wool, cotton, leather or linoleum or the like. The sheets
may be folded in at their edges and then glued to the holder or they may be
folded over the edges of such holder and held on by means of tacks.
Although we have said the holder may be of wood yet it may be of any other
suitable material.
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GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41, Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Appliances for Polishing Metal Golf Clubs.
We, JOHN M'INTOSH MATTHEW, of 129, Market Street, Upholsterer, and DAVID
CABLE MACKIE, of 1, Bell Street, Fancy Draper, both of St. Andrews, in the
County of Fife, Scotland, 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 relates to improvements in appliances for polishing metal golf
clubs, the object being to manufacture an article which will be neat, efficient
and cheap.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing or carry-
ing the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, we have here-
unto annended an explanatory sheet of drawings in which the same reference
numerals are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown,
that is to say:-
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page_text: Figure 2, is a cross-section of same.
In carrying out our invention we attach, by means of some adhesive sub-
stance such as glue, to each opposite side of a wooden holder 10, one or more
sheets of emery cloth 11, such sheets having behind them suitable elastic pack-
ing 12, such as wool, cotton, leather or linoleum, and the like. The sheets may
be folded in at their edges and then glued to the holder, or they may be folded
over the edges of such holder and held on by means of tacks. In the drawings
we have shown the emery cloth folded in and glued to the holder, the packing
consisting of cotton wool 12, and cardboard sheets 13. Although we have said
the holder may be of wood, yet it may be of any other suitable material. The
golf clubs are polished by rubbing them with, or on either face of the appliance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
(1) In appliances for polishing metal golf clubs, the construction, arrange-
ment and combination of parts consisting of a holder to which is attached one
or more sheets of emery cloth which have behind them suitable elastic packing,
such as wool, cotton, leather or linoleum and the like, substantially as herein-
before described and shown by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of September 1898.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41, Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicants.