A Golf Club Head.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Golf Club Head.
DAVID GRINDLAY ROBERTSON Number Thirteen Murieston Crescent
Edinburgh Golf Club Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to.
be as follows:-
A golf club head, with or without horn, or brass, on sole, but without lead
at back; also with or without neck or "skear" as in the golf club heads, made of
wood generally in use, and with or without upright or perpendicular leather
face, said golf club head being made of leather, in any style or shape, as in the golf
club heads made of wood presently in use, the leather being in layers, or pieces,
placed in a flat or horizontal position, cemented with glue, or other material,
compressed together so as to make it solid and unbreakable, the shaft being
attached to the club head when the head is made without a neck or "skear" by
boxing through the club head a hole for the shaft in such a position that the
striking surface may be behind as well as in front of the line of the shaft.
.
Dated this Seventh day of June Eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
A Golf Club Head.
DAVID GRINDLAY ROBERTSON of Number Thirteen Murieston Crescent,
Edinburgh, Golf Club Maker, 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 :-
A golf club head, with or without horn, or brass, on sole, but without lead at
back, also with or without neck and "skear," as in the golf club heads made of.
wood generally in use, and with or without upright or perpendicular leather
face, said golf club head being made of leather, in any style or shape as in the golf
club heads made of wood presently in use,-the leather being in layers, or pieces,
placed in a flat or horizontal position, as shown by the dotted lines in the drawings
and cemented together with glue, or other material, and compressed together in a
mould so as to render it solid and unbreakable: That when the golf club head is
made with a neck and "skear as in the golf club heads made of wood presently
in use and as shown in Figures 4, 5, & 6, in the drawings a steel plate may or
may not be inserted in the neck and "skear" so as to strengthen and support the
same; and when the golf club head is made without a neck or "skear" as shown
in Figures 1, 2 and 3 in the drawings the shaft to be attached to the club head by
boxing through the club head a hole for the shaft in such a position that the
striking surface may be behind as well as in front of the line of the shaft.
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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 :-
1. That the golf club head made of leather, with or without horn, or brass, on

page_text: sole, but without lead at back, and with or without neck and "skear" is more
evenly balanced than the golf club head made of wood presently in use.
2. That in the golf club head when made with or without neck and "skear
the spring of the club is brought nearer the club head.
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3. That the golf club heads when made without neck and "skear" as shown in
Figures 1, 2, and 3 the striking surface may be behind as well as in front of the
line of the shaft.
4. That it is unbreakable.
5. That it is made substantially as herein before described with reference to the
drawings annexed.
Dated this Fourth day of December Eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
DAVID G. ROBERTSON.