Improvements in Apparatus for Painting Golf-balls and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Painting Golf-balls and the like.
I, HARRY ARNOLD ARMITAGE, of Hethfelton, Wareham, in the County of
Dorset, Captain late of the 15th Hussars, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
After being used a short time, golf and other balls become too dirty to be of
further use, as they cannot then be readily distinguished from the ground at a
short distance. In order that they may be used again and again it is necessary
that they should be cleaned and re-painted.
Now the object of this invention is to provide means whereby balls and other
spherical bodies may be held securely while the whole surface of the ball is
painted without removing the paint already put on, and without soiling the hands
of the operator.
In carrying this invention into practical effect I provide a board or other flat
support, the upper face of which has a number of equidistant points projecting from
it. One way of forming this support is to drive a number of sharp nails through
from the other side of the board.
On the ball to be painted being placed in this support, it rests upon four of the
points which are the only points of contact. The operator with a bradawl or other
pointed instrument in one hand holds the ball still upon the support while with the
other hand he applies the paint by means of a brush.
The ball may be turned about to present different parts of its surface to the
brush, by means of the bradawl or other instrument. The points projecting from
the support, having little or no area, remove no perceptible amount of paint from
the ball. After being painted the ball may be left upon the support to dry.
Dated this 17th day of December 1891.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Painting Golf-balls and the like.
I, HARRY ARNOLD ARMITAGE, late of Hethfelton, Wareham, in the County
of Dorset, but now of Turnworth, Blandford, also in the County of Dorset, Captain
late of the 15th Hussars, 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 :-
After being used a short time, golf and other balls become too dirty to be of
further use, as they cannot then be readily distinguished from the ground at a short
distance. In order that they may be used again and again it is necessary that they
should be cleaned and re-painted.
Now the object of this invention is to provide means whereby balls and other
spherical bodies may be held securely while the whole surface of the ball is painted
without removing the paint already put on, and without soiling the hands of the
operator.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accom-
panying sheet of drawings illustrative of my said invention.

page_text: In carrying this invention into practical effect I provide a board or other flat
support a, the upper face of which has a number of equidistant points projecting
from it. One way of forming this support is to drive a number of sharp nails
through from the other side of the board. On the ball to be painted being placed
in this support, it rests upon four of the points which are the only points of contact.
The operator with a bradawl or other pointed instrument c in one hand holds the
ball d still upon the support while with the other hand he applies the paint by
means of a brush e. The ball may be turned about to present different parts of its
surface to the brush by means of the bradawl or other instrument.
The points
projecting from the support, having little or no area, remove no perceptible amount
of paint from the ball. After being painted the ball may be left upon the support
to dry.
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
An apparatus for painting golf balls and the like consisting of a flat surface
having a number of points projecting from its face substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of September 1009
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.