Improvements in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan., 1895
Improvements in Golf Clubs.
We, THE ARMY AND NAVY CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED, of 105
Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, Manufacturers, and OLIVER
SCHOFIELD RUDDOCK, of 51 Chelsham Road, Clapham, Surrey, Manager of
Factory, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to golf clubs and has for its object to provide improved
means for securing a wearing or striking face or block to the heads of such
clubs.
It has been customary to provide that part of the head of a club which comes in
contact with the golf ball at the moment of striking with a wearing face of hard
wood, vulcanized fibre or the like. Such a wearing face is generally secured to the
remaining portion of the club by screws or the like screwed through the face or
block from the striking surface into the body of the head. This method of securing
the face is however objectionable for many reasons the principal being that the
heads of the screws being of different material to the remaining portion of the
face do not wear at the same rate and in time project from the said face.
According to our invention we provide for securing a wearing face or block to
the head of a club by devices which do not appear on the outer surface of such
face thereby adding to the appearance of the club and obviating other inconveniences
such as that hereinbefore mentioned.
In one method of carrying our invention into practice we secure to the surface
of the head to which the wearing face or block is to be attached a metal plate of
suitable thickness. Said metal plate may be secured by screws or other suitable
means and has provided in it one two or more apertures or slots of a shape similar
to that of a keyhole that is to say said apertures are circular at the top or bottom
but are formed into a comparatively narrow slot at the bottom or top. At the
back of the plate recesses are formed in the head in positions corresponding to the
slots in the plate said recesses being larger than the slots. The back of the wearing
face or block is provided with as many projecting pins as there are apertures in
the plate the heads of which are equal or smaller than the wide parts of the
apertures in the plate above mentioned, while the shanks thereof are smaller and
approximately equal to the width of the narrow part of said apertures. Said pin
or pius are so placed that when the block is applied to the head of the club, the
heads of the pins can pass through the holes in the plate secured thereto into the
recesses at the back. The block is then displaced relatively to the head so that
the heads of the pins pass behind the narrow parts of the apertures thereby
securing the block to the club.
One very convenient method of forming the pins is to screw round or cheese
headed screws a suitable distance into the back of the block.
In another method of carrying out our invention we attach a bolt to the back of
the block by any suitable means. Said bolt projects through a hole in the head
and is provided with a nut which is screwed thereon at the back of the head. Said
but may be arranged to be countersunk and screwed into recesses by a notched
screw driver if desired. Two or more bolts may be used if desired.
A suitable manner of securing the bolt or bolts to the block is to perforate the
end of the bolt by a transverse bole the bolt is then screwed partly into the block
and a pin being passed through both bolt and block holds the bolt very..firmly it

page_text: place. Other methods of securing the bolt or bolts to the block may be
employed.
Iron clubs can also be faced in the same manner if desired.
Dated this 8th day of March 1894.
HASELTINE; LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in GoII Clubs.
We, THE ARMY AND NAVY CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED, of 105
Victoria Street, in the City of Westminster, Manufacturers and OLIVER
SCHOFIELD RUDDOCK, of 51 Chelsham Road, Clapham, Surrey, Manager of
Factory, 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 :-
It has been customary to provide the heads of golf clubs with wearing faces or
blocks of hard wood, vulcanized fibre or the like. Such wearing faces have
heretofore been generally secured to the heads by screws or the like screwed
through the blocks from the striking surfaces thereof into the body of the heads.
This method of securing the blocks is objectionable for many reasons the principal
being that the heads of the screws do not wear at the same rate as the blocks and
in time project from the faces thereof.
Our invention has for its object to provide improved means for securing the
wearing or striking face or block to the head.
According to our invention we provide for securing a wearing block to the head
of a club by devices which do not extend to the striking face of such block,
thereby improving the appearance of the club and obviating inconveniences such
as that hereinbefore mentioned.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood we will now describe the
same with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figures 1 and 2 are plans partly sectional showing the head of a golf club
having a wearing block attached thereto according to our invention.
Figure 3 is a similar view showing a modification of our invention.
Figure 4 is a side elevation of a further modification.
Figure 5 is a view of the other side of the block shown in Figure 4 and
Figures 6 and 7 are detail views hereinafter described.
Like letters denote similar parts throughout the drawing.
A 'is the head of the golf club and B is the wearing block.
Referring now to Figure 1 we show a method of carrying out our invention, in
which we attach the wearing block B to the club by means of a bolt C which is
secured to the back or inner face of the block by any suitable means. The said
bolt C projects through a hole in the head A and is provided with a nut C which
is screwed on the bolt from the back of the head. A recess A¹ is preferably
provided in the back of the head for receiving the nut as shewn. We usually
provide two guide or steady pins D D which engage with suitable recesses provided
in the block B thereby preventing any displacement of the wearing block B on the
head A of the club. The said pins may be conveniently formed by screwing
short studs into the face of the head.
We sometimes provide two bolts for securing the block B to the head of the
club as shown in Figure 2 in which case the guide or steady pins D D described
with reference to Figure 1 are dispensed with.
We may use more than two bolts but we usually find that two are sufficient.
A suitable manner of securing the bolt or bolts to the block B is as follows, that

page_text: is to say, the end of the bolt which is perforated by a transverse hole as shown
at C Figure 6 is passed into a shallow recess B¹ Figures 1 and 2 provided on the
rear face of the block B to receive the same; and a pin E is passed through both
bolt and block. The bolt is in this manner very securely held in place.
Other methods of securing the bolts into the block may be employed, for
example the bolt may be screwed a short distance into the block and then secured
by pinning.
In Figure 3 a modification of our invention is shown. F is a bridge piece the
ends of which are received in the rear face of the block and are secured therein by
pins G G.
.
That portion of the bridge piece F which projects from the block B is received
into aud fits in a groove or recess provided in the head as shown, and thereby acts
as a guide or steady piece for the said block. A bolt C³ which passes through
the head of the club is provided on one end thereof with a square sided hook C+
which engages with the said piece F so as to prevent the displacement of the block
when it is secured in position. This is clearly shewn in Figure 7 which is an end
view of the block and bolt.
Referring now to Figures 4 and 5 which shew a further modification of our
invention, H is a metal plate of suitable thickness secured by screws or other
suitable means to the surface of the head A to which the wearing block is to be
attached. The said plate has provided in it two key-hole shaped apertures or
slots H2 H the slots being circular at the bottom parts H3 H³ and comparatively
narrow at the upper parts H H. At the back of the plate recesses are formed in
the head A in positions corresponding to the slots in the plate, the said recesses
being larger than the slots in the plate H.
The back of the wearing block B is provided with two projecting pins B2, B¹
the heads B3, B³ of which are approximately equal to or smaller than the circular
parts H³ H³ of the apertures in the plate H, while the shanks thereof are
smaller and approximately equal to the width of the narrow parts H, H* of the
said apertures.
The pins B2 B2 are so placed that when the block B is applied to the head A of
the club the heads B3 B3 of the pins can pass through circular parts of the slots
in the plate H into the recesses at the back thereof. The block B is then displaced
relatively to the head A of the club so that the heads of the pins pass behind the
narrow parts H* H* of the slots thereby securing the block B to the club.
A convenient method of forming the pins is to screw round or cheese-headed
screws a suitable distance into the back of the block B, as shown in Figures 4
and 5.
The slots H2 H2 instead of being enlarged at the lower parts thereof as above
described and as shown in Figures 4 and 5 may be inverted, that is to say, the
enlarged portion may be at the top and the narrow portion at the bottom. The
position of the pins B2 B2 must then be altered to correspond, the said pins being,
placed nearer to the lower part of the block.
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 :-
1. A golf club having a wearing block secured thereto in such a manner that
the bolts, screws, pins or the like for securing said block do not project through
the same to the striking face thereof, for the purposes specified.
2. A head for a golf club having a wearing block secured thereto substantially
as described with reference to any of the forms shown in the accompanying
drawings.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.