Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1894-Accepted. 22nd Dec., 1894
I, WILLIAM LAIDLAW PURVES, of Hardwicke Cottage, Wimbledon, Doctor
of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
The invention has for its object improvements by which the game of golf may
be played without cutting holes in the course over which the game is played, and
so enabling it to be played, either under cover, or, as is usual, in the open, on
spaces where damage to the surface is objectionable.
This is effected by three methods, viz. by the use of
(1) A hollow open cylinder placed horizontally,
(2) A disc, in which, at any desired part, an aperture is made laid flat, or
(3) A truncated hollow cone open at the ends, placed base downwards, on the
course.
The cylinders may be made of metal, wood, leather, gutta percha, india-
rubber, xylonite, paper, or other suitable material, with an opening at both
ends, or they may be closed at any desired point. They may be of any
convenient length,-usually about ten inches,-equal in diameter throughout, or
unequally so at any part either internally or externally. They may be smooth
externally or internally, or rough, or corrugated, or lined with some material, such
as sand, paper, corrugated paper, india rubber, matting, cloth, hair, or other
material.
The discs may be made of the same materials, and may be smooth, or rough, or
corrugated, or covered in the same manner as the cylinders.
The cones, which may be of any desired height-usually about two inches-and
of any desired gradient, may be smooth, rough, corrugated, or covered with materials
in the same manner as the cylinders.
The openings in the cylinders, discs, or truncated ends of the cones, may be of
any desired shape or diameter, but usually they are of the same diameter as that of
the ordinary golf holes,-viz. about four inches.
Dated this Nineteenth day of February 1894.
Improvements in Golfing Apparatus.
I, WILLIAM LAIDLAW PURVES, Doctor of Medicine, of Hardwicke Cottage,
Wimbledon 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 :-
The invention has for its object improvements by which the game of golf may be
played without cutting holes in the course over which the game is played, and so
allowing of its being played either under cover, or, as is usual, in the open, on spaces
where breaking the surface of the course is objectionable.

page_text: This is effected by three methods, viz. by the use of
(1) A hollow open cylinder placed on its side,
(2) A disc in which at any desired part an aperture is made, laid flat, or
(3) A truncated hollow cone open at the ends, placed base downwards, on the
course over which the game is played.
The cylinders may be made of metal, wood, cork, felt, leather, gutta percha,
india rubber, xylonite, paper, or other suitable material, with an opening at both
ends, or they may be closed at any desired point. They may be of any convenient
length, usually about ten inches,-equal in diameter throughout, or unequally so
at any part, either internally or externally. They may be smooth, or rough, or
corrugated, throughout, or at a point or pints, externally or internally; or lined
throughout, or at a point or points, with some material, such as sandpaper,
corrugated paper, india rubber, matting, cloth, hair, or other material.
The discs may be made of the same materials, and may be smooth, or rough, or
corrugated, or covered in the same manner as the cylinders.
The cones, which may be of any desired height, usually about two inches, and of
any desired gradient, may be made of the same materials, and may be rough or
corrugated, or covered with materials, the same as the cylinders.
The openings in the cylinders, discs, or truncated ends of the cones, may be of
any desired shape, or diameter, but usually they are of the same diameter as that
of the usual golf hole, viz. about four inches.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
• The employment as golf holes of the above described open cylinders, discs, and
truncated cones, without breakage of the course on which the game is played, in
'the manner hereinbefore described.
Dated this 12th day of November 1894.