Improvements in the Coating of Golf-balls.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Coating of Golf-balls..
FRANCIS EDWARD MATTHEWS, of "The Pines" Englefield Green, Chemist
and FRANK WILLIAM HARBORD of Station Road, Egham in the County of Surrey,
Metallurgist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of our invention is an improvement in the coating of golf-balls.
Instead of coating the balls, as at present, with white paint or enamel, we cover
them with a thin metallic coat and preferably of some white metal or a white alloy
of one or more metals. This metallic coating may be deposited electrolitically or
chemically, the surface of the ball having been previously covered with a
conducting medium or the material of which the ball is composed may have a
metallic substance mixed with it during its process of manufacture or pressed into
its surface or any other suitable method may be employed for preparing the ball
to receive its deposit. In some cases we employ metallic powders in the form of a
paint, the object being to obtain a bright metallic surface on the ball.
F. E. MATTHEWS.
F. W. HARBORD.
Improvements in the Coating of Golf-balls.
We, FRANCIS EDWARD MATTHEWS of The Pines, Englefield Green, Chemist,
and FRANK WILLIAM HARBORD of Station Road, Egham, in the County of
Surrey, Metallurgist, 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 object of our invention is an improvement in the coating of golf balls.
At present it is the custom to coat the balls with white paint or enamel, but
according to our present invention we propose to cover them with a thin metallic
coat of metal or alloy, preferably of a white or whitish color. This coating we
can obtain either by electrolytic or chemical means, the ball being first suitably
prepared with a conducting surface for receiving the metallic deposit either during
or after moulding into shape.
In lieu of depositing the metallic coating on the ball it may be covered by
directly applying to the surface of the ball finely divided metallic powders by a
painting process.
A very advantageous method of coating by employing finely divided metallic
powders suspended in some liquid or semi-liquid medium which is capable of
rapidly drying and leaving an adherent metallic film on the surface of the ball, the
object in either case being to produce a bright metallic surface.
An improved method of so depositing the metal we propose shall form the
subject matter of separate Letters Patent.
We do not confine ourselves to any special metals but prefer to use silver,
aluminium, or tin, or mixtures or alloys of these metals with copper or bronze.
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page_text: 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 :-
A golf ball covered or coated with metal, substantially as described.
Dated the 16th day of February 1894
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicants.