Improvements in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Golf Clubs.
1, GEORGE YOUNG of 8 Balfour Cottages, Leith in the County of Mid-Lothian,
North Britain, Wood Turner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in golf clubs, more particularly to driver
and putters.
In accordance with my invention I make the head of metal, preferably gun metal.
The said head is made hollow and contains a block of wood, preferably the same
wood as is used in the making of ordinary wooden drivers. The weight is not
materially affected because the metal portion is simply a shell to contain the wood
block. The driving face of the club is the face of the said inserted block of wood.
The advantage is that as the driving face gets worn the club can be made the same
as new by simply inserting a new block of wood.
Instead of the shafts being spliced as heretofore my said metal head is formed
with a metal socket such as is used for an ordinary "iron club" the end shafts
being tapered and inserted in the said metal socket and retained by means of one,
two or more brass pins passed through the socket and shaft. The striking face
edge of the bottom of the club may have a strip of horn or the like inserted so as
to prevent the metal coming into actual contact with the ball.
1000
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
I, GEORGE YOUNG of 8, Balfour Cottages, Leith, in the County of Mid-Lothian,
North Britain, Wood Turner, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in golf clubs, more particularly to drivers
and putters.
In accordance with my invention I make the head of metal, preferably gun metal.
The said head is made hollow and contains a block of wood, preferably the same
wood as is used in the making of ordinary wooden drivers. The weight is not
materially affected because the metal portion is simply a shell to contain the wood
block. The driving face of the club is the face of the said inserted block of wood.
The advantage is that as the driving face gets worn the club can be made the same
as new by simply inserting a new block of wood.
Instead of the shafts being spliced as heretofore my said metal head is formed with
a metal socket such as is used for an ordinary "iron club" the end of the shaft being

page_text: tapered and inserted in the said metal socket and retained by means of one, two or
more brass pins passed through the socket and shaft. The striking face edge of the
bottom of the club may have a strip of horn or the like inserted so as to prevent the
metal coming into actual contact with the ball.
The drawings illustrate my invention.
Fig. 1 shewing the club head with the wood block removed therefrom.
Fig. 2 being a perspective view of the head complete.
A is the metal shell into which the block of wood B is inserted. C are holes
in the shell whereby the block can be retained in position by screws c Fig. 2.
D is the metal socket into which the tapered end of the wooden shaft E is inserted
and d is the pin for retaining the same. F is the strip of horn at the bottom edge
of the striking face b.
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 :-
In "drivers" and "putters" of golf clubs, the improved metallic construction of
the heads of such clubs, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described
and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of Bahnnan 1907
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.