Improved Safety Holes for Golf and other Games.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Safety Holes for Golf and other Games.
JAMES GRANT, The Hollies, Stafford, Private Secretary. I do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The usual holes for golf and other games are merely holes cut in the ground into
which are inserted ordinary stove-piping rims to keep the sides from falling in.
I propose using improved safety holes consisting of circular pieces of weather-
proof material (such as zinc, earthenware, corrugated iron or the like) for the
sides of the holes called the "rims" and in combination loose "pots" made of
zinc, earthenware corrugated iron or the like material, fitting into them. The
pots" have moveable handles or rings and loose perforated bottoms.
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The " pots are filled with the soil and grass taken out when making the holes
(into which the outside circular rims are placed to support the sides) thus allowing
the grass to remain alive and grow. When the holes are not in use the "pots
containing the soil etc. are placed in the holes inside the "rims" thus concealing
the existence of any holes and preventing the possibility of accidents and allowing
the ground in which they are, to be used for other games or purposes, or rolled,
or the grass cut without injury.
When the holes are in use the "pots" containing the soil etc. are taken out
(leaving the "rims" in the holes to support the sides) by the handles or rings and
put aside to be replaced when play is over.
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When it is desired to move the holes the soil and grass planted and growing in
the "pots
can be pushed out without effort or injury by pushing up the loose
perforated bottoms, the rims are removed and the soil and grass so taken out of
pots are replaced alive and uninjured in the abandoned holes.
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Dated this 1st do of July 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Safety Holes for Golf and other Games.
JAMES GRANT of The Hollies, Stafford, trading as Grant & Co., Stafford,
Agent for all Golf Requisites, 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 holes for golf and other games. The usual holes for
golf and other games are merely holes cut in the ground into which are inserted
stove-piping rims to keep the sides from falling in.
I propose using in combination an improved safety hole consisting of a circular
piece of weather-proof material (such as enamelled iron or ware or the like) for
the sides of the holes, called the "rims" and a loose "pot" made of enamelled
iron or ware or the like material fitting into it. The "pot" has a moveable handle
which will lie flat or raise as desired and a loose perforated bottom.
The "pot" is filled with the soil and grass taken out when making the hole
(into which the outside circular "rim" is placed to support the sides) thus allowing
the grass to remain alive and grow.
When the hole is not in use the "pot" containing the soil etc. is placed in the
hole inside the "rim" thus concealing the existence of any hole and preventing

page_text: the possibility of accidents, and allowing the ground in which it is, to be used for
other games or purposes, or rolled, or the grass cut without injury.
When the hole is in use, the "pot" containing the soil etc. is taken out (leaving
the "rim "in the hole to support the sides) by the handle and put aside to be
replaced when play is over.
When it is desired to move the hole, the soil and grass planted and growing in
the pot can be pushed out without effort or injury by pushing up the loose perforated
bottom. The "rim" is removed and the soil and grass so taken out of the pot are
replaced alive and uninjured in the abandoned hole.
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 :-
1. The application of weather proof materials such as enamelled iron, enamelled
ware, or the like to all contrivances for use in golf or like holes.
2. A contrivance for use in holes for golf and like games constructed of weather
proof materials such as enamelled iron, enamelled ware, or the like, or some or one
of them.
3. A contrivance for use in holes for golf and like games constructed of weather
proof materials such enamelled iron, enamelled ware, or the like consisting of an
outside rim used for the support of the ground in which the hole is made.
4. A contrivance for use in holes for golf and like games constructed of weather
proof materials, such as enamelled iron, enamelled ware, or the like consisting of a
pot or vessel having a perforated and moveable bottom and a moveable handle and
made so as to fit a rim placed in a golf or like hole.
5. A contrivance constructed of weather proof materials such as enamelled iron,
enamelled ware, or the like, or some or one of them, consisting of an outside rim
and a loose pot fitting into such rim constructed with a moveable perforated bottom
and moveable handle for use either separately or together in golf and like games:
Dated this Second day of April 1894.
JAMES GRANT.