An Improved Carrier or Stand for Golf Clubs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Carrier or Stand for Golf Clubs.
I, THOMAS MANSFIELD FORBES PARKYNS of 2 King's Bench Walk, Temple,
in the City of London, Barrister at Law do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to provide a light and portable carrier which shall
protect the golf clubs from getting soiled or wet and the handles thereof from
being rubbed and which shall obviate the necessity of stooping to pick the clubs
off the ground.
According to my invention I provide a tripod stand made as follows-
I take a stick curved at the end like a hook handled walking stick, of about the
same length and at the bottom I fix a bag or cup about six or seven inches deep
by about five or six inches in diameter, such cup or bag being made of waterproof
canvass, leather, tin, wood, or any other suitable material.
At the top of the stick I fix, one on either side two flat pieces of suitable wood
or iron about inch wide and about or the length of the stick long.
These two pieces, which I call the legs, I fasten again by a bolt & nut, or some
other suitable fastening, which can be removed at will, to the end of the said curved
hook.
The said legs are kept apart by a light cross piece about 10 inches long made of
wood or bamboo or some other suitable material, with a pin at each end which fit
into two holes, one in each leg about 5 inches from the bottom.
Immediately above where the said legs are fixed on to the stick I pass through
the stick a piece of strong but light iron wire about 15 inches long.
This wire I bend into the form of the capital letter W with the points rounded.
The two brackets thus formed make a support for the clubs, the handles of which
rest in the said bag or cup.
On releasing the fastening at the end of the said curved hook and taking away
the said crosspiece, the two legs fold up alongside of the stick and are kept in place
by passing the said fastening through the two holes in which the cross piece is
placed and through a corresponding hole in the said stick.
The cross piece lies along the stick when not in use, or when travelling, kept in
place by two india rubber rings or by some other convenient method.
I reserve to myself the right of making any alterations additions or modifications
in carrying out the details of this invention before making out a complete
Specification.
Dated this Fourteenth day of June 1893
T. M. F. PARKYNS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Carrier or Stand for Golf Clubs.
I, THOMAS MANSFIELD FORBES PARKYNS of 2 King's Bench Walk, Temple,
in the City of London, Barrister at Law 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved carrier or stand for golf clubs which I
construct as I shall describe, referring to the accompanying drawings-
Fig. I represents the carrier or stand when in use, forming a tripod. In this

page_text: figure B is a stick of about the same length and shape as an ordinary curved
handled walking-stick. At the bottom of B is fastened a receptacle A made of
canvass or other suitable material, the bottom of which is made of leather or other
suitable material. To keep such receptacle in place it is fastened to a ring of metal
or wood K fastened on to B. I is a small rectangular flat piece of metal screwed
on to B for the purpose of keeping A out of wet or dirty ground. C represents
two light, flat iron or wooden legs kept apart by a cross bar of like material F.
The handles of the golf clubs rest in the receptacle A and the shafts in the two
hooks or brackets D.
Fig. 11 shows the carrier or stand when folded up for travelling purposes, the
legs being kept in place on either side of the stick B by a small strap H.
Fig. III illustrates how the upper part of the carrier or stand is constructed.
B represents the upper and curved end of the stick. D represents a stout metal
wire hook or bracket flattened at one end. At La bolt is past through a hole
in the flattened end of D, then through a hole in one of the legs C, then through
the stick B after which it passes through a hole in the second leg C and then
through a second hook or bracket D where it is fixed by a nut. At M a hole'is
bored through B, through which is passed a piece of stout wire E and bent so as
to lie close along the end of B on either side, leaving just sufficient room to enable
the legs C to pass up behind. This wire E gives perfect rigidity to the carrier or
stand.
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In Fig. IV F represents the cross bar for keeping the legs C apart. One end
of F is attached to one of the legs C by a small semicircular piece of wire G,
passing through a hole in F and rivetted to C. The other end of F is formed into
a point or tongue which fits into a corresponding hole in the second leg C. When
the carrier is folded up the cross bar F turning on the ring G will lie close inside
the leg C to which it is attached.
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 :-
An improved carrier or stand for golf clubs, in the nature of a folding up tripod,
as herein before described and represented in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Twelfth day of March 1894.
T. M. F. PARKYNS,
Applicant.