An Improvement in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Golf Clubs.
1, THOMAS YEOMAN of 25, Brightland Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, Golf Club
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to golf-clubs and it has for its object to make the
instrument a better driver than those now in use.
The heads of certain of these instruments have heretofore been usually made
entirely of wood and those of certain other of the instruments entirely of metal,
these instruments being respectively adapted for particular kinds of stroke.
My invention consists in making the head and the neck portion where it is
joined to the shaft or handle of metal, preferably aluminium, with a wooden striking
face, the latter consisting of a plate of hard wood with dovetailed edges received in
a recess of corresponding shape in the face of the head and secured by screws.
This wooden striking face and the recess in which it is received do not extend quite
to the lower face of the club-head so as to be protected from injury by striking the
ground.
Dated this 1st day of Fahru 1001
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Golf Clubs.
I, THOMAS YEOMAN, of 25, Brightland Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, Golf Club
Maker, 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 :-
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This invention relates to golf-clubs of the kind technically known as the
driver," and the "brassey ;" and it has for its object to adapt the same instrument
for use in making strokes for which the two separate instruments above-named
are generally employed, and to impart greater driving power to the club than is
possessed by the "brassey" now in use. The head of the "driver has hereto-
fore been usually made entirely of wood weighted with lead and that of the
'brassey" is usually made of wood faced with a brass plate on the lower face
which comes next the ground, whilst the heads of certain other of the instruments
are made entirely of metal, all these instruments being respectively adapted for
particular kinds of stroke.
My invention consists in making the head and the neck portion by which the
head of the club is joined to the shaft or handle, of metal preferably aluminium,
with a wooden striking face, the latter consisting of a plate of hard wood received
in a recess in the face of the head. This wooden striking face extends towards
the lower face of the club head only so far as is necessary to ensure the ball
being struck by the wooden striking face of the club-head leaving the lower face
of the club-head entirely of metal which protects the wooden striking face from
striking the ground.

page_text: The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation of the head of my combined
"driver" and "brassey." Figure 2 is a plan view of the same, and Figure 3 a
cross-section on line 1-1 Figure 1.
The head a is cast or otherwise made of solid metal and in one with a tubular
neck portion b in which the shaft or handle c is inserted and secured by a cross-
pin d or otherwise. In the striking face of the head a a recess is formed having
dovetailed or undercut sides, the sides being preferably inclined towards one
another in the downward direction, as shewn. In this recess is fitted the wooden
striking face e, preferably of beechwood. This striking face corresponds exactly
, in shape to the recess in which it fits, being of dovetailed form so a to engage with
the undercut sides of the recess, in which it is secured by screws passing up
through the lower face of the club-head and drawing the wooden plate tightly down
like a wedge between the inclined sides.
In order to ensure the firm connection necessary for obtaining the full effect of
the blow on the ball, the wooden striking face e is bedded in its recess by means of
elastic glue or cement which renders the striking face so to speak integral with the
metallic head and prevents it becoming loose in its recess under repeated blows.
It will be understood that the wooden striking face instead of being wedge-shaped
in the vertical direction might be of equal width, the dovetailed sides of the recess
being in that case parallel instead of being inclined in the downward direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. A golf club whereof the head is of solid metal in combination with a wooden
striking face, substantially as specified.
2. A golf club whereof the head is of solid metal in combination with a striking
face of hard wood dovetailed into the metal head, as described.
3. A golf club whereof the head and the neck portion thereof are of solid metal
in combination with a plate of hard wood secured in a dovetailed recess in the
striking face of the club head, substantially as specified.
Dated this 12th day of March 1894
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
COMAN,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
Τ. ΥΕΟΜΑΝ,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.