An Improved Appliance for use in Painting Golf Balls.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for use in Painting Golf Balls.
I, JAMES BEAKE HAMMOND, of Clifton Hill Cottage, Clifton, in the City and
County of Bristol, Butler, 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 consists in an improved appliance for use in painting golf balls
which, as is well understood, require to be re-painted with white paint at intervals
to render them readily visible by players.
According to this invention the balls requiring re-painting are mounted on pointed
supports on which the balls are capable of being rotated and by which they are
kept out of contact with any other surface. There are two supports for each ball,
one support being preferably fixed and the other adjustable towards and from the
ball. But both supports may be adjustable if desired.
When the ball has been mounted on its supports it is free to rotate. The paint
is then applied by a brush and the ball is turned at will as the operation of painting
proceeds.
A convenient form which the appliance may take is that of a box in the sides of
which the supports for the balls are situated and arranged at a suitable distance
from the bottom and the lid.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a plan and Fig. 2 a transverse
section of a convenient form which the appliance in which this invention consists
may take, that is a box form for holding more than one ball which are contained
therein when being painted and are allowed to dry therein. The balls a are
supported at directly opposite points upon spikes or holders b, & extended through
the sides of the box c. In the example illustrated in the drawing one set b only of
the holding spikes is adjustable, the spikes 6' being fixed, but it is to be understood
that both sets of holding spikes may be made adjustable. The bar d secured to the
front of the box serves as a nut for the adjustable spikes b.
When the balls require re-painting they are held between the spikes band 6' and
the former are screwed up to the balls. The points of the spikes slightly penetrate
the balls and the latter are thus supported and are free to rotate clear of any other
surface. They are then ready for repainting, an operation which is, according to
this invention, effected without soiling the fingers and without contact of the balls
with any other surface than that of the spikes and the brush used in painting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it under-
stood that I do not bind myself to the box-like form of the appliance hereinbefore
described, but what I claim is :-
An improved method of and means for supporting golf balls for repainting,
namely, by suspending them at directly opposite points on spikes supported in any
suitable frame, on which spikes the balls are capable of being rotated free from
contact with any surface except the said spikes, substantially as hereinabove
described.
Dated this 26th day of Janua- 1900
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.