Improved Carrier and Stand for Golf Clubs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Carrier and Stand for Golf Clubs.
I, JOHN CUMMING MACDONA, M.P., of 1 Garden Court, Temple, London, E.C.
and Hilbre House, West Kirby, Cheshire, Barrister-at-Law, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:—
This invention relates to a light and handy golf club carrier designed to dispense
with the services of a "caddie" if desired. It is composed of a framework of
light iron, all in one piece, from a circular iron mouth of the bag covered with
leather or some other material running down along the inside of the canvas or
leather composing the bag. About one inch below the mouth of the bag the
covering is cut out in the shape of a sword hilt so as to freely admit the hand, the
exposed iron being covered with leather or india rubber etcetera. The iron shaft at
the bottom, in the form of a flattened blunt dagger, enters the ground about three
inches above the point; the iron from the shaft projects from outside post enough
to form a small foot-step, and on the opposite side projects underneath a piece of
round wood forming the bottom of the bag and supports it as it stands on the
ground upright by itself.
Dated this 15th day of December 1893.
Improved Carrier and Stand for Golf Clubs.
I, JOHN CUMMING MACDONA, M.P., of 1 Garden Court, Temple, London, E.C.
and Hilbre House, West Kirby, Cheshire, 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,
that is to say :-
The object of this invention is to provide a light and handy golf carrier the use
of which will, if desired, enable the player to dispense with the services of the
"caddie" or person usually employed to carry the clubs for the player while the
game of golf is being played. The golf club carrier and stand constructed in
accordance with my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which
Figures 1 and 2 are elevations taken at right angles to one another, Figure 3 a
plan, and Figure 4 an underside view.
A is a light framework of iron or other suitable metal or material so constructed
as to form a ring A' at the top to receive the canvas or other material B
and to form the mouth of the carrier. The lower end of the frame is formed
with two cross palms or projections A² A* and a spike A. The palm or
projection A is to enable the person using the carrier to apply pressure with
his foot for the purpose of driving the spike A' into the ground and thus retain
the carrier in a vertical position when he requires to select a club or for
other reasons does not desire to have the carrier in his hand. The palm or
projection A³ serves to hold and support the bottom C of the carrier which bottom
may be of oak or other suitable material and secured to the palm or projection A*
by screws, rivets or otherwise. For the covering B I prefer to use what is known
as "Willesden Cloth" or "Anti-rot" light green canvas which is impervious to

page_text: the action of insects such as ants and the like in hot climates; but other suitable
material may be employed if desired. It is fixed at the upper end to the ring A' as
shown and to the edge of the bottom C as shown and preferably encloses the
straight part A of the frame, a portion being cut away, exposing a part of the
frame A as shown at B' which portion is covered or bound with leather or
otherwise suitably clothed so as to form a handle by which the carrier may be
conveniently carried. Or if preferred it may be carried across the shoulder, the
spike A', with or without a leather covering, being held in the hand.
The proportions of the various parts may be varied and the frame A may be of
any desired or convenient section of material, preferably in one piece, but in order
to reduce the weight, parts may, in some cases, be made of tubing.
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 :-
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The improved carrier and stand for golf clubs comprising the frame A, A',
A', A', A, the covering B, and the bottom C combined and arranged substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this tu
J. C. MACDONA,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.
J. C. MACDONA,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.