Improvements in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Dale of Application, 20th Dec., 1894.
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Complète Specification Left, 25th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
ARCHIVAL DELICATION.
Improvements in Golf Clubs.
EDWARD ALEXANDER SINCLAIR MACMUNN The Villa Dromore Warren Point
Co. Down Ireland, Barrister at Law do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of golf clubs, and
consists in forming a golf club, having a permanent metal head to which temporary
club heads or faces can be readily and firmly attached in turn, so as to form
respectively, a lifting iron driving iron cleek mashie putter and the like. These
club heads or faces may be made of steel, iron, brass, bone, horn,. vulcanite,
aluminum, wood, leather, or any other suitable material, and are so shaped, that
when fixed to the permanent head, the striking face, will be at the same relative
angle and represent, the same form as in the ordinary club of the kind required for
the particular stroke.
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By my invention a player may carry a single club fitted with, a permanent head
as above, and any convenient number of different club heads or faces as above, each
of which may be fitted to the permanent head and played with in its turn, as
required.
Dated this 11th day of December 1804
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I, EDWARD ALEXANDER SINCLAIR MACMUNN of The Villa, Dromore,
Warren Point, Co. Down, Ireland, Barrister-at-Law, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
desoribed and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
may
have
This invention has for its object so to construct a golf-club that it
temporarily attached to its permanent metal head various facing blocks for
enabling the same club to serve as a lifting iron, driving iron, cleek, mashie, putter
or other device.
On the accompanying drawings I have illustrated as an example one manner of
carrying my invention into practice.
In these drawings
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a golf-club constructed according to this
invention, the head being arranged in this figure as a lifting iron.
Figure 2 is a view showing the slide withdrawn from the head preparatory to
the latter receiving a face for converting it from a lifting-iron into a putter, cleek
or other form of club.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of one of the interchangeable faces.
Figures 4, 5 and
respectively, and
show the club in its putter, cleek and driving iron form
Figure 7 is a face view of the club in either of these forms.
The various views are drawn to different enclos

page_text: Like 'letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A is the stick or handle which may be of ordinary form and construction and B the
head permanently secured to A in any convenient manner. The face of the head B
is formed with a preferably dovetailed or undercut groove B' adapted to receive
either the slide or bar C when the club is to be used as a lifting iron (under which 5
arrangement the face of the bar C is flush with the face of the head B) or the
dovetail rib D on the back of one or other of the interchangeable facing-
blocks D D D³.
Any convenient arrangement of detent may be provided for securing the bar C
or facing blocks D' D'D' in engagement with the groove B', for example as shown 1
in Figure 2, I may rivet or otherwise.secure a spring catch F.to the head B at the
bottom of the groove B' and form a shoulder 'C' on the bar C and each rib D so
that the shoulder F1 of the spring catch F will engage with C' whenever the bar C
or one of the ribs D is in proper operative position therein. The end of the spring
catch F projects beyond the end of the head B so as to admit of its being pressed
up for releasing the shoulders F' and C' from one another. The bar C and each
of the interchangeable club-faces D' D' D' may be formed with a depression D
for admitting of the thumb nail being applied for facilitating the removal of CD)'
D' or D' from the head B.
The interchangeable club faces may be made of metal, horn, vulcanite, wood,
leather or other material and they may be of any desired shape so that when fixed
to the permanent bead B, the striking face will be at the same relative angle as the
face of a club of ordinary construction required for any particular stroke.
A player provided with a single club and a number of interchangeable club-faces
constructed according to my invention may play all the strokes for which it has
hitherto been necessary to carry a number of different clubs.
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. The combination with a golf-club of a detachable facing block.
2. A golf-club having interchangeable striking faces..
3. Changing the character of a golf-club by the application of interchangeable
striking faces of different forms or weights.
4. The combination with a golf-club and a detachable facing-block of a spring
detent for securing the block.
5. The combination with a golf-club having a detachable facing-block and a
groove for holding the block of a slide such as C to fill the groove when the facing-
block is not used substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in.
the accompanying drawings.
6. In a golf-club the combination of the grooved head slide interchangeable
facing-blocks and detent substantially as described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1895.
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