Improvements in the Manufacture of Golf Balls and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd June, 1892-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Golf Balls and the like.
I, GEORGE BOYD THORNTON of 78 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in the County
of Midlothian, North Britain, India Rubber Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of golf balls and the
like and consists in making golf balls of horn compounded with other substances
such as gutta percha, elastic gums, glues, cements or india rubber. The horn may
be reduced to shreds or to powder and compounded with the other substances by
means of steam heated rollers, or it may be dissolved and the compounds added
in liquid form. The horn with the other substances is then moulded into balls in
the usual way.
Dntahan 1801
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Golf Balls and the like.
I, GEORGE BOYD THORNTON of 78 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in the County
of Midlothian, North Britain, India Rubber Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of golf balls and the
like and consists in making golf balls of horn or the equivalent of horn such as
bone compounded or combined with gutta percha and india rubber or with other
suitable substances such as elastic gums glues or cements. The horn may be
reduced to shreds or to powder and compounded with the other substances by
means of steam heated rollers or it may be dissolved and the compounds added in
liquid form. The horn with the other substances that may be employed is then
moulded into balls in the usual way.
The ingredients used in the composition and the proportions thereof must be
varied to produce harder or softer and lighter or heavier balls as may be required
but an ordinary composition may
be as follows :-

page_text: such as bone, in combination with gutta percha and india rubber, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2. In the manufacture of golf balls the employment of horn or its equivalent,
in combination with any other suitable substances, such as elastic gums, glues or
cements substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 31st day of March 1892.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Loft, 3rd June, 1902 Accepted, 20th Aug., 1902
TOVO
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Golf Balls and the like.
I, GEORGE BOYD THORNTON of 78 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in the County
of Midlothian, North Britain, India Rubber Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of golf balls and the
like and consists in making golf balls of horn compounded with other substances
such as gutta percha, elastic gums, glues, cements or india rubber. The horn may
be reduced to shreds or to powder and compounded with the other substances by
means of steam heated rollers, or it may be dissolved and the compounds added
in liquid form. The horn with the other substances is then moulded into balls in
the usual way.
Dated this 8th day of October 1891
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Golf Balls and the like.
I, GEORGE BOYD THORNTON of 78 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in the County
of Midlothian, North Britain, India Rubber Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of golf balls and the
like and consists in making golf balls of horn or the equivalent of horn such as
bone compounded or combined with gutta percha and india rubber or with other
suitable substances such as elastic gums glues or cements. The horn may be
reduced to shreds or to powder and compounded with the other substances by
means of steam heated rollers or it may be dissolved and the compounds added in
liquid form. The horn with the other substances that may be employed is then
moulded into balls in the usual way.
"
The ingredients used in the composition and the proportions thereof must be
varied to produce harder or softer and lighter or heavier balls as may be required
but an ordinary composition may be as follows :—

page_text: such as bone, in combination with gutta percha and india rubber, substantially as
bereinbefore described.
2. In the manufacture of golf balls the employment of horn or its equivalent,
in combination with any other suitable substances, such as elastic gums, glues or
cements substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 21st dow of Vanah 1000
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.