Improvements in Golf-irons, Clubs, and other similar Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 2nd May, 1895-Accepted, 8th June. 1395
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Golf-irons, Clubs, and other similar Articles.
I. ROBERT RAMSBOTTOM of 81 Market Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Sportsman's Outfitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates chiefly to golf-irons or clubs but is applicable to other
similar instruments and consists in the improved construction of the part
forming the socket and manner of treating the stick secured therein at that
part, the object being to obviate the tendency of the stick to break at the
socket.
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In carrying out my invention I form the tubular socket of the "iron
or head
with a deeply serrated edge or mouth, or with a series of slits or saw cuts arranged
around the mouth so as to obtain some flexibility in the socket the metal of the
socket being further thinned down for the purpose.
The stick is then fitted and secured therein in the usual way and around the
socket and stick about the joint I wind a string, wire or tape of any suitable
substance.
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R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, and 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.
I, ROBERT RAMS BOTTOM of 81 Market Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Sportsman's Outfitter, 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 chiefly to golf irons and golf clubs but also to other
instruments in which a metallic or part metallic head is secured to a stick or
shaft, and consists in the improved construction of the part forming the socket and
manner of securing the stick or shaft therein by which the tendency hitherto
existing of the stick or shaft to break at the socket is considerably reduced.
Hitherto the sockets of such instruments were of plain tubular form; the sticks
or shafts were fitted therein tightly and pinned, and in some cases bound round
afterwards with string. It is obvious however that the sticks would gradually
work loose in the sockets and become indented by the rim of the socket and finally
break. The string binding would not tend to better secure them in the sockets,
but would simply prevent the sticks from splitting near the sockets.
Now according to my invention I make the socket itself flexible and after fitting
the stick or shaft therein I bind both together, the peculiar construction of the
socket permitting it to adjust itself to, and clip the stick.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have attached
hereunto a sheet of drawings to which I will now refer.

page_text: In the said drawings
Figure 1 represents a view of a golf iron apart from the stick or shaft, having
the socket formed according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents the socket of a golf iron or other head secured to a stick or
shaft according to my invention.
Figure 3 represents a view of a socket of modified form.
It will be seen from the drawings that the socket a is formed with a flexible
part or with flexible parts or fingers 6 generally of the form shewn in Figure 1.
These flexible parts or fingers are formed by deeply serrating the shell of the
socket or forming fingers thereon. For this purpose the metal shell is preferably
thinned down to the mouth of the socket and the fingers b formed so as to be as
flexible as possible. In some cases I may separately attach the fingers to a
plain socket by brazing or by riveting in order to obtain greater flexibility of
the fingers.
In other cases I form the flexible part of the socket with a finger b or more
than one having a helical turn as shewn in Figure 3, which represents a socket
having three fingers b, b', and curved round in the form of a triple threaded
screw.
In each case the stick or shaft c is fitted into the flexible socket a band the
socket preferably securely bound to the stick by a cord or string d causing the
flexible fingers of the socket to grip the stick.
I do not confiue myself to the particular form of the fingers shewn in the
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
The manner of forming the sockets and securing thereto the shafts of golf irons,
clubs and similar striking instruments substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
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R. J. URQUHART,
57, Barton Arcade, Manchester, aud 5, Clayton Square, Liverpool,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent.