Improvement in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1897
Improvement in Golf Clubs.
WILFRED LAWSON BULLOWs Eldon Lodge Penns near Birmingham Iron-
founder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a spring made of steel, or other suitable metal, and may
be flat, round, spiral tubular, or any combination of these forms; one end of which
is fastened into or onto the club head & the other end is formed into a socket
or other suitable arrangement, into or onto which the wooden shaft can be
fastened.
If found advantageous one or more of the above forms of springs or any
combination of them, may be placed at any distance along the shaft.
Or the entire shaft may be made of tubular or other suitably shaped steel or
other metal, & the above springs may be made in one piece with this shaft or made
separately & fixed to the shaft afterwards.
My invention applies to all kinds of clubs used in the game of golf.
I, WILFRED LAWSON BULLOWS, of Eldon Lodge, Penns, near Birmingham,
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 consists of improvements in golf clubs my object being to provide
in such appliances the required degree of resilience or elasticity combined with
greater strength than is obtainable with the ordinary methods of construction.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to ;-
Figure 1 is an end elevation and Figure 2 a side elevation representing an iron
club, and Figures 3 and 4 similar views of a driving club, both constructed in
accordance with my invention.
Figure 5 is a plan and Figure 6 a side elevation representing a modified form of
my improved driving club.
In construction my improved golf clubs I employ a metallic spring preferably
such as A having a socket at one end for the attachment of the shaft B and its
other end formed suitably for attachment to the club head preferably by screw
studs or by pins as illustrated.
In the modification illustrated by Figures 5 and 6 the spring A is connected to
a head which is itself formed from spring steel or other metal and such a form of
head I employ either with or without packing or filling pieces in the spaces

page_text: between the sides of the spring. This form of head may also be made in one piece
with the spring A.
I sometimes inake the entire shaft of steel or other metal formed to n tubular or
other suitable configuration, or I dispose a spring or springs along the shaft.
I adapt my invention to the construction of all kinds of clubs used in the game
of golf.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my eaid inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The employment of metallic spring connections in the construction of golf
clubs substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. The improved golf clubs constructed and arranged substantially as described
and as illustrated.
1050.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.