Improvements in Golf-club Handles, also applicable for analogous purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22-d Jan., 1395-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Golf-club Handles, also applicable for analogous
purposes.
We JAMES MCHARDY of Zoffany House Chiswick Middlesex Scientific Expert,
and CHARLES GRIMSTON GORDON, Civil Engineer of 39 Victoria Street,
Westminster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in golf-club handles also applicable for
analogous purposes.
It is well known that the material used for forming a grip on such handles
becomes loose after a time. Our said invention enables us to produce an
immovable grip.
Having provided a sleeve of suitable material, which shall be a loose fit for the
handle to be mounted, we prepare the said handle either by packing or grooving it,
so as to leave one or any number of flutes or grooves either straight or spiral. The
said grooves are just deep enough to contain an extra thickness of material
together with the seam in the aforesaid sleeve. Having suitably bored the handle
from groove to groove, we pull the cover over it and stitch it on (say with a
leather thong) the stitching passing through the handle and pulling the cover down
into the grooves. This process tightens the whole material and burries the seam
which may be rubbed down to the circle of the grip: or, we may dispense with
stitching and holes through the handle, by using small nails, by which we force a
binding into the said groove or grooves. In this case the small nails are punched
beneath the surface and the binding is dressed to the circle of the grip. Any
material may be used. If the aforesaid grooves or flutes be plain, stitching,
rivetting or nailing may be used for fixing: if they be of a dove-tailed or analogous
shape (say in tubular handles) the cover may be fixed as follows; a line of elastic
material may be forced in laterally or, a fold of flexible thin metal may be inserted
so as to be capable of admitting an expanding key which shall serve to fix the
parts at all points: or, if the grooves be in a spring material a wire may be
laterally forced into the said expanding groove and, carrying with it the material
of the cover, will there retain it as in a dove-tailed joint.
Dated this 29th day of March 1894.
JAMES MCHARDY.
CHAS. G. GORDON.
Improvements in Golf-club Handles, also applicable for analogous
purposes.
We, JAMES MC HARDY of Zoffany House Chiswick Middlesex Scientific Expert
and CHARLES GRIMSTON GORDON of 39 Victoria Street London Civil Engineer
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, which relates to improvements in golf-club-handles, also

page_text: applicable for analogous purposes, is carried into practice by preparing the handle
in any suitable shape and providing it with one or more fluted grooves running
longitudinally or spirally, and capable of receiving a row of stitches or their
equivalent fastenings (such as sprigs or small headed nails)-passing through the
material of the grip and drawing the said material into the said groove or grooves
in such a manner as to fill it or them up so as to leave the said grip sufficiently
smooth to the hand and yet perfectly secured against slipping out of position.
If we bore such a prepared handle (having grooves opposite to one another)
from groove to groove and, (with or without an extra piece of suitable material to
fill the said grooves) stitch on a leather cover, using, say, a lace of leather for the
purpose we tighten the whole material and bury the seam sufficiently to admit of
its being rubbed down and dressed off to form a perfectly round grip for the
handle.
If we use nails as an equivalent to the stitching, the heads may be punched
down below the surface and produce the same convenient seam-like fastening
capable of being rubbed down and dressed to taste.
If the aforesaid grooves be of a dove-tail or analogous shape (say in a tubular
handle) the cover may be fixed by forcing in a line of suitable material, or a fold
of flexible thin metal may be inserted so as to admit an expanding key for the
fixing of the said cover.
If the grooves be in a spring material a wire may be forced in, carrying with it
the material of the cover and retaining it as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;
1. The application of a prepared groove or grooves, spiral or longitudinal, to a
golf-club-handle for the purpose of fixing and securing the grip as herein set
forth.
2. The application of a groove or grooves, as herein set forth and described to any
kind of handle.
t.
JAMES MCHARDY,
CHAS. GRIMSTON' GORDON,
By Thos. Hy. Gardiner,
His Attorney.