An Appliance relating to the Game of Golf.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance relating to the Game of Golf.
ARTHUR GUY ELLIS 11 Lincoln's Inn Fields W.C. Solicitor, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Two rods of bamboo or other wood each about 3 feet 6 inches long over which
a ring is passed and secured about 6 inches from the upper ends so that it cannot
slip up or down while the rods can open so as to form an unequal X.
No pivot or pin is required nor is any string or other similar appliance necessary
to control lateral extension the ring effecting both these objects.
The heads or handles of the golfers clubs not in use are lodged in the base of
the upper angles of the X their other ends resting on the ground and forming the
3rd foot of a tripod.
Dated this 21st day of August 1893.
ARTHUR GUY ELLIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance relating to the Game of Golf.
I ARTHUR GUY ELLIS of 11 Lincoln's Inn Fields W.C. Solicitor 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:-
The nature of this invention is a rest or support for a golf players clubs while
not in the players actual use. The player lodges or rests the clubs not actually
in use by placing the heads or handles of the clubs in the upper angle or fork
formed by the lateral extension of two rods, and resting the other ends of the clubs
on the ground, thus forming the third foot of a tripod. The clubs not in use
remain always at hand and can be readily picked up and transported.
The invention is constructed in the following manner :-Two rods of bamboo or
other wood each about 3 feet 6 inches long over which a ring or its equivalent is
passed and secured about 6 inches from the upper ends so that it cannot slip up or
down, while the rods can open in the shape of the letter X.
This ring may be either of metal or other substance and may be maintained in
its position by ties of metal, leather, cord or other substance. It may be also a
single, round oval or oblong ring, or a double ring or its equivalent with two
openings side by side through each of which a rod is passed, and the openings in
such double ring or its equivalent may be either round, oval, or oblong.
The drawing marked Fig. 4 shows the appliance as fitted with a single ring.
The drawing marked Fig. 1. shows the appliance as fitted with the double ring
or connection (end view).
Fig. 2 shows the same (side view) with the rods extended and crossed ready to
receive the clubs.
No pivot or pin is required to hold the two rods together nor is any string or
other similar appliance necessary to control the lateral extension, the ring or its
equivalent effecting both these objects.
Fig. 3 represents a plan view of the double ring above referred to.
The circular openings A. A. Fig. 3 are those through which the rods which
form the support of the clubs heads are passed.

page_text: Through the openings marked T. T. Fig. 3 are passed the above mentioned ties
of metal leather cord or other substance. In Fig. 2. these ties are shown as made
of metal. Fig. 1. B is a metal plate or tie passing through T. Fig. 3. curved in
the middle so as to give some play and to give a flat bearing on the rod to which it
is screwed or otherwise fastened. The bend or shoulder in this tie or plate also
keeps the double ring (Fig. 3) in its proper position. P. Fig. 1. is a plain metal
plate fixed to prevent abrasion of the rods. There are thus on each rod two plates
or ties as shown in Fig. 1. B. and P. when such ties are made of metal. Fig. 3
might also be attached by a thong or tie of leather cord or other substance as
indicated in Fig. 4.
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
1. In golf appliances of the kind described the securing together of two
rods by
a single or double ring or its equivalent instead of by pins or pivots
substantially as hereinbefore described, and by this means also controlling their
lateral extension as illustrated by Figures 1 2.3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1894