An Improved Holder or Support for Golf Clubs and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder or Support for Golf Clubs and the like.
I, JOHN BUCHANAN of 32 Braid Road, Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian,
North Britain, Golf Club Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved holder or support for golf clubs and the
like and has for its object to enable a player during the game to have all the clubs
that he is not using to be conveniently supported so as to dispense with the necessity
of having an attendant to carry the clubs that he is not using; or to save the
necessity of laying the clubs down on the ground.
In the carrying out of my invention I make an ordinary walking stick or umbrella
effect the desired purpose; I provide the stick with a spike at the one end for
sticking into the ground; the head of the stick I make preferably in the form of a
crook and the attachment of the crook to the stick is such that the crook is capable
of being turned round so as to be at right angles with the stick when it is required
for supporting the clubs; the crook thus provides a curved head or rest, the crook
being made large enough to hold the full number of clubs with the exception of the
club that is being played with. The crook, or other formation of the head, may be
mounted to the top of the stick in many different ways, for example the crook may
be formed with a plug to work into a correspondingly bored sleeve or recess in or
through the top of the stick; or the crook may be hinged to the head of the stick
in such a manner that when the crook is turned down upon the hinge it is at right
angles with the stick and I may lock the hinge in any suitable manner such as by
a ring or tube which can be sliden over the joint in order to keep the head rigid
when the stick is not being used as a club support.
I may provide the end of the stick with a reversible ferrule and spike piece so
that when it is required to use the stick for golf purposes the ferrule is unscrewed
and reversed so that the spike end of the ferrule piece is screwed into the bottom
of the stick.
Dated this 10th d
of Ontahan 1201
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder or Support for Golf Clubs and the like.
I, JOHN BUCHANAN of 32 Braid Road, Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian,
North Britain, Golf Club Maker, 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 an improved holder or support for golf clubs and the
like, and has for its object to enable a player during the game to have all the clubs
that he is not using to be conveniently supported so as to dispense with the
necessity of having an attendant to carry the clubs that he is not using; or to save
the necessity of laying the clubs down on the ground.
In the carrying out of my invention I make an ordinary walking stick or umbrella
effect the desired purpose; I provide the stick with a spike at the one end for
sticking into the ground; the head of the stick I make preferably with a crook and
the attachment of the crook to the stick is such that the crook is capable of being
turned round so as to be at right angles with the stick when it is required for

page_text: supporting the clubs; the crook thus provides a curved head or rest, the crook
being made large enough to hold the full number of clubs with the exception of the
club that is being played with. The crook or other formation of the head, may be
mounted to the top of the stick in many different ways, for example the crook may
be formed with a plug to work into a correspondingly bored sleeve or recess in or
through the top of the stick; or the crook may be hinged to the head of the stick
in such a manner that when the crook is turned down upon the hinge it is at right
angles with the stick and I may lock the hinge in any suitable manner such as by a
ring or tube which can be sliden over the joint in order to keep the head rigid when
the stick is not being used as a club support.
Figure 1 is a side view of the appliance while in use as an ordinary walking
stick.
Figure 2 shows the crook A turned down so as to be at right angles with the
shaft of the stick B. C is the one portion of the hinge which is rivetted or
attached to the shaft of the stick. D (Fig. 2) is a view of the end of the other
portion of the hinge and which is secured to the lower portion of the hinge C by
the pin E. F (Figure 1) is the tube which holds the joint rigid; Figure 2 shows
the end of the said tube after it has been lifted up past the joint and the crook
turned down.
The stick may be provided with the reversible ferrule G so that when it is
required to use the stick for golf purposes the ferrule may be unscrewed and
reversed so that the spike end of the ferrule piece projects from the bottom of the
stick as shown in Fig. 2.
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 means for converting a walking stick, or the like, into a support for golf
clubs substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.