New and Improved Golf Club.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar.. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
New and Improved Golf Club.
WILLIAM AUCHTERLONIE, DAVID AUCHTERLONIE and ANDREW WILLIAM
CROSTHWAITE, Golf Club and Ball Makers 9 Union Street, St. Andrews, trading
under the name of "Auchterlonie and Crosthwaite," do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of a golf cleek made of iron, or other metal, about one
half of the sole of which, is broadened at the centre, from front to back, and
gradually tapered towards the top, at the back. It is to be used as a lofting
cleek.
Dated thin and day of March 1901
WILLIAM AUCHTERLONIE.
DAVID AUCHTERLONIE.
A. W. CROSTHWAITE.
We WILLIAM AUCHTERLONIE, DAVID AUCHTERLONIE and ANDREW
WILLIAM CROSTHWAITE, Golf Club and Ball Makers, 9 Union Street
St. Andrews, trading under the name of Auchterlonie and Crosthwaite, Golf
Club and Ball Makers, 9 Union Street St. Andrews in the County of Fife 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 has reference to and comprises certain improvements in the head
or blade of golf club, and has for its object the striking of the lower part of the
ball under its centre thereby causing the ball to revolve or spin in a backward
direction while being propelled forward by the stroke of the club which has the
effect of stopping the ball more suddenly when it falls on the ground and counter-
acts the tendency of the ball to roll forward on alighting. And in order that our
said invention and the manner of performing or carrying the same into effect or
practice may be perfectly understood we hereby append an explanatory drawing
in which Fig. 1 represents a perspective front elevation of a metal golf club as
formed in accordance with our improvements in which A. is the blade. A' the
socket for the wooden handle or shaft, and A" where handle or shaft is inserted.
Fig. 2, is a perspective back elevation of the same golf club corresponding to
Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspective front edge elevation of section of the same golf
club corresponding to Figs. 1 and 2. Referring to these drawings the improvements
consist in broadening the sole of the said golf club from a a Fig. 1 to a a Fig. 2,
then gradually tapered from a a to b b Fig. 2, so that the lower part of the face of
the blade A, can pass forward and strike the ball on its under surface below its
centre and cause it to turn in a backward direction while being struck with the main
part of the club to send. the ball upwards and forward from the surface of the
blade A, Fig. 1. By this improvement the ball is spun or rotated while passing.

page_text: through the air in the opposite direction to that in which it rolls when it first
touches the ground (or tends to do so,) and the two rolling actions thus tend to
stop the ball as it falls and touches the ground. This new and improved construction
of golf club blade A, may either be formed of malleable iron or other metal as
shown in the drawings with a socket A', for attaching it to the wood handle, or
shaft which is inserted at A" all otherwise as metal golf clubs have been heretofore;
or these new blades or clubs may be otherwise formed of hard wood but broadened
at the sole and gently tapered to top of blade at back as shown in lower face a a
Fig. 1 and a a to bb Fig. 2, or more clearly shown in Fig. 3, where the blade is
cut through the centre (as indicated in dotted line B. B. Figs. 1, 2, and 3,) showing
more clearly and definitely the construction of that part of the club which strikes
the ball in the act of playing, and makes it spin or rotate while passing through
the air in the opposite direction to that in which it rolls when it touches the
ground.
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
The construction or forming by the broadening of the sole at its centre then
gradually tapering from the sole at the back part of the blade to the top of the
back part of the blade as shown in Figs. 2, and 3, substantially as and for the
purposes and advantages herein described in reference to and shown in the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of November Eighteen hundred and ninety
WILLIAM AUCHTERLONIE.
DAVID AUCHTERLONIE.
ANDREW WILLIAM CROSTHWAITE.