Year: 1896

page_text: I, WILLOUGHBY EDWARD GORDON FORBES of Upton Cheyney, Bitton, near
Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, Major in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved scoring device, and means, for
attaching the same to a golfing tool, and has for its object to provide ready and
easy facilities whereby a player may personally, and without inconvenience to his
playing, record his own score, and if desired, that of his opponent also, as a check
upon the score taken by the authorized scorer, or that of his own caddy, or both, or
for like use when the latter may not be available.
For the purposes of my invention I form in the hitherto solid handle of the
putter or other tool used in the game, (preferably, the putter this being usually the
last tool employed) a recess extending from the top downwards for a suitable
distance, and in this I place and fix by any suitable or convenient means, a plug or
partly solid case, made of metal, vulcanite, wood, or other suitable material,
or combination of materials, in the centre of which I provide a vertical groove or
aperture, preferably rectangular in cross section, and of such dimensions as to
receive a pair of celluloid, bone, ivory, slate, wood, or other tablets, hinged or
otherwise connected together at their lower ends, such hinged or otherwise
com.ected ends, being fastened to a plug or strip of suitable material, arranged to
slide within the hollow portion of the said case, in such a manner, that the said
tablets when folded may slide within, and be partly concealed by the said groove or
aperture, or be withdrawn therefrom a sufficient distance to permit these to be
parted and lie open, resting upon the upper end of the putter, or the said case, and
while in this position the player would, by means of a suitable pencil, record
thereon the scores of himself, or his opponent or both. The said tablets being
made of, or faced with, such material, that the said scores may afterwards be
cleaned or washed off, may have stamped, engraved, or otherwise indelibly placed
thereon, in any desired manner numbers or marks indicating the player and his
opponent, and the usual columns, figures and divisions for the reception of the
score or records of the player and his opponent respectively and the total of the
same.
On the upper portion of the said case, and at either side of the said groove, I
provide apertures or cavities for the purpose of receiving and holding a pencil or
pencils for recording the score, and a sponge or sponges or any suitable equivalent
therefor for cleaning out the scores when no longer needed. The upper end of the
said case, or the end of the putter handle, may be provided with a hinged hollow
cap or cover of any suitable material, for enclosing and protecting the said'
tablets etc. from weather, and to form a finish to the putter handle and I may
arrange that the said cap or cover, when closed, may be fastened by a spring-catch,
hook and eye, or by any other suitable meaus, and when so closed, the handle of
the putter, would be similar in appearance to the putter handles now made and
used, and the extra weight consequent upon the addition of my said scoring device,

page_text: would be more than compensated by the portion of the putter handle removed fr
the reception of the same.
Dated this 11th day of June 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
1, WILLOUGHBY EDWARD GORDON FORBES of Upton Cheyney, Bitton, near
Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, Major in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment,
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 :-
My invention relates to a new or unproved scoring device for the use of golfers
when at play, and means for attaching the same to and concealing it within the
handle of one of the golfing tools, and has for its object to provide a ready and
convenient means whereby a player may personally, and without hinderance to his
playing record his own score, and if desired, that of his opponent also, as a
check upon the score taken by the authorized person, or that of his caldy or
both.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have hereunto appended
a sheet of drawings, in which I have chosen to assume that the same has been
applied to the handle of a putter, this being usually the last tool used in the
game.
Fig. 1 is an external elevational view of a putter handle to which my invention
has been applied, the same being shewn with the lid raised.
Fig. 2 is a part vertical sectional view of Fig. 1 showing my invention in
position therein with the lid shut down.
Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of Figs. 1 or 2 with the lid fully open.
Fig. 4 is a part view of the tablets or book upon which the scores may be
recorded, and which is shewn closed and enclosed in Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 shows the said tablets or book withdrawn from the putter handle and
illustrates the manner of its use when recording the scores thereon.
For the purposes of my invention I bore or otherwise provide in the putter
handle A a recess or chamber extending from the top for a suitable distauce in a
downward direction, and in this place and fix by any suitable or convenient
means a plug or partly solid or hollow case B, which may be of metal, vulcanite,
wood or other suitable material throughout, or any desired combination of such
materials, and when this is hollow as shewn I close its upper end or mouth by a
plug C, in the centre of which I provide a preferably rectangular aperture D for
the reception of a book or set of tablets E, and adjacent to Ď a circular aperture
for the reception of a lead or other pencil F, and if desired a like aperture for the
reception of a pencil like stick having upon its end a small piece of sponge G, the
whole being enclosed by a metallic or other lid or cover H, provided with any
suitable form of catch for retaining the same in a el sed or open position or both,
which may conveniently be a spring J fixed within the case B, and adapted to
collide with a projection K fixed upon or formed integral with the lid or cover H,
as shewn.
The recording medium E, may consist of two or more tablets of bone, ivory,
slate wood or other material capable of being written upon by a lead or other

page_text: pencil, or the same may be in the form of a small book having any number of
leaves of thin celluloid or other material capable of being written upon by an.
ordinary lead pencil F, and from which such writing may be easily removed by a
moistened sponge when desired, for which purpose I provide the sponge G, but
whether E consists of a pair of tablets or a small book as shewn the same would be
arranged to fold at the point a whereat it is connected by a link or the like b to
a block plate, plug or other device c adapted to slide vertically within the case 13,
so that the book or the like when closed may be pushed down into B and the
cover H shut down as illustrated by Fig. 2, when the putter may be used in the
ordinary way in pursuit of the game, and after such use the lid H may be raised
and the book or the like E withdrawn and the record made thereon by the pencil F',
in the manner illustrated by Fig. 5, when the book or the like E may be again
closed and returned to its position shewn by Fig. 2 until again requried for use for
recording the next score of the player or his opponent.
The tablets or leaves of the book E may have printed, stamped, engraved or
otherwise indelibly placed thereon, in any desired manner, numbers, lines, columns
and other marks or divisions suitable for recording thereon the said scores, an
example of which is shewn in Fig. 4.
I may find it convenient to fix within the lid or cover H a small piece of
flannel, cloth or sponge as indicated by the dotted line L in Fig. 2, which if
kept damp or moistened during play may conveniently be employed for cleaning.
the ball in dirty weather.
Although in the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings the
portion B is considered as hollow, this may conveniently be of some solid material
such as wood or vulcanite, in which case the receptacles for E, F and G may be
bored out of the solid substance of B, and the extra weight consequent upon the
addition of my invention to the putter or other tool would be more than compensated
by the weight of the substance of the said putter or other tool removed for the
reception of the same.
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,
1st. In combination with a golfing tool, the application and use of a book or
tablets, and pencil and sponge for recording the state of the game thereon and
removing the same therefrom, the whole being enclosed within the handle of the
said tool substantially as herein described and shewn.
2nd. In combination with a putter or other golfing tool A, the application thereto.
and enclosure therein of a solid or hollow block or case B, containing a pencil F,
sponge G, and tablets or a book such as E, the latter adapted to be slid in and out
of B, the whole being covered by a lid or cap H, in which may or may not be
provided a sponge or the like L, substantially as and for the purposes herein set
Jorth and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of March 1897
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.