Improvements in and relating to Golf Balls.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Golf Balls.
I, JAMES STURROCK, of 33 Princes Street in the City and County of Edinburgh,
Perfumer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to golf balls, and
essentially comprises the covering of same with a coat of cloth, canvas, stockinette,
or other like material.
In carrying these improvements into practice, the golf ball would be formed
from gutta percha or other suitable material, which would be cut off to the weight
The cloth used would preferably
required, and softened in an ordinary manner.
be stockinette, or like elastic material, which would be soaked or dipped in naptha,
carbon disulphide, or like substance, and the liquid would then be pressed out to
leave the cloth in a slightly moist condition. The cloth is then stretched over the
ball of gutta percha, care being taken to remove all folds, and this is then placed
within a mould and treated in an ordinary manner and it will be found that the
cloth or like material will freely adhere to the spherical surface of gutta percha.
The outer surface of the cloth or like material is then painted white or other
colour to form the completed ball.
By my improvements the cloth covering makes the ball season much quicker and
hardens it to such an extent that it is almost impossible to mark it; and the paint
will adhere to the cloth surface so long as the ball can be used.
The 5th Tanuary 1895.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
Improvements in and relating to Golf Balls.
I, JAMES STURROCK, sometime of 33 Princes Street, now of 97 Princes Street
in the City and County of Edinburgh, Perfumer, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing that is
to say:
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to golf balls and
essentially comprises the covering of same with a coat of canvas, stockinette or
other like material. In carrying these improvements into practice the golf ball
would be formed from gutta percha or other suitable material which would be cut
The cloth used
off to the weight required and softened in an ordinary manner.
would preferably be canvas, stockinette, or like material, which would be soaked
or dipped in naphtha or like substance and the liquid would then he pressed out to
leave the cloth in a slightly moist condition. The cloth is then stretched over
the ball of gutta percha preferably in two semi-spherical halves care being taken
to remove all folds, and this is then placed within a mould and treated in an ordinary

page_text: manner and it will be found that the cloth or like material will freely adhere to the
spherical surface of gutta percha. The outer surface of the cloth or like material
is then painted white or other colour to form the completed ball.
On the ball requiring to be remoulded, another covering of cloth can be added
in a like manner.
The rebounding and flying properties are improved and the ball is not so liable
to hack, it is much more economical and as the paint hardens very quickly it can
be brought into use for "play" in about a week instead of the length of time
usually required in ordinary ball maturing.
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 covering of golf balls with canvas, stockinette or like material substantially
as herein set forth.
Dated the 6th day of August 1895.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.