Improvements in Golf Ball Cleaners.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
Improvements in Golf Ball Cleaners.
We, CHARLES MOXON, of 77 George Street, Edinburgh, Decorator, and
JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER BRAND, Commercial Traveller, of Hebron Bank,
Morningside Edinburgh aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved golf ball cleaner, and has for its object
to provide a golf ball cleaner which will be convenient for carrying in the
pocket.
In carrying out our invention we take a piece of spongeopoline, or other
spongy substance, and attach it to a piece of sheet india-rubber or other water-proof
material. The remainder of the sheet india-rubber is formed into a hood or cover
which can be folded over the portion having the spongy material attached when
the cleaner is to be carried in the pocket.
Dated this 11th day of November 1893.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Golf Ball Cleaners.
We, CHARLES Moxon, of 77 George Street, Edinburgh, Decorator, and
JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER BRAND, Commercial Traveller, of Hebron Bank,
Morningside, Edinburgh aforesaid, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an improved golf ball cleaner, and has for its object to
provide a golf ball cleaner which will be convenient for carrying in the pocket
without wetting the pocket.
In carrying out our invention we take a piece of spongiopiline, or other spongy
substance, and attach it to a piece of sheet india rubber, or other waterproof
material. The remainder of the sheet india-rubber is formed into a hood or cover
which can be folded over the portion having the spongy material attached when
the cleaner is to be carried in the pocket.
In order that our invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect we have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in the several
figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
Figure 1 is a view showing the cleaner ready for use.
Figure 2 is a view showing it folded or closed when being carried in the
pocket.
Figure 3 is an end view of Figure 1.
A is the spongiopiline, or other spongy substance, which is fixed to one part B
of the sheet rubber or other waterproof material, the other portion C being formed
into a hood or cover which is folded over the spongy material when the cleaner is
not being used, as shown in Figure 2.

page_text: 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 :-
:—
A golf ball cleaner consisting of a piece of spongiopiline or other spongy
substance fixed to one part of a sheet of rubber or other waterproof material,
the other portion being in the form of a hood or cover which can be folded over
the spongy material when the cleaner is to be carried about in the pocket,
preventing moisture wetting the pocket and keeping spongiopiline or other
substance always in a damp condition substantially as described and shown on the
drawings.
Dated this 12th day of September 1894.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.