Improvements in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 14th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Golf Clubs.
I, ANDREW MORISON of 153 Queen Street, in the City of Glasgow, Merchant's
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Hitherto it has been the practice in the manufacture of golf clubs to make the
shaft or handle separate from the head or striking end and to join these two parts
together.
Under this invention the shaft and head of the club are both fashioned from
the same piece of wood and in the head so made a slot is cut extending horizontally
from the striking face to or towards the back of the club. Into this slot there is
inserted a separate piece of wood cut so that the reed or grain is presented endwise
to the ball. At the back of the inserted piece lead or other usual loading is filled
in which lead may be in the same slot as the inserted piece or in a separate cavity
provided for its reception.
Dated this Seventeenth day of July 1891.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Golf Clubs.
I, ANDREW MORISON of 153 Queen Street in the City of Glasgow, Merchant's
Clerk, 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 :-
Hitherto it has been the practice in the manufacture of golf clubs to make the
shaft or handle separate from the head or striking end and to splice or join these
two parts together.
Under this invention the shaft and head of the club are both fashioned from the
same piece of wood sawn out to shape as illustrated in side elevation at Figure 1
in plan of the head a and base or root of the shaft b, at Figure 2 and in cross
section of the head and elevation of the shaft at Figure 3 of the annexed
drawings.
At the back of the head lead or other loading c is filled in as usual and to the
under side at the driving face of the club there is also attached the usual horn or
metal strip d.
The striking face e may as more particularly seen on Figure 2 be integral
with the body a of the head but as shewn in elevation plan and cross section
respectively by Figures 45 and 6 it is preferred to make in the striking face a
slot extending from the forward end of the head to or near to the base or root of
the shaft and to insert in the said slot a separate piece of wood so cut that the
reed or grain is presented endwise to the ball thus giving a driving surface which
does not indent by impact with the ball. The driving block f is glued or
cemented to the head a and retained in position by two or more screws or
pins g.
Instead of sawing out the head a to shape as before described the wood of which
the combined head and shaft is composed may be steamed and bent to shape and
under this mode of manufacture to prevent the wood again uubending through
exposure to damp or otherwise the head a is sawn up horizontally and preferably

page_text: at the middle of its thickness from the point to about an inch above the neck or
base of the shaft as indicated at / Figure and by the dotted line h Figure_1.
After being so sawn the wood is steamed but before being bent the surfaces at the
said draft are glued or cemented together after which the bending is effected and
the upper and under sections of the head may be further held together by one or
more screws or pins.
Figures 7, 8 and 9 shew in side elevation in plan and in cross section of the head
respectively a further modification of the improved club in which the saw draft h
in the head is made of sufficient depth to receive the driving block f which in this
case extends through to or considerably towards the back of the head.
Figure 10 is a front end elevation of the driving block fused with this con-
struction. Figure 11 is a side elevation of it and Figure 12 is a plan.
The driving block is glued or cemented to the upper and lower parts of the
head and it may be further secured by screws or pins and the lead or other loading
is or may be inserted in one or more holes drilled vertically near the back of the
block.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :--
1. A golf club in which the head and shaft are made or fashioned in one piece of :
wood substantially as described with reference to the drawings annexed.
2. A golf club in which the head and shaft are made or fashioned in one piece of
wood the head which may or may not be split horizontally having secured to it or
carried in it a driving block of wood with its reed or grain presented endwise to
the ball substantially as and for the purpose described with reference to the accom- 1
panying drawings.
Dated this Seventh day of Anril 1909
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62. Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.