Improvements in Presses for Making Golf and other Balls.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
Improvements in Presses for Making Golf and other Balls.
I, WILLIAM HARVEY SMITH, of 4, Westfield Crescent, Bradford, in the County
of York, Insurance Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in golf balls and presses or moulds
for making same and other balls.
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E more or less cover the periphery of the ball with a number of small dis-
connected cells or recesses in which, when impact is made with the striking
implement, air is compressed and on expansion increases the momentum im-
parted to the ball. The cells or recesses may be arranged in "lines or rows
curves or circles and may be of pyramidic or other conveniently made form.
To enable the finished ball to be removed from the press or mould as well as
to equally distribute the pressure of the mould upon the ball so as to produce a
ball of uniform density I make the press or mould in five or more sections.
By preference I make the press in six sections using four to form
a broad zone round the ball and the other two to form the diametri-
cally opposite portions on each side of the zone. To bring all the sections of
the press uniformly and simultaneously together I may provide inclined pro-
jections on each side of the zonal sections adapted to engage taper or conical
recesses formed in flanges or extensions on the two other sections. Interlocking
pieces are preferably provided to keep the side peripheries of the zonal sections in
the same relative position to the sides or peripheries of the other two sections.
The interior of the press or mould may be finished by a spherical cutter or
reamer preferably made to act in a six section press upon four sections at a time
the sections being gradually brought together upon the cutter. Pyramidic pro-
jections may be produced in the interior of the mould by forming suitable serra-
tions along the teeth of the cutter and using it upon each section in two positions
at right angles to each other.
Dated this 8th day of December 1898
Improvements in Presses for Making Golf and other Balls.
I, WILLIAM HARVEY SMITH, of 4, Westfield Crescent, in the City of Bradford,
Insurance Agent, 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 relates to improvements in presses for making golf balls and
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page_text: To equally distribute the pressure of the mould upon the ball so as to produce
a ball of uniform density I make the spherical mould in at least five sections,
using three to form a broad zone of the ball and the other two to form the diametri-
cally opposite portions on each side of the zone. By preference I make the
press in six sections using four sections to form the zonal portion of the press.
To fully describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of my improved mould.
Figure 2, is a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, is a similar view to Figure 1 with two of the zonal sections and the
top or upper end section removed.
Figure 4, is a plan view of the same.
Figure 5, is a separate view of one of the zonal sections.
Figure 6, is a diametrical section of one of the end sections.
To bring the four zonal sections 2 together with the two end sections 3 I
provide inclined projections 4 on each side of the zonal sections adapted to
engage taper or conical recesses 6 formed in flanges or extensions 7 on the end
sections 3. To close the mould the sections 3 are pressed towards each other
in any convenient way after the zonal sections have been placed in position.
Cross pins 12 are fixed across the recesses 6 to engage the slots or notches 13
in the ends of the projections 4 and keep the sides of the sections 2 equi-distant
apart as they are brought together.
The sections may be marked or cut in any suitable way to produce any marking
that may be required upon the ball moulded therein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A ball press or mould formed of three or more zonal sections and two end
sections to complete the sphere, substantially as herein shown and described.
2. The improved ball press or mould illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of September 1899.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.