Improved Handles or Holding Parts of Striking Implements used in either Games or Labour.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th Feb., 1898-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Handles or Holding Parts of Striking Implements used in
either Games or Labour.
I, FRANCIS WENTWORTH BREWSTER, of The Golfers' Club, Whitehall, London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved handles or holding parts of striking imple-
ments used in either games or labour to deliver a two-handed side stroke or blow.
The invention is particularly applicable to golf-club shafts, cricket bats and
other like striking game apparatus requiring to be used with the two hands in
delivering the blow on the ball or other object to be struck, though, as aforesaid,
it is also applicable to instruments of labour requiring to be so used.
The object of the invention is to so shape or fashion the upper and lower portions
of the handle or holding part of the implement respectively grasped by the hands,
that they shall better suit anatomical peculiarities than does the usual fashioning
thereof of parallel or other uniform siding.
its use.
The fact that the lower joints of the human fingers are longer than the other
joints makes them less adapted for close contact with a small circular object
such as the handle of a striking implement, and renders it desirable that the sur-
face of the handle immediately under these joints should be appropriately shaped.
This shaping I effect by slightly flattening the handle at such parts, which I find
to give a far more effective and agreeable "hold" than does the usual shape, and
also to obviate or lessen any tendency to twist or torsion of the implement during
The two such flattened surfaces, intended for corresponding positions of
the two hands, will be more or less on opposite sides of the handle, and their
relative positions to the square of the handle will respectively vary accordingly
as the user disposes his hands; as a rule, however, such surfaces would both
be slightly on the under side of the axis of the handle. The remaining surface
of the handle may be shaped according to taste, but I prefer that the improved
handle should be made oval or oblong in cross section through each holding part.
As applied to the handle of a golf-club-shaft, the especial object would be to
prevent the shaft from twisting while being swung by the player through the
air in making the stroke, so as to ensure the delivery of a truer blow on the ball
and a greater certainty of attaining the desired effect, thus giving the player less
to think about when playing the game and enabling him to play the game to
better advantage.
In one modification of the invention, the handle-part of the golf-club-shaft,
cricket-bat or other striking implement, that is the part thereof which is gripped
by the two hands when using the instrument for its intended purpose, is formed
in lower and upper half-portions respectively adapted for the two hands, such
half-lengths being made of an oblong formation in section (with parallel or
tapering sides as may be preferred) and the two half-lengths being adjusted in
an angular relation or crosswise conformably with the natural gripping position

page_text: of the hands when both simultaneously engaged in gripping the club or bat-
handle.
The improved handle parts may be or may be respectively made entire, or may
be built up or padded up to the improved form, thereby enabling existing golf-
clubs, cricket-bats and other striking implements of the nature aforesaid to be
readily adapted to the present improvement.
The improved handle may be covered with helically wound strips of leather,
or be bound around with twine or may be otherwise covered, or may be left
uncovered.
DL1 1
DAY, DAVIES, & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Handles or Holding Parts of Sriking Implements used in
either Games or Labour.
I, FRANCIS WENTWORTH BREWSTER, of The Golfers' Club, Whitehall, London,
Gentleman, 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 improved handles or holding parts of striking imple-
ments used in either games or labour to deliver a two-handed side stroke or blow.
The invention is particularly applicable to golf-club shafts, cricket bats and
other like striking game apparatus requiring to be used with the two hands in
delivering the blow on the ball or other object to be struck, though, as aforesaid,
it is also applicable to instruments of labour requiring to be so used.
The object of the invention is to so shape or fashion the upper and lower portions
of the handle or holding part of the implement respectively grasped by the hands,
that they shall better suit anatomical peculiarities than does the usual fashioning
thereof of parallel or other uniform siding.
The fact that the lower joints of the human fingers are longer than the other
joints makes them less adapted for close contact with a small circular object
such as the handle of a striking implement, and renders it desirable that the sur-
face of the handle immediately under these joints should be appropriately shaped.
This shaping I effect by slightly flattening the handle at such parts, which I find
to give a far more effective and agreeable "hold" than does the usual shape and
also to obviate or lessen any tendency to twist or torsion of the implement during
The two such flattened surfaces intended for corresponding positions of
the two hands, will be more or less on opposite sides of the handle, and their
relative positions to the square of the handle will respectively vary accordingly
as the user disposes his hands; as a rule, however, such surfaces would both
be slightly on the under side of the axis of the handle, and I prefer that the
improved handle should be made oval or oblong in cross section through each
holding part. The remainder of the handle may be shaped according to taste.
its use.
As applied to the handle of a gold-club-shaft, the especial object would be to
prevent the shaft from twisting while being swung by the player through the
air in making the stroke, so as to ensure the delivery of a truer blow on the ball
and a greater certainty of attaining the desired effect, thus giving the player less
to think about when playing the game and enabling him to play the game to
better advantage.

page_text: This aplication of the invention is represented, by way of example, on the
accompanying drawings, in which like reference letters indicate like parts where-
ever repeated, and in which;
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Figs. 1, and 2, represent elevations of the club as at right angles to each other;
and
Figs. 3, and 4, represent, on an enlarged scale, cross sections of the handle
part of the club-shaft respectively through 1-1, and 2-2, Fig. 2.
A, represents the handle part of the golf club shaft, cricket bat or other striking
implement, that is, the part thereof which is gripped by the two hands when using
the instrument for its intended purpose, which is formed in lower and upper half
portions, a, b, respectively adapted for the two hands, such half lengths being
made of an oblong formation in section, vide Figs. 3, and 4, (with parallel or
tapering sides as may be preferred) and the two half lengths being adjusted in an
angular relation or crosswise, vide Fig. 3, conformably with the natural gripping
position of the hands when both simultaneously engaged in gripping the club or
bat handle.
The improved handle parts may be or may respectively be made entire, or may
be built up or padded up to the improved form, thereby enabling existing golf
clubs, cricket bats and other striking implements of the nature aforesaid to be
readily adapted to the present improvement.
The improved handle may be covered with helically wound strips of leather,
as represented, or may be bound around with twine, or may be otherwise covered,
or may be left uncovered.
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:-
As an improvement in or applicable to the handles or holding parts of striking
implements used in either games or labor and requiring to be used with the two
hands in delivering the blow, forming such handles or holding parts in lower and
upper half portions respectively adapted for the two hands by each such portion
being made of an oblong formation in section and by both such portions being
arranged in an angular relation or crosswise, as herein before set forth.
TL 101 1 of Wahm
1808
DAY, DAVIES, & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.