Improvements in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar.. 1894-4ccepted, 14th Apr., 1894
Improvements in Golf Clubs.
I MALCOLM DRUMMOND of no occupation, "Oakfield" Worth Crawley in the
County of Sussex England, 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 which relates to Improvements in Golf Clubs has reference more
particularly to those clubs which are made of metal of any kind and have a facing
of wood leather gutta percha or like materials, and has for its object to be a club
which shall be practically unbreakable and at the same time have the advantages
of a club made of wood gutta percha or other like material, having also if preferred
the advantage by means of the moveable and adjustable weight at the back of the
club of allowing the balance of the club to be altered at will by moving the said
weight either forwards or backwards. The head of the club is of metal in one piece
Fig. "1 A" continuous with the neck and socket into which the shaft Fig. "1 B"
is fixed. In form and shape it is similar to any ordinary wooden club. The head
of the club is hollow and open only at the face, the metal being continuous above,
below, and at the sides excepting only the front, the metal thus forming a casing
enclosing the cavity shewn in Fig. "1 AA." Into the said cavity is driven and
fixed by screws or pins, a core of wood shewn in Figure "3 D" and Fig. "4 D "
having the grain of the wood running across the head in a direction at right angles
with the surface of the face Figs. 2. 3 & 4 C. The said cavity may be wholly
filled with wood or the wood may be partly cut away and the space thus left be
filled with gutta percha celluloid or like material extending to and forming the face
Figs. 2. 3 & 4 C. The gutta percha is fixed to the wood by being forced into holes
bored in the wood in a slanting direction as shewn in Figs. 3 & 4 C or as with any
other like material by screws or pegs. In the metal at the back of the club head
is bored lengthwise a circular hole Figs. "3 & 4 T" in which is cut a screw thread
as shewn in section Fig. "5 T" into this hole is inserted a metal weight in the
form of a screw Fig. "5 W" fitting the thread. By means of a groove cut at each
end of the weight it may be moved in either direction by turning as with an
ordinary screw and it is kept in position by means of a screw washer at each end
Fig. 5 K K.
I do not limit myself to this method of arranging the balance of the club which
may be effected by reducing the thickness and weight of the metal at either end of
the head, or by inserting lead into cavities bored for the purpose. A piece of horn
celluloid or like material is preferably fixed to the metal at the base of the front of
the head by screws or pegs as shewn in Figs. "3 & 4 H." The shaft Figs. "1 & 3 B"
is fixed in the socket Fig. "1 A" in a hole cut preferably hexagonal as shewn in
Fig. "3 B" or bored round either straight or conical. My invention is applicable
to any clubs made of any metal as iron steel gun metal aluminium bronze or other
alloy of aluminium.
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
1. The improvements in golf clubs of a metal head shaped like an ordinary

page_text: 2. With moveable and adjustable balance weight substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of March 1894
MALCOLM DRUMMOND,
Oakfield, Worth, Crawley, Sussex.