[ A New or Improved Device for use in connection with Golf Clubs.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[ A New or Improved Device for use in connection with Golf Clubs.
I, CATHERINE DOROTHEA BOGLE, of 56, Vanburgh Park, Blackheath, London,
S.E., no calling, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved device for use in connection with
golf clubs, and consists of a simple contrivance designed to be secured to the
extremity of the shaft or handle thereof with the object of enabling golf balls to
be readily gripped and lifted from the holes on the putting greens, and which
will be found of particular service to elderly persons and others who are disinclined
to stoop or who are inconvenienced thereby.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, this improved device is pre-
ferably formed out of a plate or sheet of thin springy metal. This plate or sheet
is so cut or shaped as to produce preferably eight radial arms four of which, taking
them alternately, are bent back in one direction to form a spring clip by means
of which the device may be secured to the extremity of the shaft or handle of
the golf club, while the other four arms are given a slight curve and bent in the
opposite direction so that when pressed over a golf ball they sufficiently grip it
for the purpose of allowing the balls to be raised out of the hole or from off the
ground by raising the club.
It is not essential that the spring lifting device should be secured to the
extremity of the shaft or handle of the club by means of a spring clip as herein-
before described, as it may be secured in place in any other convenient and suit-
able manner.
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CASSELL & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, CATHERINE DOROTHEA BOGLE, of 56, Vanburgh Park, Blackheath, London,
S.E., no calling, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what man-
ner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a new or improved device for use in connection with
golf clubs, and consists of a simple contrivance designed to be secured to the
extremity of the shaft or handle thereof with the object of enabling golf balls to
be readily gripped and lifted from the holes on the putting greens, and which

page_text: will be found of particular service to elderly persons and others who are disinclined
to stoop or who are inconvenienced thereby.
In carrying this invention into practical effect this improved device is pre-
ferably formed out of a plate or sheet of thin springy metal. This plate or sheet
is so cut or shaped as to produce preferably eight radial arms four of which, taking
them alternately, are bent back in one direction to form a spring clip by means
of which the device may be secured to the extremity of the shaft or handle of
the golf club, while the other four arms are given a slight curve and bent in the
opposite direction so that when pressed over a golf ball they sufficiently grip it
for the purpose of allowing the balls to be raised out of the hole or from off the
ground by raising the club. According to a modified form of this invention the
device may be formed out of a sufficient length of tubing as hereinafter set forth.
It is not essential that the spring lifting device should be secured to the
extremity of the shaft or handle of the club by means of a spring clip as herein-
before described, as it may be secured in place in any other convenient and suit-
able manner.
In order that this invention may be more fully understood I will now proceed
to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a plan of the shaped metal plate out of which the device is formed.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the complete device or clip.
Fig. 3 is a side view of a metal sleeve cut for form- the device or clip, and,
Fig. 4 is a corresponding view of the device or clip formed therefrom.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several
views.
In carrying this invention into practical effect, and in forming the device from
a sheet of metal or suitable springy material, the plate or sheet is cut or shaped
so as to form preferably eight radial arms, the four arms a being bent in an up-
ward direction as shewn (Fig. 2) so as to form a spring clip for securing the
device to the extremity of the handle or shaft of a golf club, while the four inter-
mediate arms a are bent down in the opposite direction and sufficiently curved
so as to form a spring clip, which, when pressed over a golf ball, will sufficiently
grip it for the purpose of allowing the ball to be raised or lifted.
In the form of construction shewn in Figs. 3 & 4, a tubular sleeve of metal or
other suitable material is employed, divided by vertical parallel slits or slots,
extending from the top of the sleeve to within a sufficient distance of the bottom,
into preferably 8 arms. Four of these arms a are retained in the upright vertical
position, so as to form a spring clip for securing the device to the extremity of
the handle or shaft of a golf club, while the intermediate arms a¹ are bent in a
downward direction and sufficiently curved as indicated in Fig. 4, so as to form
a spring clip for lifting or raising the golf ball.
In some cases the upper spring clip for securing the device to the shaft or
handle of a golf club, may be dispensed with, in which case the lower spring clip
for gripping the ball would only be employed, and this may be secured to the
extremity of the shaft or handle of the golf club in any convenient and suitable
manner.
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. The combination with a golf club, of a spring clip secured to the extremity
of the shaft or handle for raising or lifting a golf ball from the ground, substan-
tially as set forth.
2. The new or improved device for use in connection with golf clubs and for
raising or lifting golf balls, consisting of two spring clips formed by the radial
arms of a plate of thin metal or other suitable springy material, arranged and
constructed substantially as herein described and shewn with reference to Figs. 1
& 2 of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 3. The new or improved device for use in connection with golf clubs, for raising
or lifting golf balls, comprising two spring clips formed out of a tubular sleeve
of metal or other suitable material, arranged and constructed substantially as
herein described and shewn with reference to Figs. 3 & 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
h day of June 1900.
CASSELL & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agents for the Applicant.