Improved Golf Club Head.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Golf Club Head.
I, WILLIAM CURRIE Junr. 6 Strathearn Road Edinburgh Scotland, India
Rubber Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My improved golf club head consists of a hollow head made of vulcanite, celluloid
or wood, made the same shape as the wooden heads are made at present, and con-
taining inside, india rubber, balata or gutta percha.
I prefer to vulcanise the india rubber, balata, or gutta percha but it is optional,
also I prefer to add to the india rubber, balata or gutta percha one or more of the
following substances ground cork, sawdust, wood pulp, rags asbestos or any pigment,
but it is not absolutely necessary.
The vulcanite, celluloid, or wood forms a kind of mould open in the face, of the
head, which is then filled up with the composition above described, so that in
playing with the head the ball is hit by the composition.
I do not confine myself to any shape of head but will use that shape I find best.
To fix the head on to the shaft, I prefer for wooden heads as above described to fix
them on as they are fixed on at present namely by tying. In the case of vulcanite
& celluloid I prefer to fix the head as above described to the shaft by means of a.
socket forming part of the head, similar to the socket forming part of club and
iron heads.
I do not confine myself to these methods of fixing the head to the wooden shaft
but will use the method I find best.
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WILLIAM CURRIE, JUNR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Golf Club Head.
1, WILLIAM CURRIE, Junior, of 6, Strathearn Road, Edinburgh in the County
of Edinburgh, India-rubber Manufacturer 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 golf clubs which are used in playing the game of golf,
and relates to improvements on the wooden headed clubs hitherto in use.
The invention consists essentially of a vulcanite, celluloid, or wooden head made
hollow or with a portion cut away at the playing side or face or intermediate
portion of the head and replaced by an elastic composition or cushion with or
without a vulcanite, celluloid, wooden, or metal face.
It will be fully described with reference to the annexed drawings in which
Fig. 1 side elevation of playing side or face of head.
Fig. 2 plan.
Fig. 3 end elevation.
Fig. 4 end elevation of modification of my invention.
Fig. 5 plan of same.
In carrying out my invention I take a vulcanite, celluloid or wooden head of
the ordinary form and cut away a portion of the material forming the head at
the playing side A as shown by Figs. 1 to 3 or from the central part of the
head as shown by Figs. 4 & 5 at B. I replace the portion cut away by an
elastic composition of vulcanised or unvulcanised india rubber, balata or gutta

page_text: percha or mixture of them mixed or not as desired by the addition of one or
more such substances or materials as ground or granulated cork, sawdust, wood
pulp, rags, asbestos or the like or any of the usual pigments known to com-
merce though neither the substances named or the pigments are absolutely
essential.
In Fig. 1 to 3 the portion cut away at A may be filled up with a solid
piece of composition a alone or a layer of soft or more spongy composition
may be placed in the space with an outer layer of more rigid composition or a
vulcanite celluloid or wooden facc. In some CASCS I should prefer to put a
metal face on the playing side as is done at present. The composition may be
fixed to the head in any suitable manner such as by cementing or the head may
be formed hollow or grooved as shown by the dotted or broken lines a¹ in
Fig. 4 and the composition run therein.
In Figs. 4 and 5 a head is shown with a portion of the material cut away
near the centre and the space filled up with the elastic composition. In this
case the face or playing side of the head is the same as before cutting but with
the advantage that the head will spring and rebound on the golf-ball being
struck by the club.
It will be obvious that the same result may be obtained in many ways
without departing from the essential feature of the invention such as by simply
making a groove or grooves in an ordinary wooden head and filling it or them
with composition. And in the case of very light clubs no portion need be cut
away or grooves formed in the head at all but simply a strip of elastic com-
position fixed to the head.
The head may be attached to the wooden handle C in or by any of the methods
employed by golf-club makers.
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. A golf-club head having a portion cut away and replaced by a strip or layer
of elastic composition substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. A golf-club head with a portion cut away and replaced by a layer of elastic
composition and a vulcanite celluloid wooden or metal face substantially as
described.
3. A golf-club head constructed substantially as described and shown either with
reference to Fig. 1 to 3 or Figs. 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of February 1892.
P. pro EMMOTT & CO., LIMITED,
Robert Wood, Secretary,
2, New Bridge Street, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.