Improvements in Golf Clubs.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Oct., 1897
Improvements in Golf Clubs.
We, ARTHUR PICTON SAUNDERS-DAVIES of Pentre in the County of Pembroke
Wales Esquire and BERNARD SAYERS of 89 High Street, North Berwick, Scotland,
Professional Golfer, 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 has for its object to provide a golf club which is more effective
and which will drive to a greater distance, than is the case with golf clubs as
ordinarily made.
This invention is more especially useful for "drivers," "Brassys," "middle
spoons," cleeks, and the like; but it is applicable to golf clubs generally.
According to this invention the thickness of the upper end, or grip portion,
of the shaft of the club is reduced and there are applied thereto strips of cane,
to bring the grip up to the requisite thickness and shape.
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It is preferred to reduce the said upper end, or grip portion, so that it tapers
gradually to the top, and to make the cane portions applied thereto of reversely
inclined shape, to fit against the reduced tapered upper end. The cane may be
secured to the tapered upper end by means of glue, or other cement, and a "serving
of waxed thread may be wound around the whole of the grip portion so formed,
and over this may be applied the usual "serving" of leather; but the invention
is not limited to the way in which the cane and tapered upper end of the shaft are
secured together, nor to any particular way of covering the grip portion.
The accompanying drawing represents a grip portion, or upper end, of a golf
club shaft, made in accordance with this invention.
Figure 1 is a vertical section on the line 1, 2, Figure 2, and Figure 2 is a plan of
the top end. The Figures beneath are transverse sections on the dot-and-pick lines,
passing through each, and through Figure 1.
The upper end only of the shaft A, is shewn. The part a, or grip portion, is
reduced, or tapered, gradually to the top end 2, and to each side is applied a piece
of cane reversely tapered. The piece of cane so applied to one side is marked B,
whilst the piece of cane similarly applied to the other side is marked B². The cane
portions B B³, may be secured to the part a, by glue, or other cement, or in any
other suitable way, and the grip portion may then be covered by a 'serving
of waxed thread and afterwards with a serving" of leather, or it may be finished
in any other usual, or suitable, manner.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A golf club having the upper end, or grip portion, of the shaft, reduced, and
the requisite thickness for the grip portion made by the application of cane sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A golf club having the upper end, or grip portion, tapered gradually from the

page_text: lower part to the upper end on both sides and reversely tapered pieces of cane
applied thereto, substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of Sentember 1897
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.