Improvements in Cleeks, Irons, Mashes, and like Appliances used in Playing Golf.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleeks, Irons, Mashes, and like Appliances used
in Playing Golf.
I, ROBERT ANDERSON of 67 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Fishing Tackle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in cleeks, irons, mashes and like appliances
used in playing golf and has for its object to bring the striking surface nearer to
the line of the shaft so as to reduce the leverage when for example the toe of the
cleek is struck against the ball whereby the club is liable to turn and thus drive the
ball badly or out of the proper line.
I bring the chief weight of the cleek nearer to the line of the shaft by dispensing
with the ordinary neck of the cleek and fixing the end of the shaft through a hole
bored through or nearly through the middle or approximately the middle of the
length of the iron. In order to provide for the shaft hole and also to bring the weight
of iron into the desired position I form the said centre of the length of the iron at
the outer side thereof with a bulge or swollen portion through which the hole is
bored or partly bored, the bore of the hole being at the proper angle so that the iron
may be fixed to the shaft at the proper angle. By this arrangement the striking
surface is behind as well as in front of the line of the shaft whereby I obtain a
perfectly balanced head by equalizing the leverage before and behind the line of
the shaft.
Dated this 27th day of May 1899
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleeks, Irons, Mashes, and like Appliances used
in Playing Golf.
I, ROBERT ANDERSON of 67 Princes Street, Edinburgh in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Fishing Tackle 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 improvements in cleeks, irons, mashes and like appliances
used in playing golf, and has for its object to bring the striking face and the weight
of the club head nearer to the line of the shaft in order to obtain a more accurate
and powerful club.
Figure 1 is a side view of the club constructed in accordance with my said
invention.
Figure 2 is a front view and
Figure 3 is a plan of the same.
I dispense with the ordinary neck and I fix the shaft A through, or it may be
nearly through the socket formed in the bulge B at the back of the striking
face C.
By the said mounting of the shaft relatively to the striking face, the striking face
extends behind as well as in front of the line of the shaft that is to say the heel is
behind the line of the shaft whereby there is an equality of leverage at the toe and
heel whereby I obtain a more accurate driving club; and by concentrating the
weight of the club head nearer to the end and to the line of the shaft I obtain a
more powerful driving club.

page_text: The position of the socket relatively with the striking face may be varied to suit
the requirements of different players, for example the socket might be brought
nearer to the heel of the club.
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:
The improvements in cleeks, irons, mashes, and the like substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of February 1893.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.