US1026181A - Golf-club. - Google Patents

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C. H. SEELY.

, 12. 1,026 181 Patented May 14, 1912.

. WITN ESSES:

w Oma ATTORNE CHARLES H. SEELY, OF NOROTON, CONNECTICUT.

GOLF-CLUB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patcnted May 14, 1912.

Application filed January 19, 1912. Serial No. 672,203.

To aZZ whom 1' t may concem Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SEELY, a citizen of the United States, residing at N oroton, Fairfield county, Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Golf-Clubs; and I do declare the :following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to golf clubs and has for its Objects, to improve the balance of the club, to throw a relatively larger portion of the weight of the head nearer the medial line of the striking face thereof, to lighten the shank of the head, and to so secure the shaft to such shank as to insure a resiliency at a location near the head itself, and with these ends in view my invention consists in certain details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claims which conclude.

this description.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view illnstrating a golf club constrncted in accordance with my improvement the shaft being broken away Fig. 2 a detail perspective of the head of such elub-Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal section of the club head, and Fig. 4 a detail broken View of the lower portion of the shaft.

Similar numerals of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

Heretofore, golf clubs of all descriptions have sometimes been made with hosen of more or less lengths, a wooden club having a short hose to a'ft'ord a Socket for the insertion of the bottom of the shaft, while the hose of an iron club was considerably longer and likewise afforded a soeket for the insertion of the lower end of the shaft.

The length andweight of the shafts of golf clubs, and also the weight of the heads of such clubs, do not Vary materially because they are standardized, so to speak, but very little, if any, attention has been paid to the relative distribution of weight between the hosen and the heads of the clubs. Also, due attention being given to the general Strength of the club, nothing has been accomplished in the way of constructing the hosen in such manner that they shall possess a certain degree of resiliency, whereby the head will yielcl slightly to the impact against a ball and instantly recover so as to add oonsiderably to the driving distance of such club.

My invcntion aims toward thc perfection of gcflf clubs in the above named particulars and will be best understood from the following description.

1 represents the blade of an ordinary iron club and 2 the striking face thereof. The hose of the club is divided so as to form two spaced vertically disposed resilient tangs, 3, t, which preferably diverge from the bottom upward and may be tapered according to the amount and location of resiliency desired.

The spacing between the tangs 3, 4, is preferably continued downwardly through the heel of the club as seen at 5, in Fig. 3, and the shaft G of the club has its lower portion 7 slightly tapered as usual so as to fit snugly between the tangs 3, 4, the extreme lower end of the shaft having an enlargement 9 which fits within the Opening 5 in the blade of the club, said shaft being secured in position by means of rivets 8 driven through the tangs and the portion 7.

If desired, in order to afford a more finished appearance, the usual winding may be et'fectcd around the tangs 3, 4, and the lower end of the shaft.

Of course the Opening 5 need not extend Clear through to the bottom edge of the blade, and also such Opening may extencl as far forward of the blade as may be deemed desirable.

The mere addition of wooden faces to the front and rear faces of the blade 2 would transform an iron club into what is known in golf circles as a Driver or a Brassie By forming the hose as is shown in the drawing, the shank portion of the club is made considerably lighter than the ordinary hose of an iron club, and this will increase the proportion of the weight of the blade as compared with the weight of the hose, which is greatly to be desired. Furthermore, the club will possess a resiliency at the tang portion, and this resiliency may be localized along said tangs according to the nature of the taper of the latter; for instance, a taper such as is shown in the drawing will throw the resiliency higher up on the tang than would a taper of such tangs in a reverse direction, that is to say, a taper caused by making the tangs wider at the tops and narrower at the bottoms.

I do not wish to be limited to any particular manner of forming this taper, since the gst of my inventon resides in the broad idea of providing a golf club with upwardly extendng spaoed resilent metal tangs, between which the lower end of the shaftmay be secured.

Having thus described my nvention what I claim as new and desire to Secure by Letters Patent is 1. A golf club, comprisng a blade or head, spaced resilient metal tangs extendng vertically from the heel of said blade or head, and a shaft whose lower extremity is inserted between said tangs and secured thereto.

2. A golf club, oomprising a blade or head, a par of spaced resilient diverging and tapered metal tangs extendng Vertically from the heel of said blade or head, the space between said tangs being contnued down through the heel of said club to the bottom edge thereof, a shaft whose lower extremty is' nserted within said space so as to be embraeed on two opposite sides only by said tangs and means for securing said shaft and tangs together.

In testmony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

CHARLES H. SEELY. lVtnesses:

F. VV. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN.

Gopies of this patent may be obtaned for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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