US1235922A - Golf-club. - Google Patents

Description

G. F. PITTAR.

GOLF CLUB.

APPLICATION FILED 8.15.1915.

1,235,922 Patented Aug. 7, 1917.

= Y cannon GOLF-CLUB.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented Aug. a, rear.

Application filed February 15, 1915. Serial No. 8,287.

To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known that T, GEORGE FRANoIs P11- TAR, a subject of the King of England, residing at Wimbledon, Surrey, England, have invented certain new. and useful Tmprovements in Golf-Clubs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to golf clubs provided with heads made wholly or partly of metal and in such a manner that the blade, or part striking the ball, is separate from the shaft socket, and adapted to be turned and retained in various angular positions.

In a club of this description it is desirable to have thorough rigidity, combined with ready adjustability for swiveling the blade to any degree of angle, to suit the requirements of play for various strokes, so as to serve, with one club, the purposes ofseveral clubs as usually made, such as those known as, putters, mashies, lofters, cleeks, drivers, jiggers, niblicks spoons, and the like; and for left-hand play in emergencies.

Tn constructing a golf club according to my present invention, 1 provide the end socket with an eye, whicheye is furnished at one side with a' spherically hollowed-out portion, which is roughened or lmurled, and on the other side with a spherically projecting portion, which is also roughened or knurled. This eye is circular where it opens into the spherically hollowed-out portion thereof, but is prolonged on the other side into a tapering elliptical or oval slot, the longer axis of the ellipse or oval being in a plane passing through the axis of the shaft. The blade is provided with a spherical heel portion corresponding with the hollowed-out portion in the eye, and roughened or knurled.

A screw-threaded stem is furnished to the blade, adapted to pass through the eye, and

. relation to theaxis of the shaft, thus ena- .bling a suitable adjustment to be made for the difi'erent angles of the blade to the shaft,

' in drivers as compared with irons, putters, and the like.

And in order that my said invention may be clearly understood, T will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing accompanying this specification, which shows a club constructed according to my said invention.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, showing the blade in position.

longer axis of the ellipse being in the plane passing through the axis of the shaft. The portion A at the back of the eye is of convex spherical form, and is roughened or knurled.

B is the blade, which is provided with a spherical heel, corresponding with the spherical surface A in the eye, and which .is roughened, a screw-threaded stem B adapted to pass through the eye and to rotate therein and to be set at various inclinations with respect to the axis of the shaft,

the pin B moving in the elliptical slot. D is a washer having a hollow spherical portion adapted to fit over the spherical part A on the eye, and a flattened portion at the back, and C is a nut.

With this construction, as will be perfectly obvious, it is simply necessary, in order to adjust the blade with respect to the axis of the shaft, or to turn the blade, to loosen the nut C, bring the blade in the required position, when, on tightening up the nut, 'it will be held perfectly secure.

The nut C and washer D are shown at Fig. l in the mid-position in full lines, the extreme positions being indicated in dotted lines.

Any turning moment on the blade simply tends to tighten the nut and does not cause the parts to work loose.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the United States of Amerlca 1s In a golf club, the combination of an end socket provided with an eye, the said eye comprising a spherically hollowed-out roughened portion having a circular hole at the bottom and an elliptical slot tapering outward from the said hole, the major axis of the ellipse being in the same plane as that containing the axis of the socket, a spherically convex roughened portion surrounding the elliptical opening of the slot: a blade having a spherical heel portion with a roughened surface, such spherical heel portion corresponding to the spherically hollowed-out portion of the eye, a screwthreaded stem to the said blade adapted to pass through the hole and the elliptical slot,

a Washer providediwith a hollow spherical 15 portion adapted to fit over the spherical projecting portion around the elliptical-slot and having a flat portion at the outside, and a nut adapted to screw on to the end of the screw-threaded stem, all substantially as and 20 for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnewes.

GEORGE FRANCIS PITTAR.

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