US895476A - Golf-ball. - Google Patents

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PTENTED A UG. l1, 1908. H. C. LEE.

GULF BALLJ AE'LIUATION PILEDlAUG/ 1l, 1502.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF-TCE.

KEMPSHALL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, Y., A CORPORATION OF-NEW JERSEY.

i GOLF-BALL.

No..aes,47s.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Application tiled August 11, 1902. 'Serial No. 119,198.

of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Golf-Balls, of which the fol owing is 'a specification.

. This invention relates to golf balls, and its object is to produce at low cost a ball having excellent flying qualit-ies and not unduly sensitive to a ligh't blow.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view, partl in section, of a ball made in accordance-wit my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the preferred form of centerpiece.' F ig.'3 shows the Fig. 2 device overwound with twine. Fiv. 4 shows the Fig. 3 device after the'appxlication of `gutta-pereha thereto; Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional segment of the all. Fig. 6 shows a lenvth of helical wire sprinv used in forming tlie centerpiece of the ball.

In the several views, similar parts are designated by similar characters of reference.

I coil or wind up in miscellaneous directions a len t. of helical wire spring 1, ref- 4 erably stee to form a centerpiece A, w iieh is highly resilient. This centerpiece I bind with numerous windin rs of coarse twine 2 or other tough materia preferably fibrous, but softer than the wire 1, forming a ball B, Fig. 3. The numerous large and small interstices in the outer portion of the latter I till with plastic material 3, such as gu'ttaperche., making a ball C. The gotta-perche4 may be applied by dipping the ball into a is increased.

solution of the material, or gutta-pereha may be heated and forced or otherwise worked into the meshes of the windings 2.

.Upon the filling (l I apply a wear-resisting cover I) of gutta-pcrcha thus completing the golf ball. The guttaercha of the cover unites to the uutta-perc ia filling 3 of the twine' ball, so hat the strength of the cover lf desired, suilicient g'uttaperche inav be a plied u ion the windings of twine 2 to form t ie shell i), which may thereafter be shaped ii. a press.

1llie'windings of twine 2 preferably bind tightl upon the centerpiece A, and it will be seen that the mass' of springs under such confinement becomes a material factor in contributing to the flight of the ball under a heavy blow; while owing to the presence of the windings of twine 2 the ball is inactive under a light blow, and more so because of the presence of the gdttaercha 3 throughout said windings, especia ly since this portion of gutta-percha is efl'ectually united to the outer gotta-percha cover or shell D.

It will be seen that the ball comprises an open-work or cellular spring central structure A, overwound withA material which by preference is substantially unyieldinv in longitudinal direction; that thc hard lillin Y or HARRY C. LEE, OF RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO THE core illustrated at. Fig. 3 is treated with p astic material 3, to which the cover D adheres or joins, said material 3 having an allinity for l the inaterial'of said cover.

Variations may bc resorted to within the scope of my improvements.

Having` described my invention, I claim- 1. A playing ball comprising windings of helical wire spring, and a cover of wear-resisting material.

2. A playing ball comprising windings o f helical wire. spring, land a cover of guttapercha.

3. A playing ball comprising a sphere of helical wire springs wound in miscellaneous directions, binding material n pon said sphere., and a gutta-percha cover.

A. A playing ball comprising a s )here of helical wire springs wound in miscellaneous directions, binding material upon said sphere, gutta-percha filling the interstices in said windings, and a guita-perche. cover.

springs, and a cover of plastic material 100 mounted thereon.

HARRY (LLEE.

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F. W. BAHNACLO, C.. 1-. ll.\eiso.

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