Metal wood club

• US 10,695,626 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2019
• Issued: 06/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acushnet Company (FILA Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Acushnet Company (FILA Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Bennett, Thomas Orrin, Sanchez, Richard, Soracco, Peter, Cleghorn, Richard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blau, Stephen L
• Application Number:
  US16/432,795
• Publication Number:
  US 20190290976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 391 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0495 moving on impact, slidable, spring or otherwise elastically biased
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/02 with reinforcing fibres, e.g. carbon, polyamide fibres
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/08 magnetic
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0408 characterised by specific dimensions, e.g. thickness
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/045 Strengthening ribs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0487 for putters A63B53/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence

Abstract

A golf club head comprising a body, wherein the body comprises a cavity, wherein the cavity comprises an open end and a terminal end, the terminal end opposite the open end, an elongate weighted insert configured to reside in the cavity, the weighted insert having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein the cavity is configured to receive the weighted insert through the open end, a head locking feature located at the open end of the cavity, an insert locking member comprising an insert locking feature configured to engage the head locking feature and lock the weighted insert in the cavity.

Claims

1. A golf club head comprising:

a body having a face;

said body having a coordinate system with an x-axis located horizontal to the club face, a y-axis located vertical to the club face, and a z-axis located through the club face;

wherein said body comprises a cavity;

wherein said cavity comprises an open end and a terminal end, said terminal end opposite said open end;

an elongate weighted insert configured to reside in said cavity, said weighted insert having a first end and a second end opposite said first end;

wherein said cavity is configured to receive said weighted insert through said open end in both a first orientation where said first end is adjacent said terminal end of said cavity and a second orientation where said second end is adjacent said terminal end of said cavity; and

a removable weight member configured to be removably affixed to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert;

wherein said removable weight member is magnetically attracted to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert; and

a golf club head center of gravity shiftable between three locations in said golf club head depending on the orientation of said weighted insert and the location of said removable weight on said weight insert.

2. The golf club head of claim 1, wherein said weighted insert comprises a tube member, a heavy member affixed to said tube member, said heavy member located at said first end of said weighted insert, and a lightweight member affixed to said tube member, said lightweight member located at a second end of said weighted insert, opposite said first end, wherein said heavy member has a mass greater than a mass of said lightweight member, wherein said lightweight member and said heavy member are each configured to receive said removable weight member.

3. The golf club head of claim 2, wherein said lightweight member comprises a ferromagnetic insert.

4. The golf club head of claim 1, wherein said weighted insert has a biased weighted insert center of gravity location when said removable weight member is removably affixed to said first end of said weighted insert and said weighted insert has a neutral weighted insert center of gravity location, within 1 millimeter of a center of said weighted insert, when said removable weight member is removably affixed to said second end of said weighted insert.

5. The golf club head of claim 1, wherein said elongate weighted insert has a length between about 50 mm to 100 mm.

6. The golf club head of claim 1, wherein said golf club head center of gravity is shiftable along said x-axis.

7. The golf club head of claim 1, wherein said golf club head center of gravity is simultaneously shiftable along said x-axis and said z-axis.

8. A golf club head comprising:

a body having a face;

said body having a coordinate system with an x-axis located horizontal to the club face, a y-axis located vertical to the club face, and a z-axis located through the club face;

wherein said body comprises a cavity;

wherein said cavity comprises an open end and a terminal end, said terminal end opposite said open end;

an elongate weighted insert configured to reside in said cavity, said weighted insert having a first end and a second end opposite said first end;

wherein said cavity is configured to receive said weighted insert through said open end in both a first orientation where said first end is adjacent said terminal end of said cavity and a second orientation where said second end is adjacent said terminal end of said cavity; and

a removable weight member configured to be removably affixed to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert when said weighted insert is not within said cavity; and

a golf club head center of gravity shiftable between three locations in said golf club head depending on the orientation of said weighted insert and the location of said removable weight on said weight insert.

9. The golf club head of claim 8, wherein said removable weight member is magnetically attracted to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert.

10. The golf club head of claim 8, wherein said weighted insert has a biased weighted insert center of gravity location when said removable weight member is removably affixed to said first end of said weighted insert and said weighted insert has a neutral weighted insert center of gravity location, within 1 millimeter of a center of said weighted insert, when said removable weight member is removably affixed to said second end of said weighted insert.

11. The golf club head of claim 8, wherein said elongate weighted insert has a length between about 50 mm to 100 mm.

12. The golf club head of claim 8, wherein said golf club head center of gravity is shiftable along said x-axis.

13. The golf club head of claim 8, wherein said golf club head center of gravity is simultaneously shiftable along said x-axis and said z-axis.