Golf Putter Apparatus With Floating Face Weighted Head

• US 20100261546A1
• Filed: 04/06/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Harry Nicodem
• Original Assignee: Harry Nicodem
• Inventors: Nicodem, Harry E.
• Application Number:
  US12/755,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20100261546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/340
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0416 Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0487 for putters A63B53/065 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a novel golf putter having a novel head, which is made up of a strike plate, a body, and at least one connecting element. The connecting element is positioned with a spacing element so that the strike plate does not make direct contact with the body when the putter is used to strike a golf ball. As such, during the striking of the golf ball with the strike plate of the novel putter, kinetic energy is transferred from the strike plate to the body via the connecting element and the spacing element, and the energy is transferred in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the plane of the face of the strike plate.

Claims

1. A novel golf putter for improving the dynamic response sensed by a golfer when putting a golf ball, comprising:

a golf club shaft, a hosel and a golf club head, said golf club head being connected to said golf club shaft at each end of said hosel;

said golf club head comprising a first strike plate and a body, said body having a cavity;

said first strike plate containing a first strike face and a protrusion, said first strike face and said protrusion being located at opposite ends of the first strike plate;

said first strike plate being connected to said body by a first set of at least one fastener such that said protrusion on said first strike plate extends into said cavity in the body, and said first strike plate does not make direct contact with said body, such that when said first strike face makes contact with said golf ball, the energy transmitted to the first strike plate will be in the direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the first strike face.

2. The novel golf putter in claim 1, wherein said each of said first set of at least one fastener comprises a connecting element and a spacing element.

3. The novel golf putter in claim 2, wherein said connecting element is a screw.

4. The novel golf putter in claim 2, wherein said spacing element is an O-ring.

5. The novel golf putter in claim 1, wherein said cavity in said body runs completely from one end of the body to the other end of the body and said protrusion can be viewed from the side opposite the first strike plate on the golf putter.

6. The novel golf putter in claim 1, further comprising a second strike face, a second strike plate, and a second set of at least one fastener, said second strike plate and second strike face being located at the end of the body opposite the first strike plate and the first strike face, said second strike plate being connected to said body by said second set of at least one fastener, such that said second strike plate extends into said cavity in the body, and said second strike plate does not make direct contact with said body, such that when said second strike face makes contact with said golf ball, the energy transmitted to the second strike plate will be in the direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the second strike face, such that the novel golf putter may be used by both right-handed and left-handed golfers.

7. The novel golf putter in claim 1, wherein said cavity in said body does not run from one end of the body to the other end of the body and said protrusion is completely enclosed inside the body and cannot be viewed from outside the body.

8. The novel golf putter in claim 1, wherein when said first strike face makes contact with said golf ball, the energy transmitted to the first strike plate will be in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the first strike face.

9. The novel golf putter in claim 6, wherein when said second strike face makes contact with said golf ball, the energy transmitted to the second strike plate will be in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the second strike face.