Golf drive metering apparatus

• US 3,182,508 A
• Filed: 05/22/1962
• Issued: 05/11/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nicholas Varju
• Original Assignee: Nicholas Varju
• Inventors: NICHOLAS VARJU
• Application Number:
  US04/196,654
• Time in Patent Office: 1,085 Days
• US Class Current: 473/223
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/22 Ergometry; Measuring muscular strength or the force of a muscular blow exercising apparatus A63B21/00 ; measuring of work or force in general G01L

Claims

2. AN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING A SIGNAL CURRENT ADAPTED FOR MEASURING A GOLF DRIVE COMPRISING:

(A) A GOLF CLUB HAVING A HEAD PROVIDING A STRIKING FACE AND A CAVITY DISPOSED INWARDLY FROM THE STRIKING FACE;

(B) A FLAT TAB-LIKE ELEMENT;

(C) A SUPPORT FIXED TO ONE END OF THE ELEMENTS AND TO THE HEAD TO DISPOSE THE ELEMENT INSIDE SAID CAVITY WITH THE FLAT SIDES OF THE ELEMEMT APPROXIMATELY PARALLEL TO SAID STRIKING FACE;

THE SURFACES DEFINING SAID CAVITY BEING SPACED FROM SAID ELEMENT TO PROVIDE FREE ELASTIC DEFLECTION OF THE ELEMENT IN RESPONSE TO IMPACT FORCES NORMAL TO GOLF PLAY SUSTAINED BY THE HEAD;

(D) A SERPENTINE ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE, ELECTRICALLYINSULATED FILAMENT ATTACHED TO ONE FACE OF THE ELEMENT AND FORMED IN CONVOLUTIONS EXTENDING IN A DIRECTION TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE POINT OF ATTACHMENT OF THE ELEMENT TO THE SUPPORT;

AND (E) AN ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT INCLUDING A CONSTANT VOLTAGE ENERGY SOURCE AND SAID FILAMENT WHEREIN DEFLECTION OF SAID ELEMENT AND SAID CONVOLUTIONS TOWARD SAID STRIKING FACE EFFECTS VARIATIONS OF CURRENT IN SAID CIRCUIT.