Golf club including soft metal to lock grooved shaft end to head

• US 3,191,936 A
• Filed: 04/11/1962
• Issued: 06/29/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William Guier
• Original Assignee: William Guier
• Inventors: Guier, William
• Application Number:
  US04/186,732
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• US Class Current: 473/313
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/007 Putters
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/10 Details of socket shapes
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/69 Redundant disconnection blocking means

Claims

3. A GOLF CLUB CONSTRUCTION, INCLUDING:

AN ELONGATED BLADE OF UNITARY STRUCTURE HAVING, A FIRST HOLE EXTENDING VERTICALLY DOWN INTO THE BODY BLADE AT A POINT INTERMEDIATE ITS ENDS, AND A SECOND HOLE IN THE BLADE EXTENDING TRANSVERSE THE FIRST HOLE AND CONNECTING WITH THE FIRST HOLE;

A SHAFT HAVING AN ELONGATED NECK PORTION ATTACHED TO ONE END OF THE SHAFT WITH THE FREE END OF THE NECK PORTION SIZED TO EXTEND DOWN INTO THE FIRST HOLE OF THE BLADE;

A GROOVE IN THE NECK END EXTENDING DOWN INTO THE FIRST HOLE;

AND A BODY OF METAL WHICH IS SOFT RELATIVE TO THE METAL OF THE NECK PORTION AND WHICH IS POSITIONED IN THE SECOND HOLE WITH A PORTION OF THE SOFT METAL FORCED INTO THE GROOVE OF THE NECK IN ORDER TO ANCHOR THE NECK PORTION OF THE SHAFT TO THE BLADE.