GOLF CLUB HAVING INTEGRALLY FORMED FACE AND SOLE PLATE WITH WEIGHT MEANS

• US 3,692,306 A
• Filed: 02/18/1971
• Issued: 09/19/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cecil C. Glover
• Original Assignee: Cecil C. Glover
• Inventors: Glover, Cecil C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US05/116,460
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• Field of Search: 273/77R,80.1-80.8,167-174
• US Class Current: 473/306
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/02 Joint structures between the head and the shaft
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0416 Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0458 with non-uniform thickness of the impact face plate
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/08 with special arrangements for obtaining a variable impact
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence

Abstract

A golf club whose head is provided with a bracket having sole and face plates formed integral with each other and positioned against respective bottom sole and front face surfaces of the head, and wherein one or the other of the plates carries at least one inwardly projecting elongate tube which is embedded in the head, with weight means removably and adjustably secured in the tube.

Claims

1. A golf club having a head provided with a bottom sole surface and a front face surface extending at an angle relative to each other, a one piece metal angle bracket secured to said head and including sole and front face plates engaging the respective sole and front face surfaces of said head, at least one elongate internally threaded tube carried by and projecting inwardly from one of said plates substantially perpendicular thereto and being embedded in said head, externally threaded weight means adjustably positioned within said tube, said tube having an internally outwardly tapered outer end portion communicating with the outer surface of said one of said plates, frustoconically headed screws threadably received in the outer end portion of said tube for closing the same, said tube having means along its length on the outer surface thereof for aiding in securing the tube firmly embedded in the head, said head having an upwardly extending hosel thereon, a shaft having a lower portion positioned in said hosel, an upwardly extending projection on and integral with the rear portion of said sole plate and embedded in said head, and said projection serving as a lower hosel portion and having a threaded cavity therein in which a threaded lower end of said shaft is secured.

2. A structure according to claim 1, wherein said tube is integral with said face plate.

3. A structure according to claim 1, wherein said tube is integral with said sole plate.

4. A structure according to claim 3, including an additional tube projecting upwardly from said sole plate and embedded in said head in spaced relation from said one tube.

5. A structure according to claim 1, wherein said angle bracket is made from an alloy metal, and wherein said head is made from a plastic material.