Weight adjustor assembly

• US 4,008,896 A
• Filed: 07/10/1975
• Issued: 02/22/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ambrose L. Gordos
• Original Assignee: Ambrose L. Gordos
• Inventors: Gordos, Ambrose L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US05/594,635
• Time in Patent Office: 593 Days
• Field of Search: 273/32 R, 273/32 A, 273/32 D, 273/77 R, 273/162 R, 273/167 R, 273/167 F, 273/171, 273/172, 273/81 A, 273/73 J, 273/174, 224/5 C, 224/5 D, 224/21, 224/26 R, 221/64, 221/69, 221/307-310
• US Class Current: 473/336
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0462 characterised by tapering thickness of the impact face plate
• 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 weight adjustor assembly that includes an elongate tube of a resilient material that has first and second ends, and the tube capable of being removably disposed in an elongate cavity in the club head that is substantially parallel to the ball striking surface of the head. The tube has first radial openings adjacent the ends thereof. A number of longitudinally spaced, radial, second openings are defined in the tube that are transversely aligned with third radial openings. Rigid weight balls, each of a fourth diameter greater than that of the second openings, can be forced radially through the second opening into the bore of the tube to be frictionally gripped by the latter and occupy a fixed longitudinal position therein. A closure removably engages the head to close the cavity to maintain the weight adjuster within the confines of the latter. A tool is included as a part of the assembly, which tool has a pin and hook formed as an integral part thereof. The hook may removably engage one of the first openings to slidably remove a tube and weighted ball contained therein from the club head. The pin of the tool may be moved radially through the third openings to force unwanted weight balls from within the confines of the tube through the second openings to the exterior thereof.

Claims

1. A weight adjuster assembly for use on a golf club head having an elongate cavity therein that is substantially parallel to the striking surface of said head and a closure that removably engages the free end of said cavity, said weight adjuster assembly including:

a. an elongate tube of a resilient material of such length and external diameter as to fit snugly within said cavity when the latter is closed by said closure, said tube having a longitudinal bore of a first diameter therein, said tube having first and second ends, at least one radial first opening adjacent said first end of said tube, a plurality of longitudinally spaced second radial openings of a second diameter in said tube, and a plurality of third radial openings of a third diameter in said tube that are transversely aligned with said second openings;

b. a plurality of rigid weight balls, each of said balls of a fourth diameter that is greater than said first and second diameters, and said weight balls capable of being forced inwardly through said second openings into said bore to be frictionally gripped by said resilient tube to occupy a fixed longitudinal position therein; and

c. a tool that includes a curved member, an elongate pin secured to said curved member, said hook when said closure is removed from said head capable of engaging said first opening to permit said weight adjuster to be withdrawn from said cavity, and said pin after said weight adjuster is removed from said cavity capable of being moved radially through said third openings to force unwanted of said weight balls from said bore outwardly through said second openings.

2. A weight adjuster assembly as defined in claim 1 in which said tube is formed from a polymerized resin.

3. A weight adjuster assembly as defined in claim 1 which also includes a first radial opening adjacent said second end of said tube.