Golf club

• US 4,283,057 A
• Filed: 09/05/1980
• Issued: 08/11/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James T. Ragan
• Original Assignee: James T. Ragan
• Inventors: Ragan, James T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US06/184,392
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 273/186 A, 273/162 R, 273/193 R, 273/194 A, 273/183 D, 46/177
• US Class Current: 473/234
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/01 Special aerodynamic features, e.g. airfoil shapes, wings or air passages
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/50 with through-holes A63B60/18 takes precedence; for stringing purposes A63B49/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3635 with sound-emitting source

Abstract

A golf club has an air flow hole through its head and the hole contains a whistle so that when the club is swung, the sound of the whistle provides an indication of the smoothness and velocity of the swing. The ambient air becomes locally turbulent at the hole'"'"'s outlet end when the head swings. A tailpipe extends from the hole'"'"'s outlet to a position where the ambient air is relatively free from such turbulence. The club head may include two whistles. The first whistle is actuated by air entering an aperture on the striking face of the club head. The second whistle is actuated by centrifugally driven air moving down the club shaft.

Claims

1. A golf club comprising a shaft, a head mounted by said shaft and formed with an air flow hole having inlet and outlet ends, a whistle in said hole and actuated by air flow through the hole, means actuated by swinging of said club for forcing air into said inlet end, said outlet end being open to the ambient air and said swinging forming localized air turbulence in the ambient air at said outlet end, and a tailpipe extending from said outlet end to a position where the ambient air is relatively free from said turbulence.

2. The golf club of claim 1 in which said means comprises said club having a front face and said inlet end positioned to open through said face so as to receive pressurized air from the ambient air compressed in front of said face by swinging of said club.

3. The golf club of claim 1 in which said means comprises said shaft being tubular and having an upper end open to the ambient air and a lower end connected to said inlet end so as to receive pressurized air centrifugally driven from said shaft by swinging of said club.

4. The golf club of claim 2 in which said hole extends through said head from its said face to its back and said tailpipe extends from said back in axial alignment with said hole.

5. The golf club of claim 3 in which said hole extends from its said inlet end to which the shaft'"'"'s said lower end is connected, transversely through said head with the hole'"'"'s said outlet opening through the side of said head opposite to said shaft, said tailpipe extending from said outlet end in axial alignment with said hole.

6. The golf club of claim 2 in which said head has a second hole having inlet and outlet ends and containing a whistle actuated by air flow through said second hole, said shaft being tubular and having an upper end open to the ambient air and a lower end connected to the second hole'"'"'s said inlet end so as to receive pressurized air centrifugally driven from said shaft by swinging of said club, said second hole extending through said head transversely and at a different level with respect to the first-named hole, the second hole'"'"'s said outlet end being open to the ambient air.

7. The golf club of claim 6 in which said localized turbulence is also formed at the second hole'"'"'s said outlet end and a tailpipe extends from the latter to a position where the ambient air is relatively free from said turbulence.