Golf club heads with adjustable weighting

• US 4,607,846 A
• Filed: 05/03/1986
• Issued: 08/26/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sonnie J. Perkins
• Original Assignee: Sonnie J. Perkins
• Inventors: Perkins, Sonnie J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US06/730,194
• Time in Patent Office: 115 Days
• Field of Search: 273/171, 273/169, 273/172, 273/167 F, 273/167 H, 273/77 A
• US Class Current: 473/336
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2053/0491 with added weights, e.g. changeable, replaceable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/047 iron-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence

Abstract

An improved weighting system is provided in combination with a golf club head having a front face adapted to strike a golf ball, a bottom surface, a top surface, an aft surface, a toe, a heel and a hosel, the system comprising

(a) a first elongated opening extending directionally between the toe and heel, angled forwardly and rearwardly, and located closer to the head bottom surface than to said top surface, and a first weight adjustably located endwise in said opening,

(b) and a second elongated opening extending directionally between the toe and heel, and located closer to said top surface than to said bottom surface and a second weight adjustably located endwise in that opening.

Also an auxiliary elongated opening may be provided in the head to intersect the heel and extend toward the hosel, and an auxiliary weight may be adjustably located in that opening; a weight carrying recess in the back side of the head is typically intersected by the first and second openings, and the openings may be oriented to provide adjustable weighting in fore and aft directions, as is disclosed.

Claims

1. A golf club head having a front face adapted to strike a golf ball, a bottom surface, a top surface, an aft surface, a toe, a heel and a hosel, comprising

(a) a first elongated opening extending directionally between the lower extents of the toe and heel, and located closer to said bottom surface than to said top surface, said first opening also angled forwardly and aftwardly, and a first weight adjustably located endwise in said opening,

(b) and a second elongated opening extending directionally between the toe and heel, and located closer to said top surface than to said bottom surface, said second opening inclined upwardly relative to the first opening and toward the upper extent of the toe, and a second weight adjustably located endwise in said opening.

2. The golf club head of claim 1 wherein said openings intersect the outer periphery of the head at opening mouths, and including means in said openings closing said mouths.

3. The golf club head of claim 2 wherein at least one of the weights consists of a metal which is different than the material of said head.

4. The golf club head of claim 1 wherein said openings and weights have interengaged screw threads, whereby the weights may be adjustably displaced endwise in said openings in response to rotation of the weights.

5. The golf club head of claim 1 wherein said weights have selected lengths, and are shorter than said openings.

6. The golf club head of claim 1 including (a) an auxiliary elongated opening extending directionally parallel to the hosel and intersecting said heel, and an auxiliary weight adjustably located endwise in said auxiliary opening, said first and second openings terminating at a recess sunk in the rear side of the head and everywhere spaced from said auxiliary opening.

7. The golf club head of claim 6 wherein said auxiliary opening extends in a neck defined by the head.

8. The golf club head of claim 6 wherein there are at least two weights in at least one of said openings.

9. A set of golf club irons, each as defined in claim 1, the weights in said heads of the irons selectively adjusted in said openings.

10. The golf club head of claim 1 wherein there are at least two weights in said openings.

16. The golf club head of claim 1 wherein said openings are cylindrical, and intersect the outer periphery of the head at the toe end thereof.

17. The golf club head of claim 16 wherein one end of each of said openings intersects a recess sunk in the rear side of the head closer to said heel than to said toe.

18. The golf club head of claim 17 including weighting material in said recess, the weighting material having a diameter greater than its thickness, and the recess having a depth greater than said weighting material thickness to permit fore and aft selected positioning of said weighting material.

11. A golf club head having a front face adapted to strike a golf ball, a bottom surface, a top surface, an aft surface, a toe, a heel and a hosel, comprising

(a) a first elongated opening extending directionally between the toe and heel, and located closer to said bottom surface than to said tops surface, and a first weight adjustably located endwise in said opening,

(b) and an auxiliary elongated opening extending directionally parallel to the hosel and intersecting said heel and an auxiliary weight adjustably located endwise in said auxiliary opening,

(c) said first opening having an end which intersects a recess sunk in the rear side of the head, and there being a plug in the recess, said recess closer to said heel than to said toe, but spaced from said auxiliary opening.

12. The golf club head of claim 11 wherein said openings intersect the outer periphery of the head at opening mouths, and including means in said openings closing said mouths.

13. The golf club head of claim 11 wherein said openings and weights have interengaged screw threads, whereby the weights may be adjustably displaced endwise in said openings in response to rotation of the weights.

14. The golf club head of claim 13 wherein at least one of the weights consists of a metal which is different than the material of said head.

15. The golf club head of claim 11 wherein said weights have selected lengths, and are shorter than said openings.

19. The golf club head of claim 11 wherein said openings are cylindrical, and said first opening intersects the periphery of the head at the toe end thereof.

20. The golf club head of claim 11 wherein there are at least two weights in at least one of said openings.