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Golf club

  • US 4,695,054 A
  • Filed: 03/10/1986
  • Issued: 09/22/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
First Claim
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1. In a golf club consisting of a shaft and a head interconnected by a hosel, the improvement in means for modifying the club to a preferred weight level comprising:

  • the head consisting of a cover and a contact plate and a base,the contact plate having a front striking face and being vertically-extending and securable to the cover for defining cooperantly therewith a closed upwardly-projecting recess from the sole of the cover,the base having a forward toe and a rearward heel relative to the longitudinal axis of the head and being nestably receivable within the recess,an extension of the longitudinal axis of the shaft passing through the base between the toe and heel,the base having spaced vertically-extending downwardly-projecting closed recesses in the respective toe and heel,a screw in locked interengagement with and vertically extendable through and rotatable relative to the base between the recesses and threadedly engageable with the cover for releasably interengaging the cover and base,a barrel and a plurality of weight discs being selectively receivable in each of the recesses for weighting the respective toe and heel,each barrel being selectively receivable in its recess with the respective weight discs disposed upwardly thereof for the weighting of the upper region of the base or with the respective weight discs disposed downwardly thereof for the weighting of the lower region of the base,a compressible member being receivable in each respective barrel and disposable over the respective weight discs and barrel in maintaining the respective weight discs and barrel in tight relationship as to the base,the front striking face of the contact plate forwardly of the screw defining a preferred point of initial contact of the plate with a ball.

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