Golf club putter

• US 4,872,683 A
• Filed: 11/22/1988
• Issued: 10/10/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert H. Redkey
• Original Assignee: Robert H. Redkey
• Inventors: Redkey, Robert H., Doran, Brian A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US07/274,913
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 273/163 R, 273/163 A, 273/167 C, 273/167 E, 273/167 F, 273/167 H, 273/164, 273/171, 273/77 A, 273/175, 273/77 R, 273/167 D, 273/183 D, 273/172 , 273/173, 273/174, D21/219, D21/220
• US Class Current: 473/249
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/005 Club sets
• 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 53/0437 with special crown configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0441 with visual indicators for aligning the golf club
• 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 53/047 iron-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3685 Putters or attachments on putters, e.g. for measuring, aligning A63B69/3614 takes precedence

Abstract

A golf club set wherein each club employs a partially hollow alignment ball section integrally formed therewith and having spaced apart heel and toe weights mounted therein to improve the club stroke. The preferred putter further includes second heel and toe weights at the end of the putter blade, providing a dual weighting system. The woods according to the preferred embodiment employ a ball section mounted in a recess in the top surface thereof while the irons and putter have the ball section centrally located behind the blade.

Claims

1. A golf putter comprising:

a putter blade;

an alignment means for aligning said putter with a golf ball, said alignment means comprising a substantial section of a sphere the size of a golf ball centrally located on said putter blade, said section being hollow in part; and

weighting means comprising a first heel weight and a first toe weight disposed within said section and on opposite sides of a space therebetween.

2. The golf putter of claim 1 wherein said heel and toe weights are separated by a space having a substantially rectangular cross section and are of a height less than the diameter of said spherical ball.

3. The putter of claim 1 wherein said putter further includes a second heel weight and a second toe weight at either end of the putter blade.

4. The putter of claim 3 wherein said putter further includes first and second hollow openings in said putter blade on either side of said section.

5. The putter of claim 4 wherein said section is closed by a face plate within which said first heel weight and first toe weight are disposed.

6. The putter of claim 5 wherein said putter blade has a substantially planar face and said face plate lies in planar relation with said planar face.

7. The putter of claim 6 wherein a space the size of a quarter sphere lies above said heel and toe weights.

8. The putter of claim 1 wherein said substantial section comprises a quarter sphere.