Golf balls
First Claim
1. A golf ball having in its spherical outer surface a plurality of dimples, wherein at least 10% of said dimples are so disposed relative to one another that any two of said dimples which are adjacent each other on said outer surface have peripheries which extend inside each other to form an overlapping region.
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Abstract
A golf ball (10) has a plurality of dimples in its outer surface. At least 10% of the dimples are so disposed relative to one another that any two adjacemt dimples overlap. The region of each overlap may have a maximum width of from 1% to 20% of the diameter of the larger of any two overlapping dimples. Preferably, the dimples are arranged in a repeating pattern over the whole surface of the ball. The pattern may be defined by projecting on to the ball the edges of a regular dodecahedron (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20) so that the ball is notionally divided into twelve regular pentagons (one shown - 21).
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10 Claims
- 1. A golf ball having in its spherical outer surface a plurality of dimples, wherein at least 10% of said dimples are so disposed relative to one another that any two of said dimples which are adjacent each other on said outer surface have peripheries which extend inside each other to form an overlapping region.
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