Golf ball

• US 5,018,741 A
• Filed: 07/24/1989
• Issued: 05/28/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Callaway Golf Company (Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Spalding & Evenflo Companies Incorporated
• Inventors: Nesbitt, R. D., Melvin, Terence, Stiefel, Joseph F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US07/384,205
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: 273/232, 273/235 R, 273/220, 273/62, 273/218, 40/327
• US Class Current: 473/379
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/0004 Surface depressions or protrusions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/00065 located around the pole or the equator
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 37/002 Specified dimple diameter

Abstract

A golf ball is disclosed which has two poles and an equator and a modified icosahedral lattice wherein the lattice comprises five adjacent triangles on either side of the equator, with the vertices of each of the adjacent triangles being located at each of the poles and the legs of the triangles opposite said vertices being equidistantly spaced from the equator. Each triangle includes four dimples having a diameter D1 and two dimples having a diameter D2 located substantially centrally within the triangles. The remaining surface of the ball, including the remaining area within the triangles, contains dimples having a diameter D3. The diameter relationship is D1>D2>D3.

Claims

1. A golf ball having two poles and an equator, and having a preselected number of dimples arranged in a geometrical lattice configuration based upon a modified icosahedral lattice, said lattice comprising

a first plurality of adjacent triangles on either side of the equator of the ball, with the vertices of each of the adjacent triangles being located at each pole of said ball and the legs of said adjacent triangles opposite the vertices of said triangle being equidistantly spaced a predetermined distance from the equator of said ball;

two adjacent rows of dimples on either side of the equator of said ball extending about said ball between said equator and said legs of said triangles opposite said vertices, said dimples in said two adjacent rows having a diameter D3;

a first plurality of dimples lying along the lattice lines of said triangles, said first plurality of said dimples having a diameter D3;

a second plurality of dimples lying within each of said triangles, said second plurality of dimples comprising

four dimples having a diameter D1 greater than diameter D3;

two dimples having a diameter D2 greater than diameter D3, but less than the diameter D1; and

the remaining dimples lying in said triangles having a diameter D3.

2. The golf ball of claim 1 wherein there are five adjacent triangles on either side of the equator of the ball.

3. The golf ball of claim 1 wherein the ball has 422 dimples and the diameters of said dimples are:

space="preserve" listing-type="tabular">______________________________________ D1 0.164-0.166 Inch D2 0.152-0.154 Inch D3 0.141-0.143 Inch ______________________________________

4. The golf ball of claim 1 wherein the ball has 362 dimples having a diameter D3, 40 dimples having a diameter D1, and 20 dimples having a diameter D2.

5. The golf ball of claim 4 wherein the depths d1, d2, and d3 of said dimples are:

space="preserve" listing-type="tabular">______________________________________ d1 and d2 0.0116-0.0118 Inch d3 0.0094-0.0096 Inch ______________________________________

6. The golf ball of claim 1 wherein said four dimples having a diameter D1 and said two dimples having a diameter D2 are located substantially centrally within said triangles.