Golf club head of composite material

• US 5,288,070 A
• Filed: 03/09/1993
• Issued: 02/22/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Archer C.C. Chen
• Original Assignee: Archer C.C. Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Archer C. C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Millin, Vincent
• Assistant Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Application Number:
  US08/028,262
• Time in Patent Office: 350 Days
• Field of Search: 273/167 H, 273/167 R, 273/167 J, 273/169, 273/173, 273/167 F, 273/78, 273/DIG. 23, 273/162 R, 273/164.1, 273/167 D, 273/167 K, 273/170, 273/171 , 273/174, 273/175, 273/77 R, 273/77 A, 273/193 R, 273/194 R
• US Class Current: 473/331
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/02 with reinforcing fibres, e.g. carbon, polyamide fibres
• 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 53/0425 the face insert comprising two or more different materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 273/23 High modulus filaments

Abstract

A golf club head of composite material comprises an outer shell, an inner shell, a base plate, and a front wall. The outer shell of a metal material is provided with a receiving space and a neck having therein a shaft hole in communication with the receiving space. The inner shell of a fiber-reinforced resin material is adhered to the inner wall of the receiving space of the outer shell and is provided with a cell facing the open end of the outer shell and with an annular shoulder adjacent to the open end of the outer shell. The base plate is arranged on the annular shoulder of the inner shell so as to seal off the cell of the inner shell and to form a shaping slot located between the base plate and the open end of the outer shell. The front wall of a fiber-reinforced resin material is embedded in the shaping slot to form a ball-striking face of the golf club head.

Claims

1. A golf club head of composite material comprising:

an outer shell shaped to have an open end and made integrally of a metal by casting and provided with a receiving space having an inner wall within said outer shell and with a neck which extends upwardly and obliquely therefrom and having a shaft hole in communication with said receiving space;

an inner shell of a fiber-reinforced resin material adhered to said inner wall of said receiving space of said outer shell and provided with a cell facing said open end of said outer shell and with an annular shoulder adjacent to said open end of said outer shell;

a base plate arranged on said shoulder so as to seal off said cell of said inner shell and to form a shaping slot located between said base plate and said open end of said outer shell; and

a front wall of a fiber-reinforced resin material embedded in said shaping slot to form a ball-striking face.

2. The golf club head of composite material in accordance with claim 1 wherein an intermediate layer of a fiber fabric pre-impregnated in an epoxy resin is located between said base plate and said shoulder.

3. The golf club head of composite material in accordance with claim 1 wherein a core of lightweight foam material fills said inner shell.

4. The golf club head of composite material in accordance with claim 1 wherein said ball-striking face of said front wall has thereon a plurality of ball-striking linear grooves made integrally therewith.

5. The golf club head of composite material in accordance with claim 1 wherein a ball-striking plate is embedded in said front wall with an inner surface of said ball-striking plate in alignment with said ball-striking face of said front wall, said ball-striking plate having thereon a plurality of ball-striking linear grooves made integrally on an outer surface of ball-striking plate.