One-body precision cast metal wood

• US 5,289,865 A
• Filed: 05/17/1993
• Issued: 03/01/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Donald J.C. Sun
• Original Assignee: Donald J.C. Sun
• Inventors: Sun, Donald J. C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley, Paula A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PUKNYS, ERIK
• Application Number:
  US08/062,791
• Time in Patent Office: 288 Days
• Field of Search: 164/369, 164/368, 164/366, 164/365, 164/345, 164/346, 164/132, 164/76.1, 273/171
• US Class Current: 164/76.1
• CPC Class Codes: B22C 9/10 Cores; Manufacture or installation of cores breaker cores B22C9/084
• CPC Class Codes: B22C 9/108 Installation of cores
• CPC Class Codes: B22C 9/12 Treating moulds or cores, e.g. drying, hardening
• CPC Class Codes: B22D 17/24 Accessories for locating and holding cores or inserts
• CPC Class Codes: B22D 25/02 by its peculiarity of shape; of works of art cylinders, pistons B22D15/02

Abstract

A golf club metal wood head comprising a shell having a ball striking front face, a top wall, a bottom wall, and rear wall, and toe and heel walls, the combination comprising multiple ports in the bottom wall, the ports opening to the bottom wall exterior, and multiple inserts of different weight received into the ports from the exterior and connected to the bottom wall, the inserts having weights selected for golf club balance and swing adjustment.

Claims

1. In the method of making a golf club head comprising a shell having a ball striking face, a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall, and toe and heel walls, the steps that include

a) forming a head core consisting of particles of sand or the like in a binder,

b) and casting molten lightweight metal about said core to form the shell walls,

c) forming multiple ports in said bottom wall by supporting rods to project into the core and by casting said metal about said rods, and removing the rods,

d) removing at last part of the core via one of said ports, and then connecting metal inserts into said shell at said ports.

2. The method of claim 1 including preliminary forming said inserts to have weights selected for golf club balance and swing adjustment.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said ports are formed at different positions in said bottom wall to accommodate reception of said weights selected for golf club balance and swing adjustment.

4. The method of claim 1 including cleaning out the core, via said ports, prior to said connecting of inserts into said shell.

5. The method of claim 1 including applying a surface coating to the core prior to said casting step, said coating characterized as decomposing at temperatures in excess of about 1,000°

C.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said binder includes a mixture of phenolic resin and isobutyro-nitrile acid, said resin curing at high temperature.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said shell consists of aluminum alloy.