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Hollow, large, metallic, golf club head

  • US 5,460,376 A
  • Filed: 06/19/1994
  • Issued: 10/24/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A golf club head comprising a heel having toe and heel portions, a rear wall, a front wall defining a ball-striking face, and top and bottom walls, said bottom wall characterized as having a medial ridge, and as forming two dished shallow recesses, one recess between the ridge and the heel portion, and the other recess between the ridge and the heel portion, and the other recess between the ridge and the toe portion, said recesses spaced rearwardly from said front wall, the one recess having an arcuate peripheral edge generally convex toward said heel portion, and the other recess having an arcuate peripheral edge generally convex toward the toe portion, said recesses being located in substantially mirror imaged positions with respect to a forwardly extending vertical plane bisecting said ridge, the head, when viewed toward said bottom wall, presenting a peripheral outline which, at the toe and rear of the head, has substantial spacing from said other dished shallow recess, said medial ridge being a downwardly facing medial ridge spaced below the levels of said recesses, said ridge having rearwardly elongated length at substantially the same elevation and being downwardly convex in a toe to heel direction along said length thereof to define ridge side walls merging with said recesses, said ridge diverging endwise.

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