Golf club head

• US 5,522,593 A
• Filed: 05/19/1994
• Issued: 06/04/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Endo Seisakucho, Kabushiki Kaisha Endo Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Endo Seisakusho
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Kenji, Takeda, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Application Number:
  US08/245,971
• Time in Patent Office: 747 Days
• Field of Search: 273/167 R, 273/167 F, 273/167 H, 273/169, 273/170, 273/171, 273/172, 273/173, 273/DIG. 23, 273/78, 273/77 R
• US Class Current: 473/349
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• 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 53/0462 characterised by tapering thickness of the impact face plate
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/047 iron-type
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/02 Ballast means for adjusting the centre of mass A63B60/24, A63B60/54 take precedence

Abstract

A golf club head, especially relating to an iron golf club head having a balance weight secured to the back of a head body, provided for improvemnt of securing such balance weight thereto. The back surface of the head body and the front surface of the weight are provided with concave portions opposite to each other, of which the side-peripheral surfaces decrease their cross-widths toward their contact surfaces. Into a space between the back and front surfaces is filled a connecting material such as an adhesive, and then solidified, thereby easily joining the head body to the weight, which can be ensured thanks to dovetail structures of the concave portions.

Claims

1. A golf club head comprising:

(a) a head body having a back, said head body having a first recess at the back, a side-peripheral surface of said back having a cross-sectional width decreasing toward a rear direction of the golf head;

(b) a balance weight to be secured to said head body, said balance weight being formed of denser material than that of said head body, said balance weight, having a front having a second recess in opposition to said first recess, a side-peripheral surface of said balance weigh, having a cross-sectional width decreasing toward a front direction of the club head;

(c) a connecting member to be filled and solidified in a space defined by said first and second recesses, said connecting member being made of adhesive, carbon fiber or the like.

2. A golf club head comprising:

(a) a head body, said head body having one contact surface for contacting against a balance weight;

(b) a balance weight to be secured to said head body, said balance weight being formed of denser material than that of said head body, having a second contact surface against said head body;

(c) a plurality of protrusions provided on one of said two contact surfaces;

(d) a plurality of recesses provided on the other of said two contact surfaces, each of said recesses obliquely extending either inwardly or outwardly for pressing into said protrusions, with said protrusions being subjected to a plastic deformation as a whole.

3. A golf club head according to claim 2, wherein said plurality of protrusions obliquely extend in such a manner that they extend inwardly when said recesses extend outwardly, and they extend outwardly when said recesses extend inwardly.

4. A golf club head according to claim 2, wherein said plurality of protrusions are convex bars provided along the peripheral edge of the balance weight, and said plurality of recesses are concave grooves provided along the peripheral edge of the head body.

5. A golf club head according to claim 2, wherein said balance weight is formed of beryllium copper alloy softer than the material of said head body, whereby plastic deformation can more easily take place in pressing the protrusions into the recesses.

6. A golf club head having a head body and a balance weight being formed annular in cross section and made of a denser material than that of said head body, a back side of said head body comprising three step surfaces:

a first flat surface located around the most outer peripheral edge of said head body, having a first reverse-tapered side-surface bending from an inner periphery of the first flat surface toward the back side;

a second flat surface extending from an end of the first reverse-tapered side-surface toward its inner periphery side, having a second reverse-tapered surface bending from an inner periphery of the second flat surface;

a third flat surface extending from an end of the second reverse-tapered side-surface toward its inner periphery side, having a cylindrical surface extending from the inner periphery of the third flat surface toward the back side, said two reverse-tapered side-surfaces being so provided that the cross sectional width of the stepped portions increases toward the extending direction, and a front side of said weight comprising three inverted step surfaces;

a first flat surface corresponding to said first flat surface of said head body, having a first tapered surface for pressing said first reverse-tapered surface of said head body thereunto;

a second flat surface corresponding to said second flat surface of said head body, having a second tapered surface for pressing said second reverse-tapered surface of said head body thereunto;

a third flat surface corresponding to said third flat surface of said head body; and

an aperture for fitting said cylindrical surface of said head body thereunto.