Releasable fastening structure for trial golf club shafts and heads

• US 5,722,901 A
• Filed: 02/11/1997
• Issued: 03/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John R. Barron, Leo Ohanesian
• Original Assignee: John R. Barron, Leo Ohanesian
• Inventors: Ohanesian, Leo, Barron, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Application Number:
  US08/798,558
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 473/305, 473/306, 473/307, 473/308, 473/309, 473/310, 473/311, 473/312, 473/313, 473/314, 473/315, 473/325, 473/288
• US Class Current: 473/305
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/02 Joint structures between the head and the shaft
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like

Abstract

A releasable fastening structure for quick assemblage and disassemblage of golf clubs and shafts for trial purposes provides club heads with hosels carrying diametrically extending fastening pins to interconnect with cooperating shafts defining fastenably interconnecting channels. The head end portion of cooperating shafts define "U" shaped channels to receive the fastening pin in releasable interconnection upon axial and rotary motion in the hosel channel. A spring in the hosel channel inwardly of the fastening pin biases a shaft therein outwardly to maintain fastenable interconnection after establishment, but allows manually generated, axially inward motion for quick assembly and disassembly.

Claims

1. A releasable connecting structure for golf club shafts and heads, having a hosel defining a medial channel with an inner end to receive a first end portion of the shaft, comprising in combination:

a golf club head having a fastening pin carried by the hosel to extend diametrically through the medial channel defined therein spacedly distant from the inner end and a compression spring carried in the medial channel between the inner end and the fastening pin for biasing a shaft in the medial channel outwardly from the inner end, and

a golf club shaft having channel structure defined in the first end portion carried in the hosel, said channel structure having a diametrically orientated first slot, with a width incrementally greater than the diameter of the fastening pin, extending spacedly inwardly from the first end of the shaft to interconnect with a second radially extending slot having width at least as great as the length of the first slot and a length greater than the width to interconnect with a third vertical slot having a width at least as great as the first slot and extending with diametrical orientation toward the first end of the shaft spacedly distant therefrom.

2. The connecting structure of claim 1 further having a tubular collar extending about the first end portion of the shaft and within the medial channel of the hosel.