Set of golf clubs

• US 5,766,087 A
• Filed: 01/21/1997
• Issued: 06/16/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SRI Sports Limited (Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited
• Inventors: Kawamatsu, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US08/784,537
• Time in Patent Office: 511 Days
• Field of Search: 473/330, 473/331, 473/290
• US Class Current: 473/290
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/005 Club sets
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0408 characterised by specific dimensions, e.g. thickness
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0445 Details of grooves or the like on the impact surface
• 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

Abstract

A set of golf clubs including a number of golf clubs which are numbered serially and having progressively increasing loft angles from long irons to short irons. In a cross section of a number of face line grooves arranged on a striking face, the striking face and a groove slope face form a corner portion having a cross-sectional angle which decreases gradually from the long irons to the short irons.

Claims

1. A set of golf clubs including a number of golf clubs numbered serially and having a gradually increasing loft angle from long irons to short irons, wherein the improvement comprises arranging angles of corner portions formed by a striking face and groove slope faces in a cross-section of a number of face line grooves extending across the striking face to decrease, while arranging the face line grooves with groove widths which increase within a range from 0.3 mm to 0.9 mm, progressively from the long irons to the short irons.

4. The set of golf clubs as set forth in claim 1, claim 2, or claim 3, wherein said angles of the corner portions are arranged within a range from 90°

to 160°

.

5. The set of golf clubs as set forth in claim 1, claim 2, or claim 3, wherein the face line grooves are arranged at regular intervals of at least 1.2 mm and at most 6.0 mm.

6. The set of golf clubs as set forth in claim 1, claim 2, or claim 3, wherein the face line grooves are arranged to have groove depths which progressively increase within a range from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm from the long irons to the short irons.

2. A set of golf clubs including a number of golf clubs numbered serially and having a gradually increasing loft angle from long irons to short irons, wherein the improvement comprises arranging angles of corner portions formed by a striking face and groove slope faces in a cross-section of a number of face line grooves extending across the striking face to decrease, while arranging the face line grooves with groove widths which increase within a range from 0.3 mm to 0.9 mm, by stages from the long irons to the short irons.

3. A set of golf clubs including a number of golf clubs numbered serially and having a gradually increasing loft angle from long irons to short irons, wherein the improvement comprises arranging angles of corner portions formed by a striking face and groove slope faces in a cross-section of a number of face line grooves extending across the striking face to decrease, while arranging the face line grooves with groove widths which increase within a range from 0.3 mm to 0.9 mm, progressively and by stages from the long irons to the short irons.