Golf club head

• US 5,993,329 A
• Filed: 05/13/1998
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tien W.U. Shieh
• Original Assignee: Tien W.U. Shieh
• Inventors: Shieh, Tien Wu
• Primary Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Application Number:
  US09/078,359
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 473/324, 473/342, 473/345, 473/329, 473/332, 473/346, 473/349, 473/350
• US Class Current: 473/329
• 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 53/0416 Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0466 wood-type

Abstract

A golf club head includes a casing having a front opening and an inside retaining flange within the front opening, a face panel and a hollow loop-like coupling block fitted into the front opening of the casing and retained thereto by the inside retaining flange of the casing to hold the face panel in place, the coupling block having material properties of rigidness, structural strength and wear-resistance stronger than the casing but weaker than the face panel.

Claims

1. A golf club head comprising:

a casing having a front opening and an inside retaining flange within the front opening, said retaining flange having an arched cross-section smoothly curving outwards toward the front opening, and a face panel having a coupling flange adjacent its periphery and mounted within said front opening flush with said casing, wherein a hollow looped coupling block is fitted into the front opening of said casing and retained thereto by the inside retaining flange of said casing, said coupling block including an inside annular groove and fastened to the coupling flange about the periphery of said face panel by a tongue-and-groove arrangement, said coupling block having material properties of rigidness, structural strength and wear-resistance stronger than said casing, but weaker than said face panel.