Big scale (500cc) golf club head fabrication method

• US 6,079,612 A
• Filed: 07/21/1998
• Issued: 06/27/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kun-Ming Tung
• Original Assignee: Kun-Ming Tung
• Inventors: Tung, Kun-Ming
• Primary Examiner(s): Ryan, Patrick
• Assistant Examiner(s): NEWSOME, CECILIA R
• Application Number:
  US09/119,627
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 228/205, 228/219, 228/221, 228/171, 228/118, 473/331, 473/345, 473/346, 473/309, 273/33, 273/167
• US Class Current: 228/219
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/00 Characteristics of used materials
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/04 Heads
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0408 characterised by specific dimensions, e.g. thickness
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0412 Volume
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0416 Heads having an impact surface provided by a face insert

Abstract

A big scale (500 cc) golf club head fabrication method includes the step of preparing molds for making a top cover panel, a bottom cover panel and a face panel, the step of preparing metal alloy plate materials and then cutting the metal alloy plate materials into the desired sizes and then using the molds thus obtained to forge the metal alloy plate materials into the desired top cover panel, bottom panel and face panel respectively, and the step of welding the obtained top cover panel, bottom panel and face panel in a vacuum tank to form a golf club head and then polishing the golf club head into a finished product.

Claims

1. A big scale (500 cc) golf club head fabrication method comprising the steps of:

I) making a wooden mold sample subject to the volume of the designed club head;

ii) obtaining the peripheral lines of the top cover panel, the bottom panel and the face panel properly from the wooden mold sample thus obtained by means of projection;

iii) making respective upper gypsum molds and respective bottom gypsum molds for the top cover panel, the bottom panel and the face panel subject to the wooden mold sample and the peripheral lines thus obtained;

iv) making respective upper dies and bottom dies for the top cover panel, the bottom panel and the face panel;

v) preparing plate materials subject to the designed thickness, then cutting the prepared plate materials to the desired sizes;

vi) reinforcing the structural strength of the prepared materials by a heat treatment;

vii) using the prepared dies to forge the heat-treated plate materials into the desired top cover panel, bottom panel and face panel;

viii) putting the forged top cover panel, bottom panel and face panel in a vacuum tank and then welding the panels to form a club head; and

ix) polishing the golf club head thus obtained into a finished product.

2. The big scale (500 cc) golf club head fabrication method of claim 1 wherein the plate materials for the top cover panel and the bottom panel are preferably made of type 64 titanium alloy, and the plate material for the face panel is preferably made of β

titanium alloy.

3. The big scale (500 cc) golf club head fabrication method of claim 1 wherein the plate materials for the top cover panel and the bottom panel are preferably of thickness within about 0.8 mm˜

1.2 mm, and the plate material for the face panel is preferably of thickness within about 2.5 mm˜

1.8 mm.