Golf club handle grip

• US 7,195,568 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2004
• Issued: 03/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Winn Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Ben Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Ben
• Primary Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US10/827,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20040259662A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,072 Days
• Field of Search: 473300-303, 473/549, 473/568, D21/756, 745/51, 814/89, 164/21, 164/30, 280/821
• US Class Current: 473/301
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 49/08 with special construction of the handle
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/14 Handles
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/14 Coverings specially adapted for handles, e.g. sleeves or ribbons
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/54 with means for damping vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2367/00 Polyesters, e.g. PET, i.e. polyethylene terephthalate
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2375/00 Polyureas; Polyurethanes
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/08 of synthetic resin
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 27/40 comprising polyurethanes

Abstract

A golf club handle grip having a smooth exterior surface such as utilized in a conventional rubber golf club grip, but with such grip being tacky and shock absorbing as compared to a conventional rubber golf club grip.

Claims

1. In a grip for the handle of an impact imparting device, a flexible strip comprising:

a polyurethane layer having its lower surface bonded to the upper surface of a felt layer;

a recessed reinforcement surface formed on a first side edge of the polyurethane layer;

the felt layer of the first side edge being slanted upwardly and outwardly from the underside of the felt layer;

a compressed densified area formed on the second side edge of the polyurethane layer;

the second side of the strip slanting upwardly and outwardly from the underside of the felt layer; and

the second side edge of the strip adapted to overlap the first side edge of the strip to form a smooth watertight juncture between such first and second side edges of the strip.

2. A golf club grip as set forth in claim 1 wherein the overlying edges form a seam and the seam does not exceed 0.5 mm in width.

3. A golf club grip as set forth in claim 2 wherein the underlisting sleeve includes a cap and a nipple adapted to retain the strip.

4. A golf club grip as set forth in claim 1 wherein the underlisting sleeve includes a cap and a nipple adapted to retain the strip.

5. A method of making a grip for the handle of an impact imparting device that includes the steps of:

providing a strip having a layer of polyurethane bonded to a layer of felt;

heat compressing a first side edge of the polyurethane layer to form a recessed reinforcement surface;

applying heat through the outside surface of the felt layer to the polyurethane layer at the second side edge of the strip to form a compressed densified area in such polyurethane layer;

skiving the first side edge of the strip upwardly and outward from the underside of the felt layer; and

skiving the felt layer of the second side edge of the strip upwardly and outwardly from the underside of the strip.

6. A method of making a golf club handle grip that includes the steps of:

providing a strip having a layer of polyurethane bonded to a layer of felt;

heat compressing a first side edge of the polyurethane layer to form a recessed reinforcement surface;

applying heat through the outside surface of the felt layer to the polyurethane layer at the second side edge of the strip to form a compressed densified area in such polyurethane layer;

skiving the first side edge of the strip upwardly and outward from the underside of the felt layer;

skiving the felt layer of the second side edge of the strip upwardly and outwardly from the underside of the strip; and

providing an underlisting sleeve.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the underlisting is further provided with a cap and a nipple adapted to retain the strip.