Golf club balancing apparatus

• US 7,267,619 B1
• Filed: 06/21/2006
• Issued: 09/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William J. Pettis
• Original Assignee: William J. Pettis
• Inventors: Pettis, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US11/471,450
• Time in Patent Office: 447 Days
• Field of Search: 473297-299, 473/292, 473/318, 473519-521, 473/523
• US Class Current: 473/297
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/24 Weighted handles

Abstract

A golf club balancing apparatus consisting of an elongated, pliable housing component tapered as respects the top portion thereof with flexible, durable ribbing affixed to the exterior walling of the remnant portion of the housing component serving to hold the housing component snugly with the butt end of a golf shaft and within the housing component being interiorly hollowed out so as to receive one or more weight units of various lengths and masses amenable to insertion therein or removal therefrom via the open hole in the top side of a golf club grip by way of resort to utilization of an insertion tool.

Claims

1. A golf club balancing apparatus, comprising:

a. a pliable housing component being tapered along an initial length of an upper portion thereof;

b. flexible ribbing affixed to and equipping a major portion of exterior walling of all of a remaining length of a lower portion of said housing component, with a greatest external diameter of said upper portion of said housing component being greater than a greatest inner diameter of an upper shaft portion of said golf club;

c. a plurality of sets of slits cut into said exterior walling through and into interior walling of said housing component at multiple sites along said length of said upper portion and along said all of said remaining length of said housing component;

d. a plurality of first weight units removably insertable into a hollowed out interior region of said housing component;

e. each one of said plurality of first weight units having a length and mass different from lengths and masses of other ones of said plurality of first weight units;

f. said each one of said plurality of first weight units being featured by symmetrical concavity at a mid-portion of each of said each one of said plurality of first weight units;

g. said each one of said plurality of first weight units having a first weight threaded hole within each end thereof;

h. flexible ribbing circularly affixed to and equipping said interior walling of said housing component at near a midpoint in said housing component for holding one of said each one of said plurality of first weight units at said mid portion thereof;

i. a plurality of pairs of second weight units removably insertable into said hollowed out interior region of said housing component;

j. each member of each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units having equivalent length and mass;

k. said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units being different than any other such said each member pair within said plurality of pairs of second weight units in respect of length and mass;

l. each member of said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units having an on-end threaded hole in one end thereof and on-end external threading affixed at an other end thereof;

m. an elongated insertion tool with a gripping handle at an upper end thereof and extraction threading affixed at a bottom end thereof;

n. each said on-end threaded hole being amenable to receipt of said extraction threading as well as said on-end external threading;

o. said on-end external threading being also amenable to receipt by each of said first weight threaded holes, and;

p. each said first weight threaded hole being also amenable to receiving said extraction threading.

2. The golf club balancing apparatus of claim 1, whereby, said each one of said plurality of first weight units and each said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units and said external threading affixed to said each member of said said each member pair are made of a tungsten alloy material.

3. The golf club balancing apparatus of claim 1, whereby, said each one of said plurality of first weight units and each said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units and said external threading affixed to said each member of said each member pair are made of a gold alloy material.

4. The golf club balancing apparatus of claim 1, whereby, said each one of said plurality of first weight units and each said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units and said external threading affixed to said each member of said said each member pair are made of a material with density greater than five grams per centimeter.

5. A golf club balancing apparatus, comprising:

a. a pliable housing component being tapered along an initial length of an upper portion thereof;

b. flexible ribbing affixed to and equipping a major portion of exterior walling of all of a remaining length of a lower portion of said housing component, with a greatest external diameter of said upper portion of said housing component being greater than a greatest inner diameter of an upper shaft portion of said golf club;

c. a plurality of sets of slits cut into said exterior walling through and into interior walling of said housing component at multiple sites along said length of said upper portion and along said all of said remaining length of said housing component;

d. a plurality of first weight units removably insertable into a hollowed out interior region of said housing component;

e. each one of said plurality of first weight units having a length and mass different from lengths and masses of other ones of said plurality of first weight units;

f. said each one of said plurality of first weight units being featured by symmetrical concavity at a mid-portion of each of said each one of said plurality of first weight units;

g. said each one of said plurality of first weight units having a first weight threaded hole within each end thereof;

h. flexible ribbing circularly affixed to and equipping said interior walling of said housing component at near a midpoint in said housing component for holding one of said each one of said plurality of first weight units at said mid portion thereof;

i. a plurality of pairs of second weight units removably insertable into said hollowed out interior region of said housing component;

j. each member of each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units having equivalent length and mass;

k. said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units being different than any other such said each member pair within said plurality of pairs of second weight units in respect of length and mass;

l. each member of said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units having an on-end threaded hole at one end thereof and on end external threading affixed at an other end thereof;

m. an elongated insertion tool with a gripping handle at an upper end thereof and extraction threading affixed at a bottom end thereof;

n. each said on-end threaded hole being amenable to receipt of said extraction threading as well as said on-end external threading;

o. said on-end external threading being also amenable to receipt by each of said first weight threaded holes;

p. each said first weight threaded hole being also amenable to receiving said extraction threading;

q. a tapered guide tip unit with length and mass and with guide tip external threading affixed to a topside thereof, and;

r. said guide tip external threading being receivable by each said first weight threaded hole as well as each said on-end threaded hole.

6. The golf club balancing apparatus of claim 5, whereby, said each one of said plurality of first weight units and each said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units and said external threading affixed to said each member of said said each member pair and said guide tip and said guide tip external threading are made of a tungsten alloy material.

7. The golf club balancing apparatus of claim 5, whereby, said each one of said plurality of first weight units and each said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units and said external threading affixed to said each members of said each members of said each member pair and said guide tip and said guide tip external threading are made of a gold alloy material.

8. The golf club balancing apparatus of claim 5, whereby, said each one of said plurality of first weight units and each said each member pair of said plurality of pairs of second weight units and said external threading affixed to said each member of said said each member pair and said guide tip and said guide tip external threading are made of a material with density greater than five grams per centimeter.