Golf club putter

• US 7,651,409 B1
• Filed: 08/24/2007
• Issued: 01/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kelly J. Mier
• Original Assignee: Kelly J. Mier
• Inventors: Mier, Kelly J.
• Primary Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US11/844,630
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 473324-325, 473/330, 473340-341
• US Class Current: 473/330
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/007 Putters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/08 with special arrangements for obtaining a variable impact
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/00 Details or accessories of golf clubs, bats, rackets or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3685 Putters or attachments on putters, e.g. for measuring, aligning A63B69/3614 takes precedence

Abstract

This patent discloses a golf club putter to improve a golf putt swing through feedback. The golf club putter may include a shaft, a shaft insert attached to the shaft, and a head attached to the shaft insert. The head may have a body attached to the shaft insert, a shell having a clubface that may be configured to impact a golf ball, and shell fasteners that may be connected between the body and the shell to permit the shell to rotate relative to the body from an initial position. The shell may return to the initial position automatically.

Claims

1. A golf club putter to improve a golf putt swing through both negative and positive putting training feedback, the golf club putter comprising:

a shaft;

a shaft insert attached to the shaft; and

a head attached to the shaft insert, where the head includes a shell attached to a clubface and a false front attached to the shell to extend away from the shell and overhang the clubface, where the clubface includes a target as a vertical flat striking face, where a centerline passes perpendicularly through a midpoint of the target, where the clubface further includes a first off-target that is curved to provide negative putting training feedback and a second off-target that is curved to provide negative putting training feedback, where the first off-target and the second off-target are symmetrical about the target, and where the false front includes a lead false front edge having a lead false front edge profile that is straight and perpendicular to the centerline, where the lead false front edge profile is positioned at an overhang distance from the target as measured along the centerline, where the overhang distance is not greater than ¼

inch and not less than 1/32 inch.

2. The golf club putter of claim 1, where the target includes a target width that is greater than ⅜

inch and where perimeters of the first off-target and the second off-target follow paths that are away from a plane of the target.

3. The golf club putter of claim 2, where the target is a rectangular shaped surface orientated on the clubface to be centered on the shaft insert so that the target is perpendicular to a centerline passing through the target and the shaft insert.

4. The golf club putter of claim 2, where an upper surface of the head includes a point inlaid along the centerline.

5. The golf club putter of claim 2, where the first off-target and the second off-target are formed from a single curve interrupted and made discontinuous by the target.

6. The golf club putter of claim 5, where the first off-target and the second off-target extend equidistance horizontally away from the centerline.

7. The golf club putter of claim 2, where a curvature of the first off-target and the second off-target are part of a circle having a circle center on the centerline, where the circle center is positioned at a shell rear distance, where the shell rear distance is positioned remote from the head and a shell rear of the shell, and where the shell rear distance is measured along the centerline between the shell rear and the circle center.

8. The golf club putter of claim 7, where the curvature of the first off-target and the second off-target are defined by an off-target radius and where a ratio of the off-target radius to the shell rear distance approximately is 3:

1.

9. The golf club putter of claim 1, where the target includes a target height and the target width and where a ratio of the target height to the target width is 4:

1.

10. The golf club putter of claim 9, where the centerline passes through the shaft insert.

11. The golf club putter of claim 9, where the centerline does not pass through the shaft insert.