Putter type golf club

• US 8,303,434 B1
• Filed: 06/23/2010
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Richard Depaul
• Original Assignee: Richard Depaul
• Inventors: DePaul, Richard
• Primary Examiner(s): BLAU, STEPHEN LUTHER
• Application Number:
  US12/803,264
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: 473/340, 473/341, 473251-255, 473334-337
• US Class Current: 473/341
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0433 with special sole configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0437 with special crown configurations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0441 with visual indicators for aligning the golf club
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/0487 for putters A63B53/065 takes precedence

Abstract

A putter golf club that resists twisting by increasing the rotational inertia of the golf club to the maximum degree possible by distributing mass away from the center of mass of the putter, and thereby expands the sweet spot of the putter. Rotational inertia is maximized via use of a heel control wing and a toe control wing extending rearwardly and outwardly from a striking face of the putter as well as a tail rod extending perpendicularly from striking face. Further increase of rotational inertia is accomplished via s symmetrical recesses incorporated into heel and toe control wing.

Claims

1. A putter, for use by a golfer, when hitting a golf ball, and for maximizing rotational inertia comprising:

a shaft, having a top and a bottom, a grip located at the top;

a putter head, having a striking face having a pair of lateral edges, and having a main body having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a main body rear, the putter head further having heel and toe control wings which extend rearwardly and outwardly from the lateral edges of the striking face and from the main body rear, the heel and toe control wings containing more than one third of the overall mass of the putter head, the heel and toe control wings each having an outer edge and an inner lateral edge, the outer edge and inner lateral edge of each control wing meeting at a wing tip, the inner lateral edges each on a straight line, the straight lines when extended beyond the inner lateral edges intersect substantially at a shaft connection hole, the shaft connection hole located on the top surface of the main body substantially at said intersect on the main body, the bottom of the shaft connected in the shaft connection hole; and

a tail rod extending rearwardly from the main body rear of the putter head, substantially centered between the control wings and extending substantially perpendicularly from the striking face.

2. The putter as recited in claim 1, where said tail rod is cylindrical in shape.

3. The putter as recited in claim 2, wherein the tail rod is located closer to the top surface of the main body than to the bottom surface of the main body.

4. The putter as recited in claim 1, wherein the control wings each have a bottom surface having recess openings extending upwardly thereinto and located rearwardly of the main body rear.

5. The putter as recited in claim 4, wherein said recess openings extending upwardly do not extend upwardly fully to the main body top surface.