Practice golf club capable of adjusting head speed

• US 8,414,412 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2010
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yung Deuk Kim
• Original Assignee: Yung Deuk Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Yung Deuk
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiu, Raleigh W
• Application Number:
  US13/202,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20110300963A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 473/234
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00058 Mechanical means for varying the resistance A63B21/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/08 magnetic
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/04 Movable ballast means A63B15/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3623 for driving A63B69/3608, A63B69/3658, A63B69/3661, A63B69/3667 and A63B69/3691 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3635 with sound-emitting source

Abstract

The present invention relates to a practice golf club capable of adjusting head speed having a head (H) attached to an end of a shaft(S) having a grip (G), from which an impact sound is generated through a swing operation, wherein the head (H) includes: a first body (100) coupled to the end of the shaft (S); a second body (110) having a tubular shape, both ends of which are open and adapted to be screw-coupled to the rear end of the first body (100); a moving weight (140) movably disposed inside the second body (110); a magnet (180) adapted to fix the moving weight (140) to the front end portion of the second body (110) by means of a magnetic force thereof; adjustment means adapted to adjust the gap between the magnet (180) and the moving weight (140) so as to control the strength of the magnetic force of the magnet (180) pulling the moving weight (140); a cap (120) screw-coupled to a rear end of the second body (110); and return means interposed between the cap (120) and the moving weight (140) to return the moving weight (140) to the original position when the moving weight (140) momentarily moves by centrifugal force and collides against the cap (120) to generate an impact sound.

Claims

1. A practice golf club capable of adjusting head speed having a head (H) attached to an end of a shaft(S) having a grip (G), from which an impact sound is generated through a swing operation, wherein the head (H) comprises:

a first body (100) coupled to the end of the shaft (S);

a second body (110) having a tubular shape, both ends of which are open and adapted to be screw-coupled to the rear end of the first body (100);

a moving weight (140) movably disposed inside the second body (110);

a magnet (180) adapted to fix the moving weight (140) to the front end portion of the second body (110) by means of a magnetic force thereof;

adjustment means adapted to adjust the gap between the magnet (180) and the moving weight (140) so as to control the strength of the magnetic force of the magnet (180) pulling the moving weight (140);

a cap (120) screw-coupled to a rear end of the second body (110); and

return means interposed between the cap (120) and the moving weight (140) to return the moving weight (140) to the original position when the moving weight (140) momentarily moves by centrifugal force and collides against the cap (120) to generate an impact sound.

2. The practice golf club according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment means adjusts the distance between the magnet (180) and the moving weight (140) by forming a stepped projection (112) along the inner periphery of the second body (110) contacted with the first body (100) to restrict the movement of the moving weight (140) toward the first body (100) and by fixedly disposing the magnet (180) inside the first body (100) correspondingly to the stepped projection (112) to move the second body (110) screw-coupled to the first body (100) forwardly and backwardly from the first body (100) by forward and reverse rotation of the second body (110).

3. The practice golf club according to claim 2, wherein the first body (100) has a locking projection (204) formed along the periphery thereof, and the second body (110) is screw-coupled to an escape prevention body (200) having a larger inner diameter than the first body (100), such that the first body (100) screw-coupled to the second body (110) is moved forwardly and backwardly inside the escape prevention body (200) by means of screw rotation, the escape prevention body (200) having an escape prevention protrusion (205) formed along the inner periphery of one side end portion thereof in such a manner as to be locked correspondingly to the locking projection (20), thereby preventing the first body (100) from being moved backwardly over the head speed adjustment range and escaped from the second body (110).

4. The practice golf club according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment means adjusts the distance between the magnet (180) and the moving weight (140) by forming the stepped projection (112) along the inner periphery of the second body (110) contacted with the first body (100), by fixedly disposing the magnet (180) having a shaft hole (182) formed at the center thereof on the stepped projection (11), by forming a screw hole (101) at the inside of the first body (100) corresponding to the shaft hole (182), by screw-coupling a gap adjustment screw (103) to the screw hole (101) through the shaft hole (182), and by moving the second body (110) screw-coupled to the first body (100) forwardly and backwardly through the forward and reverse rotation, such that the gap adjustment screw (103) is inserted into and drawn from the shaft hole (182) to push the moving weight (140), thereby adjusting the distance between the moving weight (140) and the magnet (180).

5. The practice golf club according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein so as to adjust the strength of the magnetic force applied to the moving weight (140) by varying the distance between the magnet (180) inside the first body (100) and the moving weight (14) inside the second body (110) by means of the screw rotation of the second body (110) screw-coupled to the first body (100) and thus to allow the degree of adjustment to be checked by a trainee'"'"'s eyes, the first body (100) has a reference scale (172) formed on one side of the outer periphery corresponding to the second body (110) and the second body (110) has a plurality of flight distance adjustment scales (170) formed along the outer periphery thereof corresponding to the first body (100), the plurality of flight distance adjustment scales (170) indicating head speeds proportional to the strength of the magnetic force and the distances (meters and yards) obtained in accordance with the head speeds.

6. The practice golf club according to claim 4, wherein a spring (190) is elastically mounted in a space between the rear portion of the second body (110) and the first body (100) so as to apply an elastic force to the respective bodies.

7. The practice golf club according to claim 1, wherein the return means comprises a return spring (160).

8. The practice golf club according to claim 1, wherein the return means comprises repulsive magnets (162a and 162b) mounted on the facing faces of the moving weight (140) and the cap (120) in such a manner as to face the same poles as each other, such that the moving weight (140) is returned to the original position by means of the repulsive forces of the repulsive magnets (162a and 162b).

9. The practice golf club according to claim 1, wherein the head (H) further comprises a plurality of auxiliary bodies (150) selectively screw-coupled between the second body 110 and the cap 120.

10. The practice golf club according to claim 1, wherein the cap (120) has a screw hole (15) formed at the center thereof in such a manner as to be coupled to a sound adjustment screw (158), and the end portion of the sound adjustment screw (158) is protruded from the face of the cap (120) or the auxiliary body (150) against which the moving weight (140) collides, such that the moving weight (140) collides with the end portion of the sound adjustment screw (158), thereby decreasing the strength of the impact sound of the moving weight (140).

11. The practice golf club according to claim 10, wherein the sound adjustment screw (158) has a sound suppressing member mounted on the end portion thereof.