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Metal wood club

  • US 9,987,528 B2
  • Filed: 08/28/2017
  • Issued: 06/05/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A golf club head comprising:

  • a body having a face, a sole, a crown, and a skirt joining said face, sole and crown, said body having a body center of gravity;

    said body having a coordinate system with an x-axis located horizontal to the club face, a y-axis located vertical to the club face, and a z-axis located through the club face;

    wherein said body comprises a cavity;

    wherein said cavity comprises an open end and a terminal end, said terminal end opposite said open end;

    an elongate weighted insert configured to reside in said cavity, said weighted insert having a first end and a second end opposite said first end;

    wherein said cavity is configured to receive said weighted insert through said open end in both a first orientation where said first end is adjacent said terminal end of said cavity and a second orientation where said second end is adjacent said terminal end of said cavity;

    a removable weight member configured to be removably affixed to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert;

    wherein said removable weight member is magnetically attracted to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert;

    wherein said weighted insert has a biased weighted insert center of gravity location when said removable weight member is removably affixed to said first end of said weighted insert and said weighted insert has a neutral weighted insert center of gravity location, within 1 millimeter of a center of said weighted insert, when said removable weight member is removably affixed to said second end of said weighted insert;

    a head locking feature located at said open end of said cavity;

    an insert locking member configured to engage said head locking feature and lock said weighted insert in said cavity;

    wherein said head locking feature comprises female threads and wherein said insert locking member comprises male threads configured to engage said female threads;

    wherein said weighted insert comprises;

    a tube member;

    a heavy member affixed to said tube member, said heavy member located at said first end of said weighted insert; and

    a lightweight member affixed to said tube member, said lightweight member located at a second end of said weighted insert, opposite said first end; and

    wherein said lightweight member and said heavy member are each configured to receive said removable weight member;

    wherein said heavy member has a mass greater than a mass of said lightweight member;

    wherein said weighted insert comprises a longitudinal insert axis extending along a center of said weighted insert and passing through said first end and said second end of said weighted insert;

    wherein said heavy member comprises a heavy member protrusion extending outwards along said longitudinal insert axis and away from a center of said weighted insert;

    wherein said lightweight member comprises a lightweight member protrusion extending outwards along said longitudinal insert axis and away from a center of said weighted insert;

    wherein said removable weight member comprises a bore configured to engage said heavy member protrusion and said lightweight member protrusion;

    wherein said removable weight member comprises a magnet inside said bore;

    wherein said removable weight member comprises a protrusion opposite said bore configured to engage said terminal end of said cavity and said insert locking member.

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