Golf club head with hosel hole cover
AssigneeAcushnet Company
InventorsKyle A. Carr, Sang Yi
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Abstract
A golf club head with a hosel hole cover that helps improve the performance of the golf club head is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a golf club head having a hosel hole cover at a bottom portion of an interchangeable connection system that not only provides improved performance of the golf club head by strategically utilizing an existing opening to adjust the weighting of a golf club head, but it also improves the aerodynamics of the golf club head by eliminating undesirable recesses that could be detrimental to the aerodynamics of a golf club head.
Claims13
A golf club head comprising:
- a body portion further comprising a crown portion, a sole portion, a heel portion, and a toe portion;
- a hosel region located near a heel portion of said golf club head, said hosel region further comprising;
- an upper end having a releasable hosel mechanism,
- a lower end having a hosel hole, said hosel hole further comprising;
- one or more non-threaded recessed undercuts along a side wall of said hosel hole,
- a threaded screw, adapted to engage said releasable hosel mechanism, wherein said threaded screw further comprises;
- a screw head, and
- a circular recess, located circumferentially around said screw head,
- wherein said circlip is adapted to engage said circular recess of said screw head,
- a hosel hole cover, adapted to substantially cover an entirety of an internal surface said hosel hole, and
- a retention mechanism, adapted to secure said hosel hole cover to said golf club head, wherein said retention mechanism comprises one or more non-threaded protrusions,
- a circlip, adapted to engage said threaded screw to retain said hosel hole cover to said threaded screw, and
- wherein said one or more non-threaded protrusions are adapted to engage said one or more non-threaded recessed undercuts to secure said hosel hole cover to said golf club head.
A golf club head comprising:
- a body portion further comprising a crown portion, a sole portion, a heel portion, and a toe portion;
- a hosel region located near a heel portion of said golf club head, said hosel region further comprising;
- an upper end having a releasable hosel mechanism,
- a lower end having a hosel hole,
- a threaded screw, adapted to engage said releasable hosel mechanism, wherein said threaded screw further comprises;
- a screw head, and
- a circular recess, located circumferentially around said screw head,
- wherein said circlip is adapted to engage said circular recess of said screw head,
- a hosel hole cover, adapted to substantially cover an entirety of an internal surface said hosel hole, and
- a circlip,
- wherein said circlip is adapted to engage both said hosel hole cover and said threaded screw to retain said hosel hole cover to said threaded screw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.