Metal wood club
AssigneeAcushnet Company
InventorsThomas Orrin Bennett, Richard Sanchez, Peter Soracco, Richard L. Cleghorn
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Abstract
A golf club head comprising a body, wherein the body comprises a cavity, wherein the cavity comprises an open end and a terminal end, the terminal end opposite the open end, an elongate weighted insert configured to reside in the cavity, the weighted insert having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, wherein the cavity is configured to receive the weighted insert through the open end, a head locking feature located at the open end of the cavity, an insert locking member comprising an insert locking feature configured to engage the head locking feature and lock the weighted insert in the cavity.
Claims20
A golf club head comprising:
- a body having a face;
- 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;
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- 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;
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- a golf club head center of gravity shiftable between three locations in said golf club head depending on the orientation of said weighted insert and the location of said removable weight on said weight insert.
A weighted insert configured to reside within a golf club head, comprising:
- an elongate tube member;
- a heavy member affixed to said elongate tube member, said heavy member located at a first end of said weighted insert;
- a lightweight member affixed to said tube member, said lightweight member located at a second end of said weighted insert, opposite said first end;
- wherein said heavy member has a mass greater than a mass of said lightweight member;
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- a removable weight member configured to be removably affixed to each of said heavy member and said lightweight member.
A golf club head comprising:
- a body having a face;
- 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;
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- a removable weight member configured to be removably affixed to each of said first end and said second end of said weighted insert;
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- a golf club head center of gravity shiftable between three locations in said golf club head depending on the orientation of said weighted insert and the location of said removable weight on said weight insert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.