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US 4,826,168 AGranted
Interchangeable and adjustable golf club grip
OwnerGeorge W. McGuire, Virginia L. Shallenbergerinventors
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OwnerGeorge W. McGuire, Virginia L. Shallenbergerinventors
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A golf club, especially a putter, has a grip portion with a shaft-receiving chamber having a cross-sectional dimension to enable the grip to be freely rotatable around the shaft. The grip is fastened to the shaft by means of an axial locking mechanism mounted at an upper portion of the grip and concealed by an end cap. The locking mechanism generally consists of a threaded member axially mounted through a transverse wall at an upper portion of the grip which engages a fastening lug attached to the shaft. In a preferred embodiment, locking of the grip to the club is effected by means of an expandable skirt or plug portion of the grip which inserts into the end of the club shaft, and which is compressed to laterally expand the plug to preclude relative movement of the grip and the shaft. Compression of the plug may be actuated by a nut and bolt or a lever-operated cam mechanism.
A golf club comprises an elongate cylindrical shaft having a club head at one end thereof,
A golf club comprises an elongate hollow cylindrical shaft having a club head at one end thereof,
A grip member for a golf club, said golf club having an elongate hollow rigid cylindrical shaft connecting the grip member with a club head, said grip member having a body portion and an elongate shaft-receiving chamber at a lower portion thereof, the chamber being dimensioned to rotate freely about the shaft, an end portion of the shaft extending into the shaft-receiving chamber, wall means at an upper portion of the body portion extending transverse to the shaft-receiving chamber and enclosing an upper end thereof, resilient plug means extending from the wall means interiorly of the hollow cylindrical shaft, said wall means and plug means having a straight internal passageway extending coaxially with the shaft-receiving chamber, actuating means movable between a compressed position and a released position for longitudinally compressing the plug means, thereby causing lateral expansion of the plug means, the shaft being freely rotatable within the shaft-receiving chamber when the actuating means is in the released position and being rotatably fixed when the actuating means is in the compressed position.
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