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US 5,181,720 AGranted
Golf club construction
AssigneeHead Sports, Inc.
InventorsJohn T. Stites, III, Jerome M. Austry
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Abstract
A golf club includes a club shaft and a club head. The club shaft has a grip end and an opposed hollow end. The club head includes a body, a male pin and a female hosel disposed about the pin, the pin and the hosel together defining an annulus therebetween configured and dimensioned to receive therein the hollow shaft end. Adhesive is disposed both in a first bond line intermediate the inner surface of the hollow shaft end and the outer surface of the pin, and in a second bond line intermediate the outer surface of the hollow shaft end and the inner surface of the hosel.
Claims40
A golf club comprising:
- (A) a club shaft having a grip end and an opposed hollow end;
- (B) a club head having a body, a male pin and a female hosel disposed about said pin, said pin and said hosel together defining an annulus therebetween configured and dimensioned to receive therein said hollow shaft end;
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- (C) adhesive means disposed both in a first bond line intermediate the inner surface of said hollow shaft end and the outer surface of said pin and in a second bond line intermediate the outer surface of said hollow shaft end and the inner surface of said hosel.
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A golf club comprising:
- (A) a club shaft having a grip end and an opposed hollow end;
- (B) a club head having a body, a male pin and a female hosel disposed about said pin, said pin and said hosel together defining an annulus therebetween configured and dimensioned to receive therein said hollow shaft end, the overlap of said hosel and said hollow shaft end being not greater than 0.9 inch, said pin being a separate and distinct member from the remainder of said head, extending from the bottom of said body towards the top of said hosel in fixed relative disposition to the remainder of said head, and having a cross sectional area at the end thereof within said hollow shaft end less than the cross sectional area at the other end thereof;
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- (C) adhesive means disposed both in a first bond line intermediate the inner surface of said hollow shaft end and the outer surface of said pin and in a second bond line intermediate the outer surface of said hollow shaft end and the inner surface of said hosel, said first and second bond lines being of about equal length along the longitudinal axis of said shaft and not greater than 0.9 inch each.
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In a gold club including
- (A) a head having a sole, a through bore opening into said sole, and a hosel concentric with said through bore, and
- (B) a club shaft having a hollow distal end for connection to said club head;
- the improvement comprising
- (C) a pin mounted in said through bore and cooperating with said hosel to define a shaft-receiving annulus, said hosel, pin and shaft distal end being relatively configured and dimensioned such that said pin fits into said shaft distal end and said shaft distal end fits into said hosel, and
- (D) means for securing said shaft distal end in said shaft-receiving annulus.
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A golf club comprising:
- (A) a club shaft having a grip end and an opposed hollow shaft end;
- (B) a club head having a body, a male pin attached to said body and a female hosel formed integrally with said body and disposed about said pin, said pin and said hosel together defining an annulus therebetween configured and dimensioned to receive therein said shaft end, said shaft end being received in said annulus;
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- (C) means in said annulus for securing together said shaft end and said club head.
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In a golf club including
- (A) a club head having a sole, a bore and a hosel concentric with said bore, and
- (B) a club shaft having a hollow distal end for connection to said club head;
- the improvement comprising
- (C) a pin mounted in said bore and secured to said club head and cooperating with said hosel to define a shaft-receiving annulus, said hosel, pin and shaft distal end being relatively configured and dimensioned such that said shaft distal end fits into said shaft-receiving annulus;
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- (D) means for securing said shaft distal end in said shaft-receiving annulus.
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In a golf club including
- (A) a club head having a sole, a bore opening into said sole, and a hosel concentric with said through bore;
- (B) a club shaft having a hollow distal end for connection to said club head;
- (C) a pin mounted in said through bore and secured to said club head and cooperating with said hosel to define a shaft-receiving annulus, said hosel, pin and shaft distal end being relatively configured and dimensioned such that said shaft distal end fits into said shaft-receiving annulus;
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- (D) means for securing said shaft distal end in said shaft-receiving annulus;
- the improvement comprising:
- said pin being softer than both said head and said shaft.
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A golf club comprising:
- (A) a cast stainless steel club head having a sole, a through bore opening into said sole, and a female hosel concentric with said through bore;
- (B) a club shaft having a hollow distal end for connection to said club head;
- (C) a male pin of brass softer than both said head and said shaft mounted in said through bore and secured to said club head and cooperating with said hosel to define therebetween a shaft-receiving annulus, said hosel, pin and shaft distal end being relatively configured and dimensioned such that said pin fits into said shaft distal end and said shaft distal end fits into said hosel;
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- (D) adhesive means for securing said shaft distal end in said shaft-receiving annulus, said adhesive means being disposed both in a first bond line intermediate the inner surface of said shaft distal end and the outer surface of said pin and in a second bond line intermediate the outer surface of said shaft distal end and the inner surface of said hosel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.