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US 5,505,450 AGranted
Golf club heads with means for imparting corrective action
OwnerAlfred O. Stuffinventor
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Abstract
Golf clubs are fitted with either plural grooves extending along the face in at least two non-parallel directions or with pads, or both, for purposes of achieving a variety of different corrective actions to a golf ball struck by the face.
Claims7
A golf club head comprising:
- a hosel for receiving a club shaft;
- a face defining a toe portion spaced from the hosel and a heel portion adjacent the hosel wherein a sweet spot is defined between the heel and the toe portions;
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- a resilient pad affixed to the face for receiving a ball striking the face, the pad having a non-uniform thickness resulting in a non-uniform resiliency for providing a corrective action to the ball when the ball strikes alternate positions of the face, the pad further having a plurality of non-parallel grooves extending along a surface of the pad generally from the heel portion to the toe portion of the face, the grooves further changing the resiliency for providing further corrective action to the ball.
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A golf club head comprising:.
- a hosel for receiving a club shaft;
- a face defining a toe portion spaced from the hosel and a heel portion adjacent the hosel wherein a sweet spot is defined between the heel and the toe portions;
- a resilient pad affixed to the face for receiving a ball striking the face, the pad having a non-uniform thickness resulting in a non-uniform resiliency for providing a corrective action to the ball when the ball strikes alternate positions of the face;
- the pad further having a first set of grooves running along a surface of the pad generally from the heel portion to the toe portion, and a second set of grooves extending along the pad surface, the second groove set generally orthogonal to the first groove set.
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A golf club head comprising:
- a hosel for receiving a club shaft;
- a face defining a toe portion spaced from the hosel and a heel portion adjacent the hosel wherein a sweet spot is defined between the heel and the toe portions;
- and
- a resilient pad affixed to the face for receiving a ball striking the face, the pad having a non-uniform thickness resulting in a non-uniform resiliency for providing a corrective action to the ball when the ball strikes alternate positions of the face, the pad further having a plurality of grooves within a surface of the pad, the grooves generally orthogonal to an imaginary plane passing through the head from the heel portion to the toe portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.