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US 5,674,132 AGranted
Golf club head with rebound control insert
OwnerDale P. Fisherinventor
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A golf club providing improved control of distance and direction of a golf ball impacted by the club includes a resilient insert having a controlled rebound factor fitted into a recess provided in the face of the club head. In the preferred embodiment, the insert comprises one or more thin laminations, each having an intrinsic rebound factor and thickness selected to yield in combination an overall composite ball-impacting rebound factor that may be varied over a relatively wide range of rebound factors, preferably which are an approximately linear function of desired travel range of the impacted ball. Also in the preferred embodiment, the inserts are made of a material in which the hardness may be varied somewhat independently from rebound factor, thus allowing construction of a club having a desired ball-impacting feel as well as selected rebound factor.
A golf club head comprising a body having a front face and a resilient pad affixed to said front face of said body, said pad having an outer surface defining an intended ball impact region and having a rebound factor (RF) selected from a first plurality of values and a thickness selected from a second plurality of values so as to provide in combination with said body a controlled composite rebound factor (CRF) for a golf ball impacted by said club head, said composite rebound factor being related to the distance from an intended target by a pre-determined relationship.
A golf club head including a body having an upper wall surface, a lower sole surface and having a front face adapted to impact a golf ball, said face having formed therein a recess in which is fitted a rebound control insert structure comprising at least a first insert made of a resilient material having a rebound factor (RF) selected from a first plurality of values and a thickness selected from a second plurality of values so as to provide in combination with said body a controlled composite rebound factor (CRF) for a golf ball impacted by said club head, said composite rebound factor being related to the distance from an intended target by a pre-determined relationship.
A series of golf clubs, each of said clubs comprising;
A series of golf clubs, each of said clubs having in the head thereof at least one resilient insert forming a ball impacting region of the face of said club head, wherein each of said inserts is formulated from a material to effect a pre-selected and reproducible intrinsic rebound factor (RF), and the thickness of each of said inserts is selected to yield in combination with said intrinsic rebound factor a resultant, composite rebound factor (CRF) of a ball impacted by the insert region of said club, said composite rebound factor being related to the distance from an intended target by a pre-determined relationship.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.