Apparatus for pulling golf club shafts from club heads
OwnerPerry C. Marshallinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus that separates a golf club head and a golf club shaft to which it is adhesively secured. A hosel push member is positioned in abutting relation to the hosel of the club head. An externally threaded guide tube is slideably inserted over the hand grip of a golf club shaft and is positioned in trailing relation to the hosel push member. A drive member in the form of a coil spring or a rigid tube is ensleeved around the guide tube, and a drive member push member screw threadedly engages the threads on the guide tube so that advancement of the drive member push member applies pressure upon the drive member. Heating the hosel after application of pressure onto the drive member weakens the adhesive and results in separation of the club head from the shaft.
Claims9
An apparatus that separates a golf club shaft and a hosel of the golf club head that are secured to one another by an adhesive, comprising:
- a guide tube member having a diameter sufficient to axially receive therein the shaft and hand grip of a golf club;
- a hosel push member positioned at a leading end of said guide tube member, said hosel push member having a leading end adapted to abuttingly engage an annular shoulder defined by a juncture of said shaft and said hosel, said hosel push member having a trailing end slideably received within said leading end of said guide tube member, said hosel push member having a radially outwardly extending flange positioned between the leading and trailing ends of said hosel push member, and said leading end of said guide tube disposed in abutting relation to a trailing side of said flange;
- said guide tube having external threads formed substantially along its extent;
- an internally threaded drive means push member disposed in screwthreaded engagement with said external threads of said guide tube so that said internally threaded drive means push member is displaced in a trailing-to-leading direction toward said hosel when rotated in a first direction and in a leading-to-trailing direction away from said hosel when rotated in a second direction;
- a drive means disposed in ensleeving relation to said guide tube, said drive means having a leading end abutting said trailing side of said flange of said hosel push member and said drive means having a trailing end abutting a leading side of said drive means push member;
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- an anti-rotation means secured to said shaft in abutting relation to a trailing end of said guide tube, said anti-rotation means adapted to prevent rotation of said guide tube upon rotation of said drive means push member;
- whereby advancement of said internally threaded drive means push member in a trailing-to-leading direction applies pressure to said drive means in said trailing-to-leading direction and hence said hosel push member and said hosel in said trailing-to-leading direction so that said hosel separates from said shaft when said adhesive is thereafter weakened by application of heat to said hosel.
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