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US 6,210,290 B1Granted
Golf club and weighting system
AssigneeCallaway Golf Company
InventorsJoel B. Erickson, John G. Guard, James F. Dooley, M. Grace Hohn Pimentel, Thomas J. DiMarco
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Abstract
A golf club head having a defined internal cavity, and a golf club head containing a bi-material weight having a nonhomogeneous structure. A method to add the bi-material weight to the golf club entails heating, vibration and cooling to produce the nonhomogeneous structure.
Claims5
A golf club head comprising:
- a front surface, a rear surface, a toe region, a heel region, a top surface and a bottom surface, the rear surface forming a first cavity,
- a front wall, a rear wall, a ceiling wall and a floor wall defining a second cavity having a gap between the ceiling wall and the floor wall, wherein the gap decreases to a first minimum in the toe region and decreases to a second minimum in the heel region.
An iron golf club head comprising:
- a front surface, a rear surface, a toe region, a heel region, a top surface and a bottom surface, the rear surface forming a first cavity,
- a front wall, a rear wall, a ceiling wall and a bottom wall defining a second cavity adjacent the bottom surface, and
- a bi-metal material disposed within the second cavity, wherein the bi-metal material comprises a plurality of tungsten alloy spheres to form a discontinuous phase, and a bismuth-tin solder to form a continuous phase, and
- an undercut recess located directly rearwardly of the rear surface to intersect the first cavity and extending outwardly from the first cavity toward the top surface, the bottom surface, the toe region and the heel region.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.