Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Club or club support
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-27
2001-08-28
Passaniti, Sebastiano (Department: 3711)
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Club or club support
C473S300000, C473S313000, C473S316000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06280346
ABSTRACT:
STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT
Not Applicable.
REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE APPENDIX
Not Applicable.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Technical Field
This invention relates to a golf putter, and more specifically to a golf putter with a mallet head, a shaft covered over most of its length with a tapering grip, and a goose-neck juncture between the head and the shaft.
2. Prior Art
Among the various clubs used by a golfer playing a round of golf is the putter, most often used on the green to cause the ball to roll to the cup. The putter has a face for striking the ball that is substantially perpendicular to the ground so that the ball when stroked will roll and not be elevated into the air, as is the case with a chip shot made with a club that has a face at a greater angle from perpendicular. Some putter designs have been made where the face is not precisely at 90 degrees to the ground, but rather is a few degrees +/− from 90 degrees so as to provide top spin or, alternatively, to provide a slight elevation to the ball. Regardless of this feature a putter is a very important and necessary club for every golfer to own.
There are a variety of designs including shape, material of construction, grip, markings on the club head and most importantly, weight to appeal to the taste of every golfer. One popular style is a mallet head, which as the name implies, resembles a portion of a mallet (such as a croquet mallet or a carpenter's mallet). Generally a mallet head putter has come to include a variety of shapes, quite frequently any bulbous shape, such as an apple or a potato, that has been cut by two intersecting planes to provide a flat sole and a flat face. The putter of this invention is a mallet head type, with the principal features distinguishing it from any known in the past. These principal features include the design of the shaft and grip, and the design of the connecting portions of the head and the shaft.
It is an object of this invention to provide a novel golf putter. It is another object of this invention to provide a novel mallet head putter having a long grip with at least one flat side and a gooseneck junction joining the head to the shaft. Still other objects will become apparent from the more detailed description which follows.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a golf putter having a bulbous mallet head with a flat sole and a flat face intersecting at an acute angle, and a cylindrical shaft having its lower end inserted into an internal horizontal recess having an entryway at the back side of the head; the shaft being covered over substantially all of its length with a grip having a larger cross-section at its upper end and reducing along its tapered length.
In specific and preferred embodiments the shaft is tilted away from the vertical in the general plane of the face of the head at an angle of 10 degrees to 15 degrees from a position perpendicular to the sole. In another specific and preferred embodiment the recess in the head for receiving the lower end of the shaft has an axis parallel to the sole at a distance above the lower surface of the sole that approximates the radius of a golf ball i.e., 0.8 to 1.2 inches. Another specific and preferred embodiment is found in the grip that covers the shaft. The grip extends substantially the full straight length of the shaft. At its lower end the shaft enters a hosel bent into a gooseneck shape to join the horizontal recess in the head to the generally vertical shaft. The grip is a long thin tapering shape having at least one flat side at any location along its length. This permits the putter to be used in a “side-saddle” position facing the hole or the more common position facing transverse to the putting line.
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Passaniti Sebastiano
Yeager Arthur G.
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