IP Library Granted Patent US 8,216,084
Granted Patent B2
US 8,216,084 · App. 13/011,964 · Granted Jul 10, 2012

Interchangeable shaft and club head connection system

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Patent No.
US 8,216,084
App. No.
13/011,964
Granted
Jul 10, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a golf club including a shaft, a club head and several devices for releasably connecting the shaft to the club head.

Claims (15)

1. A golf club comprising:

a shaft;

a club head; and

a connection system releasably connecting the shaft to the club head, wherein the connection system is formed by a three-part hosel that further comprises;

an anti-rotation device, having a first serrated surface, that fixedly connects to a heel portion of the club head;

a first hosel part, having a second serrated surface and a first thread, that fixedly connects to a terminal end of the shaft; and

a second hosel part, having a second thread, that rotatably couples to the anti-rotation device,

wherein the first thread is adapted to engage the second thread to mate the first serrated surface with the second serrated surface to minimize relative rotation between the shaft and the club head; and

wherein the first serrated surface and the second serrated surface are the only contact surface between the first hosel part and the anti-rotation device.

2. The golf club of claim 1 , wherein the anti-rotation device is at least partially enclosed by the second hosel part.

3. The golf club of claim 1 , wherein the anti-rotation device protrudes out from a bottom surface of the second hosel part to infix with the club head.

4. The golf club of claim 3 , wherein the second hosel part has an opening near the bottom surface of the second hosel part, allowing the anti-rotation device to protrude.

5. The golf club of claim 1 , wherein the first thread is an external thread located on an external surface of the first hosel part.

6. The golf club of claim 5 , wherein the second thread in an internal thread, located on an internal surface of the second hosel part.

7. The golf club of claim 6 , wherein the external first thread and the internal second thread will only fully engage one another when the first serrated surface and the second serrated surface completely engage one another.

Assignments (6)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2022
From: ACUSHNET COMPANY
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 061099/0236 →
ASSIGNMENT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS (ASSIGNS 039506-0030) Recorded Aug 3, 2022
From: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS RESIGNING ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS SUCCESSOR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 061521/0414 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (027345/0877) Recorded Sep 7, 2016
From: KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK, NEW YORK BRANCH
To: ACUSHNET COMPANY
Reel/Frame 039939/0087 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 28, 2016
From: ACUSHNET COMPANY
To: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 039506/0030 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 8, 2011
From: ACUSHNET COMPANY
To: KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK, NEW YORK BRANCH
Reel/Frame 027345/0877 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2011
From: BENNETT, THOMAS ORRIN; BURNETT, MICHAEL SCOTT; DE LA CRUZ, NOAH; GOLDEN, CHARLES E.; HARVELL, CHRISTOPHER D.; KNUTSON, SCOTT A.; MURPHY, STEPHEN S.; SCOTT, KENNETH C.; CALLINAN, DANIEL S.
To: ACUSHNET COMPANY
Reel/Frame 025682/0283 →