US1615038A

US1615038A - Golf club

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Publication number: US1615038A
Application number: US130860A
Authority: US
Inventors: Jr John Reuter
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-08-23
Filing date: 1926-08-23
Publication date: 1927-01-18
Anticipated expiration: 1944-01-18

Description

Jan. 1s, 1927. ,038

J.REUTER,JR

GOLF CLUB F i1ed August 23, 1926 24 922601 kn Waltz K71,

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Patented Jan. 18, 1927.

UNITED STATES JOHN BEUTER, JR., 013 DICKINSON, NORTH DAKOTA.

GOLF CLUB.

Application filed August 23, 1926. Serial No. 130,860.

This invention relates to golf clubs and more particularly .to that kind of golf club commonly known as the putter. One of the objects of this invention is to eliminate certain objectionable features now present, in golf clubs, particularly in a certain type of putter, and to otherwise improve upon the same. In the type of putter referred to, the driving face is flat throughout, and the upper edge of said fiat driving surface is in the form of a straight line extending from end to end of the driving face portion, which straight line is very likely toconfuse the person using the putter in making the stroke. From actual experience it has been observed that the eye is very apt to travel along the whole length of the straight line so that instead of placing the center of the driving face against the ball and striking the ball with the center of the driving face, the person using the putter is very likely to strike the ball near one end of the driving face, with the result that instead of driving the ball in the direction intended, it is driven out of the true course. In accordance with my invention, I have eliminated the long straight upper edge for the driving face, and employ a curved top face at the toe end of the head, and make the we end of the driving face slightly curved backwardly, where by the long straight line disappears, as it were, leaving only a short approximately straight line at the middle portion of the upper edge ofthe driving face Which serves to guide the person using the putter, in locating the same with respect to the ball and in making the put. With these objects in view this invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter more fully set forth in detail and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawing accompanying this specification, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a putter embodying a simple form of the present invention with the shaft or handle partly broken away; Fig. 2 is a plan of the putter with the handle partly broken away; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the putter with the handle partly broken away and Fig. l is an end View looking in the direction of the arrow 4 in Fig. 3.

Referring to said drawing, which illustrates a simple embodiment of the present invention, the reference character 5 designates the head of the golf club and 6 a fragment of the shaft or handle which is secured thereto in the usual manner. The golf club illustrated is one commonly known as the putter and is of that type which employs a rather wide head having the driving face 7 and. the curved rear edge 8. The part of the head which contains the driving face is somewhat higher than the rear portion of the head in order to obtain the necessary width of the driving face and theusual practice is to make putters .of this type, of shape in cross section, the necessary height being obtained by forming a bead or rib 9 on the upper side of the substantially fiat horizontal portion 10. The sole is approximately fiat and extends from the lower edge of the driving face to the rear curved side of the head.

The middle portion 11 of the driving face is flat, but the end portion 12 of a driving face, at the toe, slopes or curves backward gently towards the rear of the club, and if desired the end portion 13 adjacent the neck 14: of the head may curve back slightly. The upper face of the head or rib 9 is curved or crowned very slightly at the middle portion of the head, but the

end portions

15, 16 slope or curve downwardly towards the toe and heel of the head thereby forming the corner lines 17 18 between the driving face and upper face of the bead or rib, which curves extend downwards and backwards towards the back of the head, thereby eliminating any long, straight upper edge for the driving face and leaving only a short substantially straight portion at the middle of the head. As is usual the driving face slopes backward slightly from the sole to the top of the head.

In putting with a putter embodying the present invention, the user in placing the club behind the ball is able to concentrate upon the middle portion of the head, because that part of the upper edge of the driving face, which defines the middle portion of the club, is approximately straight and is quite short and the remainder of said upper edge slopes away or disappears as it were from view. In other Words, the person putting with the club, is not concerned with any long line running from end to end of the driving face, but his attention is directed by the short approximately straight portion at the middle of the driving face, which makes it much easier and simpler for him to properly locate the club with respect to the ball and to improve his putting strokes.

It is well known that putting is one of the difiicult features of the game of golf and that many strokes have to be made in holing the ball after it has been driven upon the green. lVith the present putter it is a Simple matter for experts, or even ordinary players, to improve their game.

More or less variation of the exact details of construction is possible without departing from the spirit of this invention; I desire, therefore, not to limit myself to the e act form of the construction shown and described, but intend, in the following claims, to point out all of the invention disclosed herein.

1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 7

1. A putter having a head formed substantially L shaped in cross section, and

having a driving face which is flat solely at its middle portion and merges into a bacle wardly curved part at the toe end, the upper face of the head adjacent the driving face being curved downwardly at the toe end and said backwardly curved portion of the driving face and downwardly curved portion of the top face forming a corner, which curves gently downwards and backwards.

2. A putter having a substantially horizontal, flat head formed with a lengthwise extending head at the driving face of the head, said driving face being flat solely at its middle portion and merging into backwardly curved parts at the heel and toe ends, and the upper face of the bead having downwardly curved parts at the heel and toe ends forming corner lines at said heel and toe which slope gently downwards and backwards from the drivin face.

Joint REUTER, JR.