Patent Application
20050044691
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a forged golf iron club head, and more particularly to a method for manufacturing a golf iron club head that has an enhanced performance with a larger head size and a more permeate weight to gain an excellent accuracy and to prolong the distance for golf playing.
2. Description of Related Art
The forged iron clubs have been used for over 100 years, and actually the first iron club head was made by forging. The golf players always like the soft feeling and solid touch of the forged iron club head, especially the good golf players with low handicap. So, that is the reason why there are over 50% of professional golf players who are using the forged iron club heads for playing into the golf tourments.
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a) Small Head Volume and Small Profile Size.
The metal's density becomes higher after forged process, for example the original density of carbon steel before forging is at 7.80 g/cc, but it becomes 7.95 g/cc after forging process. So, the iron club head has a limitation for designing the proper larger size since the higher metal's density, especially the small head size causes the difficulty for playing the forged long irons.
b) Not Versatile in Design.
For the forged back cavity shape design iron, it is very difficult to design a deep and wide back cavity shape since the metal's flow from forging is not as easy as the investment casting. So, the forged iron head just can be designed with a simple and shallow back cavity shape. But, it is difficult for creating the good weight distribution design to improve to gain more forgiveness.
In addition, the forged iron head cannot design to have complicate shape and construction, just like the thin face wall thickness design or the undercut back cavity design.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention tends to provide a method for manufacturing a golf iron club head to mitigate or obviate the aforementioned problems.
The main objective of the invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a forged golf iron club head to enhance the performance and to make the forged iron head to be an “easy hit” iron club head. The method for manufacturing a forged golf club head has acts of forming a body, integrally forming a striking face with a hosel and combining the striking face with the body to achieve a golf club head with a striking face.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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In such a method, the golfer's hitting power is transformed from shaft to the striking face (12) through the hosel (14) because the forged hosel (14) and striking face (12) are formed to one piece. The Forged hosel (14) and the striking face (12) offer the pure energy transmission as the pure forged iron head. In addition, the force applied to the striking face (12) from a golf ball will be directly transmitted to the hosel (14). The striking force provided by the golf club will not influence the combination between the body (10) and the striking face (12). Consequently, the structural strength of the golf club head is enhanced, and the useful life of the golf club head is prolonged.
In addition, because the body (10) is formed in an investment casting process, the shape for the body (10) is easy to be versatile and easy to design with more permeate weight for deep center of gravity or low center of gravity function. In another words, the iron club head made by the method in accordance with the present invention has a larger profile size than a conventional forged iron club head at a same weight. The iron club head has an enhanced performance with a large head size and a permeate weight to gain an excellent accuracy and to prolong the distance for golf ball flying.
Furthermore, with a large volume and profile size, the iron club head can be designed with a deep and wide back cavity shape or a complicate shape and construction, such as a thin face wall thickness design or an undercut back cavity design. Therefore, the iron club head made by the method in accordance with the present invention is versatile in design.
Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
