Patents by Inventor Robert W. Vokey
Robert W. Vokey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7976404Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing and surface roughening to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Charles E. Golden, Peter J. Gilbert, Robert W. Vokey
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Publication number: 20110159985Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. Grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio. Preferred values for these dimensions are provided. A golf club head having a variety of groove types and a set of golf clubs with grooves varying among the individual clubs of the set are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2011Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Charles E. Golden, Robert W. Vokey
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Patent number: 7955189Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Robert W Vokey, Peter J Gilbert, M Scott Burnett, Christopher R Kays
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Patent number: 7918747Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Inventors: Gregory D. Johnson, Robert W. Vokey
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Patent number: 7905797Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. Grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio. Preferred values for these dimensions are provided. A golf club head having a variety of groove types and a set of golf clubs with grooves varying among the individual clubs of the set are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Charles E. Golden, Robert W. Vokey
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Publication number: 20100285898Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Charles E. Golden, Robert W. Vokey
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Publication number: 20100190572Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Robert W. Vokey, Peter J. Gilbert, M. Scott Burnett, Christopher R. Kays
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Patent number: 7758449Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Charles E. Golden, Robert W. Vokey
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Patent number: 7658685Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Robert W. Vokey, Peter J. Gilbert, M. Scott Burnett, Christopher R. Kays
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Patent number: 7653980Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of forming a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Robert W. Vokey, Peter J. Gilbert, M. Scott Burnett, Christopher R. Kays
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Publication number: 20090318243Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing and surface roughening to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Charles E. Golden, Peter J. Gilbert, Robert W. Vokey
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Publication number: 20090264217Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventors: Gregory D. Johnson, Robert W. Vokey
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Publication number: 20090082130Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventors: Robert W. Vokey, Peter J. Gilbert, M. Scott Burnett, Christopher R. Kays
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Patent number: 7473187Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Robert W. Vokey, Peter J. Gilbert, M. Scott Burnett, Christopher R. Kays
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Publication number: 20080242442Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. Grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio. Preferred values for these dimensions are provided. A golf club head having a variety of groove types and a set of golf clubs with grooves varying among the individual clubs of the set are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Charles E. Golden, Robert W. Vokey
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Publication number: 20080242443Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra. The face may be selectively textured to enhance certain shots that the golfer may perform. This may include providing a plurality of distinct sets of texturing to accommodate a plurality of different shots. The grooves may contain a plurality of portions, including a radiused or angled portion, a portion having substantially parallel walls, a portion having a v-shape, and a curved portion. The grooves may also be characterized by various dimensions, including draft angle, inclusive side wall angle, width, depth, cross-sectional area, spacing, and pitch ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Charles E. Golden, Robert W. Vokey
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Patent number: 7273422Abstract: The present invention is directed to a golf club head with an improved striking surface. The grooves are machined into the strike surface with tight tolerances. The grooves have sharp edges, radiused ends, and a draft angle between about 2° and 12°. The striking face is machined such that it has a uniform texture with a roughness of more than 40 Ra.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Robert W. Vokey, Peter J. Gilbert, M. Scott Burnett, Christopher R. Kays
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Patent number: 5676606Abstract: A golf putter head has a main body portion with a front, striking face, a lower, sole face, a heel, a toe, and a rear face, and an arcuate indent or recess in the sole face extending out to the outer perimeter of the heel, toe and rear face. The main body portion is of a first material, and an arcuate weighting member of a second material heavier than the first material is secured in the indent. The weighting member has a lower face flush with the sole face of the main body portion, and an outer peripheral face flush with the adjacent outer perimeter portions of the rear face, heel and toe of the body portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1995Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: The Founders Club Golf CompanyInventors: Barry M. Schaeffer, Robert W. Vokey, Jeffrey D. Sheets
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Patent number: 5225407Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a compound which acts as an antagonist of 5-HT at 5-HT.sub.3 receptors in the treatment of autism or another disorder originating in childhood in which there is mental retardation.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1992Date of Patent: July 6, 1993Assignee: Glaxo Group LimitedInventors: Nigel R. Oakley, Ian H. Coates, Peter C. North, Alexander W. Oxford
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Patent number: D382615Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: The Founders Club Golf CompanyInventors: Barry M. Schaeffer, Robert W. Vokey
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Patent number: D400945Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1997Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Peter J. Gilbert, Robert W. Vokey, Terrill R. McCabe, Scott A. Knutson, Donald D. Anton, Erik Smith