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(11) EP 0 622 094 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
27.09.1995 Bulletin 1995/39

(43) Date of publication A2:
02.11.1994 Bulletin 1994/44

(21) Application number: 94302226.9

(22) Date of filing: 25.03.1994
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: A63B 53/04
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE DK FR IE NL SE

(30) Priority: 26.03.1993 GB 9306281

(71) Applicant: DUNLOP LIMITED
London SW1P 2PL (GB)

(72) Inventors:
  • Shaw, Michael
    Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 2DJ (GB)
  • Machin, Brian Francis
    Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 5QQ (GB)

(74) Representative: Sparrow, Alvar Alfred et al
BTR Group Business Services, Intellectual Property, PO Box 504
Erdington, Birmingham B24 9QH
Erdington, Birmingham B24 9QH (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Golf club heads


    (57) A golf iron head has a main body and, securely attached to at least part of the front face of the main body, a face insert (5) having a flexural modulus in the range 1 to 20 GPa, especially a face insert of a thermoplastic composite of nylon reinforced with glass fibre. There is also provided a golf iron head wherein the face insert is located in a correspondingly shaped recess in the front face of the main body and is mechanically interlocked with the recess by peripheral mating flange and groove formations, especially partial dovetail shaped formations.






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