Salomon S.a.

Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

Jack Desbiolles

Denis Gasquet

Pierre Feche

Andre Pernelle

A method of making a finished product, a semi-finished product for making the finished product, as well as the products made thereby. The semi-finished product includes at least one surface having a plurality of recesses, or alveoli, therein, in which the method includes determining a depth of material to be removed from the surface during a finishing process, and forming each of the plurality of recesses in the surface to have a substantially cylindrical section which extends for a predetermined depth within the surface which is greater than or equal to the predetermined depth of material. The substantially cylindrical section of each of the plurality of recesses extends along an axis substantially perpendicular to the surface of the product. During an abrasion step, material is removed from the surface of the semi-finished product to a depth less than or equal to the predetermined depth. Accordingly, regardless of the specific depth of material removed from the surface proximate the plurality of alveoli, the respective contours of the alveoli with the surface remain substantially the same. The semi-finished product is adapted to be used in the manufacture of a finished product such as a golf club head or a golf club handle.

Product having alveoli, semi-finished product therefor and method of

A golf club and a method of assembling a golf club which includes a shaft having an assembly part for supporting a head of the club, and a head for attachment to the shaft, the head having an assembly part for engaging with the assembly part of the shaft. At the time of attachment of the head to the shaft, the head is selectively positionable at one of a plurality of angles. The present invention permits the golf club to be configured, e.g., as a function of the playing position of the golfer such that the head of the golf club is permitted to remain substantially flat with respect to the hitting surface.

Golf club capable of selective angle modification between the shaft and

An apparatus for adjusting the longitudinal position of a safety binding of a ski including a base plate attached to the binding and adapted to longitudinally slide in a guide on the ski. The base plate has a plurality of teeth adapted to engage a plurality of notches in the guide. Also provided is an apparatus for locking the teeth in the guide including a locking lever, a locking cam, and an elastic bearing. The locking lever is pivotally attached to the base plate by a first journal. The cam includes a second journal pivotally mounted on the base plate to rotate between locked and unlocked positions. Either the first or second journal is housed in the elastic bearing. Rotation of the cam from the unlocked to the locked position rotates the locking lever to displace the teeth into the notches and longitudinally displaces the journal housed in the elastic bearing, thereby compressing the bearing and biasing the teeth against displacement out of the notches. An element is provided for preventing substantial displacement of the journal housed by the elastic bearing in the transverse direction. This element may be the bearing itself or an abutment on the base plate for preventing transverse displacement of a cylindrical surface attached to the journal.

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