The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Inventor:
Richard Strozyk, Huntertown, IN (US);
Assignee:
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 43/28 (2006.01); B29C 43/30 (2006.01); B29C 47/02 (2006.01); B29C 47/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for forming golf balls, wherein an extruder forms a continuous tubing of cover material and a continuous stream of golf ball cores are fed into the tubing and translated to an encasement station wherein the tubing/cover material is wrapped around each core and the encased core sealed off by a twisting or crimping procedure. The resulting product is placed into a compression mold and a two piece golf ball can be created without the need for the costly process of injection molding.