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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2015
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Nicholas M. Nardacci, Barrington, RI (US);
Michael R. Madson, Easton, MA (US);
David P. Hunt, Taunton, MA (US);
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a golf ball comprising of non-concentric arcs defining a non-planar parting line on its spherical surface resulting in having a large size disparity between non-circular dimples in one hemisphere and adjacent non-circular dimples from the opposing hemisphere. The parting line is produced by a pair of adjacent non-circular dimples, wherein μindicates the average non-circular dimple diameter and N indicates dimples from the Northern hemisphere and those from the Southern hemisphere are indicated by S. A large disparity may be created, if the following condition is satisfied: