US 12,186,635 B2
Iron with mass pad
Alex G. Woodward, San Francisco, CA (US); Thomas M. Malota, Gilbert, AZ (US); and Cole D. Brubaker, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed by KARSTEN MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed on Jun. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/330,328.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/365,942, filed on Jun. 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0390617 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 53/04 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 53/0475 (2013.01) [A63B 53/0408 (2020.08); A63B 53/0433 (2020.08); A63B 2053/0491 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A golf club head comprising:
a body comprising a strike face, a mass pad, a sole, a top rail, a rear wall, and a hosel;
the body enclosing a hollow interior cavity;
wherein the mass pad is located within the hollow interior cavity proximate the sole and the rear wall;
the mass pad comprises a toe mass, a heel mass, and a mass pad central portion between the toe mass and the heel mass;
a weight bar formed separately from the body and coupled thereto;
wherein the weight bar is fully enclosed within the interior cavity;
wherein the weight bar discontinuously engages the mass pad, such that the weight bar is attached to the mass pad at a plurality of discrete attachment locations;
wherein the mass pad is the only portion of the body in contact with the weight bar; and
wherein the plurality of discrete attachment locations comprises a first attachment location on a forward surface of the mass pad central portion and a second attachment location on the toe mass.