Appeal No. 2000-0082
Application No. 08/745,472
of the user of the head (Col. 3, Lns. 59-61).
Clearly with the amount of golfers there are many
types of swing errors which golfers need to correct
for. Some golfers have a tendency to allow the face
of a putter head to open when impacting a ball which
causes errors in a putt. To correct this, these
golfers add additional weight to the toe portion of
a head to give a toe more momentum and thus the face
will be less likely to open when impacting a ball.
Other golfers have a tendency to allow a face of a
putter head to close when impacting a ball which
causes errors in a putt. To correct this, these
golfers add additional weight to the heel of a head
to give a heel more momentum and thus the face will
be less likely to close when impacting a ball. It
is considered reasonable to take the position that
there will be golfers using the head of Simmons
which [sic: who] will tend to close the face due to
their putting swing and strength when impacting a
ball. These golfer's [sic] will require weighting
the heel portion heavier than the toe portion to
correct this error. The references [sic] of
Mendenhall was used to show that another method of
varying the weight of a head is not by having weight
inserts but buy [sic: by] changing the shape of
cavities. Finney was used to show that size and
material can also be used to vary weight positioned
behind a face of a head. But with respect the [sic:
to] this argument these references were not really
needed and Simmons alone provides the motivation to
obtain the weight positioning as that as [sic]
claimed which is to meet the requirements of a user
in particular who tends to close the face when
putting (See paragraph 2 in (10)).
Column 3, lines 59 to 61 of Simmons, to which the
examiner refers, reads as follows:
The weight of the solid weights 40 and 41 and the
metallic material for the solid weights 40 and 41
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