Patent ID: 7008582
Filing Date: 2006-03-07
Classification: A63B,B25G

Abstract:
1. A method of manufacturing a golf club grip for a golf club including a shaft and a club head attached to a lower end of the shaft, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (a) overlapping a textile fabric on an exterior surface of a first raw rubber layer and painting a rubber latex on said textile fabric to attach said textile fabric on said exterior surface of said first raw rubber layer to form a thin reinforced rubber layer laminated with said textile fabric; (b) preparing a second raw rubber layer which is shaped and sized to form at least a pair of control members; (c) shaping said first raw rubber layer that is coated with said textile fabric laminated rubber layer to form at least a pair of anti-slip members; (d) aligning said pair of anti-slip members with said pair of control members in an end to end manner in two halves of a heat mold respectively; and (e) vulcanizing said pair of anti-slip members and said pair of control members in said heat mold to form said golf club grip including a tubular anti-slip arrangement and a tubular control arrangement coaxially extended from a lower end of said anti-slip arrangement, wherein said raw rubber of said pair of anti-slip members is vulcanized and integrated to form said tubular anti-slip arrangement while said textile fabric reinforced rubber layers are also vulcanized to integrally coat on an outer circumferential surface of said anti-slip arrangement, wherein said raw rubber of said pair of control members is vulcanized with and extended from said lower end of said anti-slip arrangement to form said control arrangement which is integrated coaxially with said anti-slip arrangement, wherein said anti-slip arrangement has a length at least long enough for at least a middle finger, a ring finger and a little finger of the holding hand of a golfer to completely grip thereon, so that a ring finger, a middle finger and an index finger of said controlling hand of said golfer is capable of naturally placing on said control arrangement, wherein, in the step (a), said textile fabric is cotton yarn which is adhered on said exterior surface of said first raw rubber layer by said rubber latex such that, during the vulcanization step (e), said rubber latex of said thin reinforced rubber layer is vulcanized to integrate with said first raw rubber layer to form said anti-slip arrangement, wherein a predetermined amount of said rubber latex is painted on said exterior surface of said first raw rubber layer to form a thin layer of rubber latex having a thickness slightly smaller than a diameter of each cotton filament of said cotton yarn and thus at least a portion of said cotton yarn is evenly and spacedly exposed outside around said anti-slip arrangement after vulcanization so as to produce a coarse exterior surface as said anti-slipping surface.