Patent ID: 8408891
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: A63B,B29C,B29L

Abstract:
1. A golf ball mold comprising a mold body configured as a plurality of mold parts which have at least a parting surface that defines a parting line at a golf ball equator and removably mate to form a cavity having an inner wall with a plurality of dimple-forming protrusions thereon, and a support pin which has an end face with a plurality of dimple-forming protrusions thereon and is extendable into and retractable from the cavity, the support pin extending into the cavity to support a center sphere and, when in a retracted state, the end face thereof defining a portion of the inner wall of the cavity, wherein the end face of the support pin includes a pole of the cavity and has a peripheral edge which intersects a parallel of latitude at 10 degrees from the pole.