Patent ID: 6475417
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A method for producing a golf ball including a cover component, a core component having a central portion and a skin portion disposed about said central portion, said central portion being harder than said skin portion, said central portion and said skin portion being formed in-situ from the same material or different material, and a wound layer disposed between said skin portion of said core component and said cover component, said method comprising:providing a molding apparatus having cooling and heating provisions and a chamber adapted for molding; providing a slug of polymeric material capable of undergoing an exothermic curing reaction; depositing said slug of polymeric material in said chamber of said molding apparatus; curing at least a portion of said polymeric material thereby causing the temperature within the interior of said slug to increase; and cooling said chamber of said molding apparatus thereby causing the temperature at the surface of said slug to be less than said temperature within the interior of said slug; whereby said golf ball core component having said central portion and said soft skin portion is produced.