Shock-dampening golf club grip

Abstract

The invention consists of a method of fabricating a personalized, uniquely-contoured, shock-dampening grip for a hand-held implement or tool, e.g., a golf club grip, which consists of a molded grip of variable thickness which would fit and enable holding and controlling the implement, such as a golf club, or a tennis racket, or a tool such as a hammer or the handle of a pot or pan. The contour of the grip would be molded during fabrication to the flexed hand or hands of the person for whom it is to be used, so that the grip would afford an optimal degree of holding stability with a minimum degree of flexion exertion in maintaining a strong hold on, and optimal use of, the personalized grip while holding and controlling the implement or tool.

1 . A novel method of fabricating a uniquely and personally contoured grip which is molded permanently to the contour of the grip of the hands of the individual user by allowing the material of said grip to cure while being gripped by the hands of the user.  
     
     
         2 . A method as set forth in  claim 1  utilizing injection molding techniques whereby the reactants are injected, poured or otherwise placed in a flexible sleeve, where it cures while it is being gripped by the individual whose hands are to determine the shape of the fabricated grip.  
     
     
         3 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , said reactants foaming and expanding to fill the sleeve and press the sleeve into the shape proscribed by the grip of the individual whose hands are to determine the shape of the fabricated grip.  
     
     
         4 . A method as set forth in  claim 1 , said reactants becoming permanently bonded to said flexible sleeve while foaming to produce a shock-dampening grip.