Releasable Putter Clamp for Sightline-Safe Length Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional putters with adjustable lengths are cumbersome, difficult to manipulate, and obstruct the player's sightline, requiring multiple putters with pre-selected combinations of grip styles, head styles, and shaft lengths for a proper fit, which is inefficient and impractical.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable clamp system for putters that allows quick and easy adjustment of shaft length without obstructing the sightline, featuring a sleeve, lever, and compression collar that frictionally engage and disengage the shaft sections, enabling easy interchangeability of grip styles, head styles, and shaft lengths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional adjustable length putters are used, then shaft length can be adjusted, but the adjustment mechanism is bulky and obstructs the player's sightline
Solution Approach 1:
The putter shaft is divided into multiple telescopic sections that can slide relative to each other, allowing length adjustment without requiring a bulky external mechanism. The segmentation enables compact storage of the adjustment components within the shaft itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The telescopic shaft sections are nested within each other, with inner sections sliding inside outer sections. This nesting approach allows the adjustment mechanism to be compact and integrated within the shaft structure, avoiding external bulk that would obstruct the sightline.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple pre-configured putters are used to provide grip style, head style, and shaft length options, then fitting options are comprehensive, but the number of putters required increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single putter is designed with universal adjustability features including telescopic shaft sections for length adjustment, interchangeable grip mechanisms, and configurable head attachments. This multi-functionality allows one putter to replace multiple pre-configured options, providing comprehensive fitting capabilities while reducing the total number of putters needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The putter incorporates dynamic adjustment mechanisms that allow the shaft length, grip style, and head configuration to be changed during or between uses. This dynamic adaptability enables a single putter to assume multiple configurations, eliminating the need to maintain multiple static putter variants.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional adjustable length mechanisms are used, then shaft length can be changed, but the mechanism is difficult to manipulate
Solution Approach 1:
The conventional complex mechanical locking mechanisms are replaced with simplified systems such as cam-actuated release, spring-loaded detents, or friction-based locking that can be operated with minimal force and movement. These substituted mechanisms reduce the manipulation complexity while maintaining secure locking during use.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates precise and efficient putter fitting by allowing real-time adjustments during the fitting process, improving consistency, accuracy, and comfort by accommodating individual player preferences and stroke mechanics, enhancing overall putting performance.
Implementation Method 1
a compression collar that is movable along the sleeve and that applies a compression force to the second end of the sleeve
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AI summary
An adjustable clamp allows different grips to be coupled to different club heads using a simple, releasable clamp mechanism. The adjustable clamp is oriented on a shaft, and has a reduced profile perpendicular to the shaft, to have minimal impact on a sightline along the shaft during use. Additionally, putter fitting kits using multiple putter clamps to connect different grips to different shafts, as well as different heads to the different shafts, create a wider range of combinations available during a putter fitting.