Title: Method of making golf balls

Abstract: A method of making golf balls wherein an elastomeric spherical core is formed with a series of narrow shallow surface channels each lying on great circles passing through opposite pole areas, and similar hemispherical cover shells are compression molded upon the core and joined along a transverse seam lying in a plane that intersects all of the great circles, preferably at about 90.degree..

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Inventors: Pocklington, Terence W. (Tupelo, MS, US)

Application Number: 043014
Filing Date: 1979-05-29
Publication_date: 1980-10-21
Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 264/248 156/228, 156/245, 425/812
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

727542	May, 1903	Kempshall	264/248.
1231530	Jun, 1917	Roberts	264/248.
1558706	Oct, 1925	Mitzel	273/217.
2206971	Jul, 1940	Myers	264/248.
2678468	May, 1954	Smith	425/812.
2938237	May, 1960	Kern et al.	425/812.

Other Refs: 1830342816 of7902 of968987

Mar, 1963	SE
, 1904	GB
, 1910	GB
Sep, 1964	GB

Primary Examiner: Lowe, James B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Le Blanc, Nolan, Shur & Nies