IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0615468
(1975-09-22)
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발명자
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- Bergstrom Harold G. (85 Wiltshire Road Scarsdale NY 10583)
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인용정보 |
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초록
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This invention relates to a plastic, scoop-like device which easily, and without the use of tools, attaches to a golfclub iron, for the purpose of retrieving golf balls, or the like, from water hazards or other relatively inaccessible locations, or to pick up golf balls after a practice session. Thi
This invention relates to a plastic, scoop-like device which easily, and without the use of tools, attaches to a golfclub iron, for the purpose of retrieving golf balls, or the like, from water hazards or other relatively inaccessible locations, or to pick up golf balls after a practice session. This device has two sides, bottom, and open ends, which is formed by bending a flat sheet of relatively thin plastic, permanently secured at its center top edge, which will cause it to resemble a “tear-drop”shape in its cross-section from that point of securement to one end of the device. From that same point of securement to the other end of the device, the cross-sectional shape fairs from the “tear-drop”shape to a form resembling a “U”in cross-section. The latter end of the device receives the “scooped”ball and the former end receives and attaches to the club head. The “scoop”end has two holes, each being of a smaller diameter than that of a golf ball, and are so designed as to engage the golf ball on both sides and to hold the ball during, and after the scooping action, to retrieve the ball from its unwanted location. The other end of the device envelops the golf club head, and when secured with the fastener to the club head, it forms an integral unit with the club shaft, and as such, forms the complete retriever.
대표청구항
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In combination, a golf ball retriever attachment and a golf club having a shaft, a hosel fitting about the free end portion of said shaft, and a tapered metal blade extending from said hosel with a front striking face and a rear face, having a sole adapted to lie parallel to the ground, a top surfac
In combination, a golf ball retriever attachment and a golf club having a shaft, a hosel fitting about the free end portion of said shaft, and a tapered metal blade extending from said hosel with a front striking face and a rear face, having a sole adapted to lie parallel to the ground, a top surface tapering outwardly with respect to the sole as it extends from the hosel, and the blade tapering to converge from the sole to the top surface thereof, said ball retriever attachment comprising, a scoop-like device having an elongated, flexible sheet plastic body in the form of an open ended sleeve, or sheath, tapered in respect to its longitudinal or horizontal axis, of a size to accomodate said blade of a golf club iron within its minor end, and extending longitudinally of the club head and beyond the free end thereof, of a size and length to hold a golf ball within the major end of said sleeve, said tapered sleeve having a semi frusto-conical bottom, with side walls having generally plane surfaces which taper upwardly from opposite sides of said bottom to meet in convergence at their matching outermost edges and held in said convergence by a fastener at their medial top edges, said fastener causing a holding action on said top surface of said club blade, said top edges having at the minor end of the device a separable fastener and a cooperating fastener for removably securing the device to the blade of the golf club iron adjacent to said hosel, said top edges diverging from said medial fastener toward the major end of device, each independently and symmetrically merging in concurrent lines with the major end edges of said side walls and said bottom edge, and thus forming a scoop-like opening of a size to accomodate the ready scooping of a golf ball from water and the like, said major end side walls each having a symmetrically disposed holding hole, on a common transverse axis, of a diameter generally less than that of a golf ball, to drain the water scooped up with a golf ball and to engage and hold the golf ball, during and after its retrievement, said retrievement being accomplished by movement of the device toward the golf ball, with sAid major end leading the blade of the club, generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the device, and said blade of the club, positioning of said device varying from close-at-hand retrievement wherein said bottom of the device will be generally parallel to the ground or hazard bed, to maximum reach retrievement wherein one of said side walls of the device will be generally parallel to the ground or hazard bed, said flexibility of said device and its minimum size and minimum weight enable said device to be readily carried on the user\s person or in the pocket of a golf bag without danger of deforming its functional form.
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