GOLF DISC RETRIEVER

• US 20040061347A1
• Filed: 06/01/2002
• Published: 04/01/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Darrin M. Miller
• Original Assignee: Darrin M. Miller
• Inventors: Miller, Darrin M.
• Granted Patent: US 6,726,265 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 294/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 47/024 for collecting by using a sweeping means moving across the playing surface

Abstract

A disc retriever for disc golf is attached to a rope or cord which can be thrown varying distances to enable retrieval of a golf disc from variously sized water hazards or other difficult to access locations. The golf disc retriever is comprised of a rectangular flat wire frame, which has an opening large enough to admit and retain a golf disc, two pivoting arms which will fold into the rectangle frame and pivot forward to form lead arms interconnected by a long pull rope or cord used to pull the golf disc through a water hazard with the frame upright. The arms can be folded flat in line with the frame and the rope can then be easily and rapidly wound around the folded disc retriever frame in order to fit into a pocket of a golf disc bag or any other kind of carrying sack.

Claims

1. A golf disc retriever device for retrieving golf discs from water hazards and other locations, the device comprising:

a rigid rectangular frame having a pair of spaced horizontal members slightly shorter in length than the diameter of a golf disc and two spaced vertical members interconnecting the horizontal members, the vertical members each having a length slightly greater than the thickness of a golf disc, and a center opening sufficiently large to admit and retain a golf disc therein;

a lead arm attached by a pivotable means to each of the vertical members of the frame, each of the lead arms capable of folding flat within the frame for storage and pivoting outwardly to contact the other lead arm and each of the lead arms having a means for engaging with a pulling means;

a pulling means capable of engaging the two lead arms and pulling the device to retrieve a golf disc therein.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein each of the lead arms comprises a rigid wire structure and the means for engaging with a pulling means comprises an outer circular bend formed in the wire structure at an outer end of the lead arm, the circular configuration being capable of receiving the pulling means.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein the pivotable means of attaching the lead arm to the vertical member comprises at least one inner circular bend in an inner end of the lead arm loosely encircling the vertical member to allow pivoting of the lead arm.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein the lead arm is formed in a triangular configuration having two ends with at least one inner circular bend in each of the two ends encircling the vertical member.

5. The device of claim 2 wherein the pull means comprises an elongated flexible cord-like element which is capable of being inserted through the outer circular bends of both of the lead arms and being secured thereto to hold the two lead arms together in front of the frame, the cord-like element being capable of pulling the frame to capture the golf disc.

6. The device of claim 5 wherein the cord-like element is capable of being wrapped around the device along the length of the device with each of the lead arms folded flat within the frame for storage.