GOLF SWING TRAINING DEVICE

• US 3,829,102 A
• Filed: 08/20/1973
• Issued: 08/13/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John G. Harrison
• Original Assignee: John G. Harrison
• Inventors: Harrison, John G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US05/389,953
• Time in Patent Office: 358 Days
• Field of Search: 273/186,193,194,183
• US Class Current: 473/228
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3632 Clubs or attachments on clubs, e.g. for measuring, aligning A63B69/3614 takes precedence; clubs for swinging exercises in general A63B15/00

Abstract

This is an improvement on training attachments on the head of a golf club. The training attachment includes a directing member attachable to the top of the head of the golf club so that it can be turned and held in selected directions relatively to the face of the club; a remote control device is actuated from the grip portion of the shaft of the golf club; in one form the actuation is through a line extending along the shaft of the golf club to the directing member and a device near the grip whereby the line is manipulated for turning the directing member; in another form the directing member has an electrical device including electromagnets for turning the same, which electrical device is actuated through a switch on or near the grip portion of the shaft of the golf club.

Claims

1. A golf swing training attachment for a golf club having a head and a shaft extended from the head and a handle grip on the free end of the shaft, a pivoted directing member turnable to selected directions relatively to said head and shaft, means for pivotably attaching the direction member to the top of the head of the golf club so that the axis of pivoting is substantially perpendicular to said top, a manipulatable device at said grip of said golf club, means for transmitting adjusting movement from said manipulatable device to said directing member.

2. The device specified in claim 1, and said transmitting means extending along said shaft from said directing member to said manipulatable device.

3. The device specified in claim 2, and said transmitting means including a line connected to said directing member for exerting turning motion to said directing member, an element in said manipulatable means to hold the other end of said line, and means for operating said element by said manipulatable means for moving said line in either of opposite directions thereby to turn said member in selected directions.

4. The device specified in claim 2, and the connection of said line to said member being offset from the pivot axis of said member, said manipulatable means including a turnable element in said grip, an element moving axially relative to said grip, said line being connected to said axially movable element, and means of connection between said turnable element and said axially movable element to convert the turning of said turnable element into axial movement of said axially movable element thereby to move said line in either of opposite directions at will for correspondingly turning said pivoted directing member.

5. The device specified in claim 1, and said adjusting device including electrically actuated means for turning said directing member, and said transmitting means including means to transmit electric current to said electrically actuated means, and said manipulatable device including switching means for energizing said electrical transmitting means for operation in opposite directions.

6. The device specified in claim 1, and said adjusting device including a pair of spaced electro-magnets on said attaching means, a reciprocable element having an armature at each end operable by the respective electro-magnets, and means to connect said reciprocable element to said pivoted directing member for turning said directing member by the energizAtion of the respective electro-magnet.

7. The device specified in claim 6, and batteries in said grip, said manipulatable means including a switch, said transmitting means being electrical conduits extended along said shaft connecting said batteries and said switch to the respective electro-magnets, and said switch being operable to selectively close the circuit between said battery and the selected electro-magnet thereby to turn said directing member into the selected direction.