Personal golf set for par-3 course

• US 4,253,666 A
• Filed: 03/20/1978
• Issued: 03/03/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William Murphy
• Original Assignee: William Murphy
• Inventors: Murphy, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US05/888,171
• Time in Patent Office: 1,079 Days
• Field of Search: 273/32 D, 273/77 R, 273/77 A, 273/80 R, 273/80 D, 273/80.1, 273/162 R, 224/45 R, 224/45 L, 224/45 P, 224/194, 224/195, 224/200, 224/254, 224/274, 224/904, 224/914, 224/918-922, 206/315 R, 211/14, 211/60 G, 211/60 A, 150/1.5 R, 150/52 R, 150/52 G
• US Class Current: 473/288
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/005 Club sets
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 53/02 Joint structures between the head and the shaft
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 55/40 Bags with partitions or club holders

Abstract

A portable golf set for a disassemblable golf club comprising a case adapted for removable attachment to the golfer having means for holding interchangeable heads, tees and golf balls and the parts of the shaft.

Claims

1. A par-3 golf set comprising in combination, a plurality of shaft parts for assembly into a single golf club shaft selectively useful with any of a plurality of golf club heads, a plurality of golf club heads, selectively assemblable with said shaft to make any of a plurality of different golf clubs, and a carrying case for holding said shaft parts and golf club heads, said carrying case being of canvas or sheet plastic material in a vertical plane in use and extending horizontally, with a pair of clips on a side thereof adapted to hold the case to clothes or belt of a golfer, with resilient means on the other side of the case for individually holding the club heads in spaced apart vertical position and with resilient means at the bottom of the case for holding the plurality of shaft parts in horizontal position, in which position when the shaft parts are held to the case they help to maintain the case in planar shape.

2. A golf set according to claim 1 wherein at the ends of the case there are held, on the same side as the resilient means for holding the club heads, vertical containers for holding golf balls and tees and the case is flexible so that when the shaft parts are not held thereto it may be curved to conform to adjacent body contours when held to the clothes or belt of a golfer.

3. A golf set according to claim 2 wherein the club heads are held in position and apart by the resilient holding means therefor so that they do not make contact with each other when the shaft parts are held in place by the resilient holding means therefor, the vertical containers are transparent cylinders and the clips are of flat plastic.

4. A golf set according to claim 3 wherein there are three clubs, all being irons, which clubs have heads which each include single rods integral therewith, each of which rods includes dual opposed longitudinally positioned bayonet-type spring fasteners adapted to positively lock in place with respect to matching opposed longitudinally extending openings in a lower section of a golf club shaft, and have two sections of a club shaft, the lower section of which is threadedly connectable to the upper section and the lower portion of the lower section of which has in it two opposed longitudinally extending openings into which the spring fasteners of the club heads may be selectively locked to prevent release of the club head except when desired and to prevent turning thereof with respect to the club shaft.

5. A golf set according to claim 4 wherein the clubs are a middle distance iron, a short distance iron and a putter, the club shaft sections are of about equal length, the spring holding means on the club head at rest extends curvingly outwardly from the rod thereof so as to be farther away from the axis of said rod nearer to the club head and has a surface thereof at about a right angle to said rod for contacting a wall of the opening in the lower portion of the lower section of the club shaft to positively hold the club head in position on the shaft for use, which spring portion of the club head is below the resilient holding means for holding such club head to the case when the club head is held to the case.

6. A golf set comprising a plurality of golf clubs, which clubs have heads which each include single rods integral therewith, each of which rods includes dual opposed longitudinally positioned bayonet-type spring fasteners adapted to lock in place positively with respect to matching opposed longitudinally extending openings in a lower section of a golf club shaft, a club shaft in two sections, a lower section and an upper section, the lower section of which is threadedly connectable to the upper section, with the lower portion of the lower section having in it two opposed longitudinally extending openings into which the spring fasteners of the club heads may be selectively locked to prevent release of the club head except when desired and to prevent turning thereof with respect to the club shaft when locked in place, and a carrying case having means for securing it to the clothes or belt of a golfer, resilient holders for said sections of said shaft, resilient holders for the plurality of interchangeable heads, and containers for balls and tees.

7. A golf set according to claim 6 wherein the clubs are a middle distance iron, a short distance iron and a putter, the club shaft sections are of about equal length, the spring holding means on the club head at rest extends curvingly outwardly from the rod thereof so as to be farther away from the axis of said rod nearer to the club head and has a surface thereof at about a right angle to said rod for contacting a wall of the opening in the lower portion of the lower section of the club shaft to positively hold the club head in position on the shaft for use, which spring portion of the club head is below the resilient holding means for holding such club head to the case when the club head is held to the case.

8. A golf set comprising a flexible carrying case having means for securing it to the clothing or a belt of a golfer in extended form conforming to the body of such golfer, said carrying case having means to hold a plurality of golf club heads alongside each other so that they do not touch each other when the case is in extended form but can contact each other when the case is unextended, a plurality of golf club heads held by said case in non-contacting relationship with each other, said heads being selectively attachable to a golf club shaft made of a plurality of shaft parts, said case having means to removably hold a plurality of golf club shaft parts so that when such shaft parts are in held position they rigidify the otherwise flexible carrying case so that the golf club heads, when the case is in extended position, are out of contact with each other, and a plurality of golf club shaft parts held to the case in position when the case is extended, so as to rigidify the case in such position and prevent the held golf club heads from contacting each other, thereby preventing rattling of such heads and marking thereof such as could occur when the heads are held in the case in unextended position.