Portable golf target stand

• US 5,441,267 A
• Filed: 11/29/1994
• Issued: 08/15/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ivan P. Alder
• Original Assignee: Ivan P. Alder
• Inventors: Alder, Ivan P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US08/346,034
• Time in Patent Office: 259 Days
• Field of Search: 273/177 R, 273/181 R, 273/181 A, 273/407, 116/173
• US Class Current: 473/173
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 17/00 Flags; Banners; Mountings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2017/005 Means for mounting flags to masts

Abstract

A portable golf target stand having a base member, with the base member including pivotally mounted legs, with the legs arranged in a canted orientation relative to a top wall of the base member, such as the legs are arranged for inter-folding configuration to orient the leg members in a substantially parallel relationship when thusly inter-folded, with a signal rod arranged for selective reception within the base member, and the signal rod arranged for a break-down configuration for ease of storage of the signal rod when separated from the base member.

Claims

1. A portable golf target stand, comprising,

a base member, the base member receiving a signal rod, the base member having a top wall and the top wall having a tube member extending below the top wall, the tube member having a bore for selective reception of the signal rod, and

a plurality of leg members pivotally mounted to the base member and extending therefrom.

2. A target as set forth in claim 1 with the base member having plural pairs of flanges extending below the top wall, with each pair of said flanges defining a leg receiving cavity receiving a leg member of said plurality of legs within the leg receiving cavity, and a plurality of axles, with one axle of said plurality of axles extending within each said cavity for pivotally mounting said leg member therewithin, and each pair of flanges having an abutment flange extending from a periphery of the base member between each said pair of flanges to engage said leg member within said cavity to cant said leg member at an acute angle relative to the top wall.

3. A target as set forth in claim 2 with the signal rod including a plurality of tube sections, wherein said tube sections include a base tube, at least one intermediate tube, and a distal tube, the distal tube having a flag mounted to the distal tube.

4. A target as set forth in claim 3 wherein the distal tube includes a plurality of apertures, and each aperture of said plurality of apertures having a ring support, and the flag secured to each said ring support to pivotally mounted the flag to the distal tube.

5. A target as set forth in claim 4 wherein the base tube includes a base tube projecting boss for selective reception within the bore of said base member.

6. A target as set forth in claim 5 wherein the base tube, the intermediate tube, and the distal tube comprise a respective base tube bore, intermediate tube bore, and distal tube bore, with an elastomeric cord extending throughout the base tube bore, intermediate tube bore, and the distal tube bore.

7. A target as set forth in claim 6 wherein the intermediate tube includes an intermediate tube projecting boss for selective reception within the base tube spaced from the base tube projecting boss, and the distal tube includes a distal tube projecting boss for reception within the intermediate tube spaced from the intermediate tube projecting boss, with the base tube, the intermediate tube, and the distal tube arranged in a linearly aligned relationship when secured together and oriented coaxially of the base member when the base tube projecting boss is received within the bore.