Laser putt training aid

• US 5,733,202 A
• Filed: 04/28/1997
• Issued: 03/31/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Edward R. Vargo
• Original Assignee: Edward R. Vargo
• Inventors: Vargo, Edward R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Passaniti, Sebastiano
• Application Number:
  US08/846,172
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• Field of Search: 362/205, 362/102, 362/118, 362/206, 473/220, 473/221
• US Class Current: 473/220
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3614 using electro-magnetic, magnetic or ultrasonic radiation emitted, reflected or interrupted by the golf club

Abstract

A laser putt training aid including a shaft having a hollow configuration with a top end and a bottom end. Also included is a plurality of batteries situated within the shaft. A head is coupled to the bottom end of the shaft and has a flat hitting front surface, a rear surface, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The head has a bore formed therein between the front surface and the rear surface of the head. The head further has a lens coupled in the bore adjacent the front surface thereof with the lens being flush with the front surface. The head further includes a laser adapted to emit a laser through the bore upon the application of electric power thereto. Next provided is a cap switch having a first orientation for providing electrical communication between the batteries and the laser and a second orientation for precluding electrical communication therebetween.

Claims

1. A new and improved laser putt training aid comprising, in combination:

a conductive shaft having a hollow configuration with a top end and a bottom end, the shaft having a plurality of threads formed in an inner periphery of the top end thereof, an elastomeric battery compartment having a tubular configuration and situated within the shaft adjacent the top end thereof with the compartment having a closed bottom and an open top for allowing the insertion of batteries through the top end of the compartment for storage therein, and an elastomeric grip situated about an outer surface of the shaft adjacent the top end thereof;

a cap switch with a cylindrical configuration having a conductive housing including a top extent with a knurled outer surface and a bottom extent with coaxial threads formed therein, the cap switch further including a V-shaped contact with a first end coupled to a bottom surface of the housing and extending downwardly therefrom wherein a insulative washer is positioned between the contact and the housing of the switch and a second end of the contact abuts a first terminal of the batteries, the cap switch further including a push button switch positioned on a top surface of the housing of the cap switch which is depressible along an axis of the shaft, the cap switch having a first orientation effected upon the depression thereof for providing electrical communication between the housing of the cap switch and the V-shaped contact and a second orientation effected upon the subsequent depression thereof for precluding electrical communication between the housing of the cap switch and the V-shaped contact, whereby the housing of the cap switch may be screwably coupled to the threads of the top end of the shaft in electrical communication therewith;

a conductive head integrally coupled to the bottom end of the shaft and having a flat hitting front surface, a rear surface, a top surface, and a bottom surface, the head having a bore formed therein between the front surface and the rear surface of the head, the bore having reduced diameter adjacent the front surface of the head and a plurality of threads formed therein adjacent the rear surface of the head, the head further having a lens coupled in the bore adjacent the front surface thereof with the lens being flush with the front surface of the head, the bore further having a cap screwably coupled to the threads of the bore for allowing selective entry to an interior of the bore, the head further including a cylindrical laser situated within the bore with a first contact encompassing an entire outer periphery thereof in electrical communication with the head and a second contact situated on a rear face thereof, the laser adapted to emit a laser through the lens upon the application of electric power to the contacts thereof; and

an insulated wire connected between a second terminal of the batteries and the second contact of the laser, whereby upon the push button switch of the cap switch being in first orientation thereof and further screwably coupled to the shaft, electric power is transmitted to the laser via the wire and shaft and head for directing a laser outwardly and perpendicularly from the front surface of the head.

2. A laser putt training aid comprising:

a shaft having a top end and a bottom end;

a head coupled to the bottom end of the shaft and having a flat hitting front surface, a rear surface, a top surface, and a bottom surface, the head further including a laser adapted to emit a laser upon the application of electric power thereto via a plurality of batteries; and

a cap switch having a conductive housing including a top extent with a knurled outer surface and a bottom extent with coaxial threads formed therein, the cap switch further including a V-shaped contact with a first end coupled to a bottom surface of the housing and extending downwardly therefrom wherein an insulative washer is positioned between the contact and the housing of the switch and a second end of the contact abuts a first terminal of the batteries, the cap switch further including a push button switch positioned on a top surface of the housing of the cap switch which is depressible along an axis of the shaft, the cap switch having a first orientation effected upon the depression thereof for providing electrical communication between the housing of the cap switch and the V-shaped contact and a second orientation effected upon the subsequent depression thereof for precluding electrical communication between the housing of the cap switch and the V-shaped contact, whereby the housing of the cap switch may be screwably coupled to threads of the top end of the shaft.

3. A laser putt training aid as set forth in claim 2 wherein the laser is situated within the head and emits a laser out of a bore formed therein.

4. A laser putt training aid as set forth in claim 2 wherein the shaft is equipped with a grip situated thereon adjacent the top end thereof.