Golf accessory

• US 6,379,271 B1
• Filed: 02/18/2000
• Issued: 04/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Michael C. Arnke
• Original Assignee: Michael C. Arnke
• Inventors: Arnke, Michael C.
• Primary Examiner(s): WONG, STEVEN B
• Application Number:
  US09/506,490
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 473/406, 473/408, 473/285, D19/42, D19/43, D19/82, 224/918, 101/DIG.40
• US Class Current: 473/406
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 57/00 Golfing accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 57/20 Holders, e.g. of tees or of balls
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 57/207 Golf ball position marker holders
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 57/353 Golf ball position markers
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 29/00 Combinations of writing implements with other articles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 101/40 Means to print on golf balls

Abstract

A golf accessory combines a marking pen for players to place identification on their golf balls, and a green marker for marking the position of a golf ball on a golf green. The present accessory has a configuration resembling a golf tee with a golf ball resting thereon, with the appearance or configuration providing ready recognition of the present device as being related to the game of golf, as well as providing a convenient configuration for the apparatus of the accessory. The elongate tee portion of the device serves as a marking pen, with the marker tip being removably capped by the golf ball shaped portion at the marker tip end of the tee. The opposite end of the tee may include a diametric passage therethrough for attaching a keychain or the like, or for attachment to a golf bag, etc. as desired. The golf ball shaped portion serves as a removable cap for the marker tip, and is openable along a hemispherical parting line to access the interior thereof. A green marker for marking the location of a golf ball on a golf green, may be removably stored within the openable golf ball shaped portion of the present accessory.

Claims

1. A golf accessory, comprising:

a combination device, including;

a marking pen having a marker tip, for providing identification marking on a golf ball;

a cap for removably covering and protecting said marker tip of said marking pen;

an openable cap removably securable over said marker tip;

a green marker removably stored within said openable cap; and

said marking pen having a configuration resembling that of a golf tee and said cap having a configuration resembling that of a golf ball, for readily identifying said device as relating to the game of golf.

2. The golf accessory according to claim 1, wherein:

said marking pen includes a distal end opposite said marker tip, and;

said distal end includes an attachment passage formed therethrough.

3. The golf accessory according to claim 1, wherein:

said marker tip comprises a felt tip marker.

4. The golf accessory according to claim 1, wherein:

said openable cap comprises a first and a second hemispherical portion including a circumferential parting line therebetween; and

said first and said second hemispherical portion are at least partially separable about said circumferential parting line.

5. The golf accessory according to claim 4, including:

at least one fingernail indentation disposed along said circumferential parting line, for opening said first and said second hemispherical portion of said openable cap.

6. The golf accessory according to claim 5, including:

live hinge means connecting said first and said second hemispherical portions of said cap, disposed along said circumferential parting line generally diametrically opposite said fingernail indentation.

7. The golf accessory according to claim 1, wherein:

said openable cap is removably secured over said marker tip of said marking pen by friction fit means.

8. The golf accessory according to claim 1, wherein:

at least said marking pen is formed of copolymer polypropylene plastic.