Golf disc retriever

• US 6,726,265 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2002
• Issued: 04/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Darrin M. Miller
• Original Assignee: Darrin M. Miller
• Inventors: Miller, Darrin M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kramer, Dean J.
• Application Number:
  US10/160,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20040061347A1
• Time in Patent Office: 696 Days
• Field of Search: 294/19.2, 294/66.1, 294/66.2, 56/8, 373/14--16, 473/286
• US Class Current: 294/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 47/024 for collecting by using a sweeping means moving across the playing surface

Abstract

A disc retriever for disc golf is attached to a rope or cord which can be thrown varying distances to enable retrieval of a golf disc from variously sized water hazards or other difficult to access locations. The golf disc retriever is comprised of a rectangular flat wire frame, which has an opening large enough to admit and retain a golf disc, two pivoting arms which will fold into the rectangle frame and pivot forward to form lead arms interconnected by a long pull rope or cord used to pull the golf disc through a water hazard with the frame upright. The arms can be folded flat in line with the frame and the rope can then be easily and rapidly wound around the folded disc retriever frame in order to fit into a pocket of a golf disc bag or any other kind of carrying sack.

Claims

1. A golf disc retriever device for retrieving golf discs from water hazards and other locations, the device comprising:

a rigid rectangular frame comprising a single rigid element formed in a single plane into a flat rectangular shape having a pair of spaced horizontal members slightly shorter in length than the diameter of a golf disc and two spaced vertical members interconnecting the horizontal members, the vertical members each having a length slightly greater than the thickness of a golf disc, the vertical members spaced apart by a distance less than a diameter of a golf disc to form a center opening adapted to admit and retain a golf disc therein;

a lead arm attached by a pivotable means to each of the vertical members of the frame, each of the lead arms adapted to fold flat within the frame for storage and pivoting outwardly to contact the other lead arm and each of the lead arms having a means for engaging with a pulling means, each of the lead arms comprising a rigid wire structure formed in a triangular configuration having two ends spaced apart, each of the two ends having a portion of the wire bent into a circular configuration adapted to encircle one of the vertical members pivotable means to form a pivotable means of attaching the lead arm to the vertical member and each of the lead arms having the means for engaging with a pulling means comprising an outer circular bend formed in the wire structure at an outer end of the lead arm, the circular configuration adapted for receiving the pulling means;

a pulling means capable of engaging the two lead arms and pulling the device to retrieve a golf disc therein, wherein the pulling means comprises an elongated flexible cord-like element which is capable of being inserted through the outer circular bends of both of the lead arms and being secured thereto to hold the two lead arms together in front of the frame, the cord-like element adapted for pulling the frame to capture the golf disc, and the cord-like element further adapted for being wrapped around the device along the length of the device with each of the lead arms folded flat within the frame for storage.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the triangulated pivotable lead arms are sized and angled from the rigid horizontal frame to enable the rigid rectangular frame to ride through a water hazard along the bottom of the hazard with the rigid rectangular frame in an upright elongated orientation to capture a golf disc from the bottom of a water hazard in the horizontal frame.