Adjustable putter blade sight

• US 4,291,883 A
• Filed: 06/09/1980
• Issued: 09/29/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ethel D. Smart, Isaac W. Smart
• Original Assignee: Ethel D. Smart, Isaac W. Smart
• Inventors: Smart, Ethel D., Smart, Isaac W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marlo, George J.
• Application Number:
  US06/157,664
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 273/163 R, 273/163 A, 273/164, 273/183 D, 273/194 A, 273/162 R
• US Class Current: 473/244
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3685 Putters or attachments on putters, e.g. for measuring, aligning A63B69/3614 takes precedence

Abstract

This device is attachable to a golf club, so as to enable a golfer to sight more accurately on the hole, in which he or she wants to place a golf ball, and it consists primarily of a plate with a removable sight rod, which is secured to the top of the putter blade. It further includes a multiple number of recesses in the plate, which are spaced in degrees of angle, for setting the angle of the rod to any desired position by a spring-urged ball in the pivotal portion of the sight rod.

Claims

1. An adjustable putter blade sight, comprising, in combination, a mounting plate, secured to the top surface of the blade of a golf club, a cylindrical member pivotally secured, at one end, to said mounting plate, a spring and a ball secured in said cylindrical member, providing detent means for rendering said cylindrical member stationary at various degrees on said mounting plate, and a sight rod, removably received in said cylindrical member;

said mounting plate being secured to the top surface of said blade of said gold club by suitable screw fasteners, one at each end, adjacent to the striking face of said blade of said golf club, and one end of said cylindrical member is secured, by a transverse pivot pin, to said mounting plate, adjacent to said striking face of said blade of said golf club, and said transverse pivot pin is fixedly secured in said top surface of said mounting plate; and

said ball and spring being freely received in a transverse opening through said cylindrical member, spaced apart from said transverse pivot pin, and said spring urges against a plug fixedly secured in one end of the opening receiving said ball and spring, and the opposite end of said spring urges said ball into any one of a plurality of radially spaced-apart recesses included in the top surface of said mounting plate, the recesses providing the means of adjusting said cylindrical member to any desired angle with respect to said striking face of said blade of said golf club.

2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein one end of said sight rod is externally threaded, and is threadingly received in the opposite end of said cylindrical member, and said sight rod extends rearwards from the rear face of said golf club, for the golfer to align it with the center of the hole that is to receive the ball being putted.