Golf club manager

• US 6,138,825 A
• Filed: 07/06/1999
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Joseph A. Puskaric
• Original Assignee: Ray R. Summerlin
• Inventors: Summerlin, Ray R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weaver, Sue A.
• Application Number:
  US09/347,570
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 206/315.2-315.6
• US Class Current: 206/315.6
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 55/40 Bags with partitions or club holders

Abstract

This invention is a golf club manager having an apertured base received inside a golf bag near the top and a thin annular side wall extending up from the periphery of the base. The top edge of the side wall is circumferentially tapered from a high on one side to a low on the opposite side, and it has a plurality of recesses in succession circumferentially which are radially aligned with individual openings in the base. These recesses hold the heads of individual golf clubs facing radially outward, and the shafts of these clubs extend down through corresponding openings in the base of the manager. A strip of rubber-like material covers the top edge of the side wall for engaging the heads of clubs from below. The side wall is formed with a plurality of circumferentially spaced, vertically cantilevered hooks with teeth that permit its slidable insertion down into the upper end of the golf bag but prevent it from being accidentally dislodged from the position to which it has been inserted.

Claims

1. A golf club manager for use with a golf bag comprising:

a base shaped and dimensioned to be received in the upper end of a golf bag with the periphery of said base extending circumferentially around the inside of the golf bag near the top, said base having a plurality of openings therein spaced apart in succession circumferentially for receiving individual shafts of golf clubs;

and a thin, circumferentially rounded, side wall extending up from substantially the entire periphery of said base for engagement with the inside of the golf bag around substantially it entire periphery at the top, said side wall having a wavy top edge spaced above said base and presenting a plurality of open-topped recesses in succession around substantially its entire circumference, said recesses having predetermined positions individually with respect to corresponding openings in said base to hold individually the heads of clubs whose shafts are received in said openings in the base, said wavy top edge of said side wall being tapered in opposite directions circumferentially from a high on one side of the golf bag to a low on the opposite side and providing said recesses at successively lower individual levels above the top of the bag in each direction circumferentially away from said high to thereby present preselected circumferential locations at different levels for individual clubs.

2. A manager according to claim 1, and further comprising a plurality of hooks on the outside of said side wall at circumferentially spaced locations, each of said hooks having at least one outwardly facing tooth for biting engagement with the inside of the golf bag.

3. A manager according to claim 2, wherein each of said hooks has an upwardly-facing shoulder and an inwardly and downwardly inclined outer face extending down from said shoulder at a sharp corner of the tooth.