US 2006/0234802 A1 · Portable golf swing practice device having a separable cord shield incorporated therein

Abstract

The golf swing practice device has a floor pad; a hollow tee extending upward from a surface of the floor pad, a ball resting on an end of the tee; and an elastic cord attached to the ball and to the floor pad and extending through the tee. The golf swing practice device also has a socket on a lower end of the tee and a bulge on a surface of the pad. The bulge has a forward-facing slot enclosing the strike side of the elastic cord. The socket on the tee encloses the bulge. The socket and the bulge have complementary spherical shapes that are easily but fitly mounted over and into one another. In other aspects of the invention, the floor pad has a ramp on a strike side of the bulge, and a semicircular groove in its surface, on a forward side of the bulge.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A golf swing practice device comprising a floor pad;

a hollow tee extending upward from a surface of said floor pad, a ball resting on an end of said tee;
and an elastic cord attached to said ball and to said floor pad and extending through said tee;
wherein the improvement comprises;
a socket on a lower end of said tee and a bulge on a surface of said pad, said bulge having a slot therein;
said slot enclosing a strike side of said elastic cord, and said socket enclosing said bulge.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/397,751Filed 5 Apr 2006

Priority

19 Apr 2005

Published

19 Oct 2006

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A63B 24/0021
Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training…
A63B 67/02
Sporting games or accessories therefor, not provided for in groups A63B1/00 - A63B65/00: special golf games, e.g. miniature golf ; Putting tracks…
A63B 69/3655
For driving: balls, ball substitutes, or attachments on balls therefor
A63B 69/3658
For golf: means associated with the ball for indicating or measuring, e.g. speed, direction

Portable golf swing practice device having a separable cord shield incorporated therein

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Portable golf swing practice device having a separable cord shield incorporated therein

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Abstract

Claims10