Rigid golf flag with resilient peripheral edge
OwnerEugene S. Womackinventor
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Abstract
A rigid golf flag having a resilient peripheral edge is provided for the purpose of long wear and minimum maintenance. Rigid golf flags of metal or plastic will last a long time, practically indefinitely, thereby cutting the cost of operating and maintaining a golf course. A resilient protective edge covers substantially all of the peripheral edge of the rigid flag for the purpose of keeping the flag from cutting into the greens of the golf course when and if dropped by a player or caddy.
Claims4
A golf hole flag assembly, said assembly including an upright staff adapted to be supported upright from a hole cup, the upper end portion of said staff including vertically spaced upper and lower horizontally enlarged and outwardly projecting flanges extending thereabout and including upper bearing surfaces, a flag support including an upstanding rod provided with vertically spaced and aligned horizontally outstanding upper and lower support rings on its upper and lower end rotatably mounted on said staff with the upper and lower rings disposed above and rotatably engaged with said bearing surfaces and said rod spaced outwardly from said staff and flanges, an upstanding flag member including an upstanding rigid panel member constructed of weather resistant material, said panel member being generally circular in shape, but including one straight upstanding side marginal edge portion at one side edge thereof provided with vertically spaced and aligned horizontal transverse apertures formed therethrough, said straight upstanding marginal edge portion being defined by an integral horizontally outwardly projecting and elongated upstanding tab portion of said panel member, the peripheral edge portion of said panel member extending thereabout from the upper end of said tab portion to the lower end of said tab portion being substantially continuously arcuate and having a resilient covering secured thereover to protect the greens grass from damage if dropped thereupon, said rod intermediate the upper and lower ends thereof, including means defining vertically spaced loops supported therefrom, said apertures being horizontally registered with said loops, and attaching links loosely passed through corresponding pairs of apertures and loops supporting said panel member from said rod for angular displacement relative thereto about an axis paralleling said staff and thus the axis of angular displacement of said flag support about said staff.
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