Golf club cover
AssigneeM.H.A. Enterprises Ltd.
InventorAlbert N. Thompson
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Abstract
A golf club cover of the type of rigid half-shells hingedly secured to each other has several improvements directed to render the product more useful and convenient in application. The head portion is perforated to allow drying of wet club head thus avoiding the damage, particularly to woods, due to high humidity normally retained within the cover. The cover is maintained in closed state by closure means that does not obstruct other clubs or covers in a bag. The suspension cord eyelet is located such as to minimize the occurrence of the cord obstructing the interior of the cover. The end of the shank portion of the cover has an inwardly turned flange defining a drop-shaped opening to facilitate the centering of a shank within the cover as the cover is being applied.
Claims2
A golf club head cover comprising a pair of generally mirror-imaged rigid half-shells, each of said half-shells being provided with an internal padding, hinge means extending along a stem portion and a rear part of a head portion of a rim of each half-shell for hingedly securing the pair of half-shells together, and releasable latch means for releasably maintaining the half-shells in a closed state wherein an enclosed cavity, of a shape having a bulbous head portion merging with an elongate stem portion, is defined for covering a head and adjacent shank of a single golf club;
- wherein a series of vent passages are provided extending through each half-shell and the internal padding thereof for communicating said cavity with the exterior of the head cover;
- and wherein a shank end of each of the half-shells has an inwardly directed flange with a golf club shank centering recess therein, said recesses defining together, in said closed state of the half-shells, an end opening which, in end view, is drop-shaped, having a rounded portion directed toward the portion of the rim along which the hinge means extends and a covergent portion converging in a direction transversely away from the hinge means, whereby a partly offset shank of a club will be pushed to a centered position as the half-shells are brought from an open state into said closed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.