Golf bag
OwnerChristian H. Kirchhoff, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
The full service golf bag includes a rigid body with a separate tube for the shaft of each club and a deck with cradles shaped to fit the respective club heads. The tubes are shaped to frictionally retain the clubs by their handgrips. An adjustable retainer clip for the putter is shown, as are specially designed compartments for all usual golfing accessories such as shoes, rake/retriever, thermos, umbrella, towel, balls and the like. A rigid, removable cover is provided over the upper end of the bag body. The lower end may include a rotatable base further provided with rollers useful for rolling the bag along airport concourses and the like.
Claims32
A golf bag, comprising:
- a body including a generally tubular perimetrical sidewall and a lower end wall providing an interior space;
- means providing an upper deck for said body;
- means providing a plurality of individual generally longitudinally oriented wells in said interior space, each opening through said deck and being adapted to axially slidingly removably receive an elongated item of golfing equipment such as a golf club shaft, handle end first;
- means on said deck individually associated with each of at least several of said wells for removably accepting and holding a respective golf club head means;
- each said well being constituted by a respective tube having opposite ends mounted and extending between said deck and said lower end wall;
- at least one of said tubes including means extending throughout a portion of the length thereof constructed and arranged for resiliently gripping a corresponding portion of the respective golf club when such respective golf club is received handle end first into such tube;
- said sidewall including at least one handle means whereby said golf bag may be hand-carried;
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- cover means including a cover and securement means for releasably securing the cover to the sidewall in domed enclosing relation to said deck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.