Golf club grip cleaner
OwnerGerald P. Nye, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An electrically powered brush assembly for the wet scrubbing and cleaning of the hand grip of a piece of athletic equipment such as the grip of a golf club. The assembly is comprised of an elongated housing including an upper compartment which is adapted to receive the grip end of a golf club and contains a liquid cleaning agent and at least one, but preferably a plurality of elongated brushes arranged for contacting the surface of grip as well as a lower compartment which contains an electric drive motor, a grip actuated switch, and a gear train which couples to the brush(es) through an adjoining wall between the compartments. The brush or brushes are coextensive and aligned with the length of the grip and are powered by the electric motor to axially rotate and thus scrub the grip when the butt end of the grip actuates the switch.
Claims8
An apparatus for cleaning the grip of a golf club comprising:
- an upright elongated housing including a coextensive chamber adapted to be filled with a cleaning liquid to a level substantially completely submerging the hand grip of a golf club inserted into the housing;
- circumferentially spaced parallel axis substantially cylindrical rotary golf club grip scrubbing brushes journaled in the housing and being spaced equidistantly from the center of the housing to define a center golf club grip cleaning space in the housing surrounded by said brushes, the brushes extending substantially for the entire depth of the housing and being substantially completely submerged in a cleaning liquid filling the chamber;
- power means located in a chamber forming an extension of said housing, said power means being connected with the brushes to rotate them in unison on their parallel axes;
- a removable closure cap for the top of the housing having a center golf club grip insertion and removal opening in coaxial alignment with said central golf club hand grip cleaning space;
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- means secured to said housing for mounting the apparatus in a use position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.