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US 4,667,820 AGranted
Throat structure for golf club bags
OwnerJohn A. Solheiminventor
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Abstract
A throat structure for use in the open top of a golf bag includes the combination of ring-shaped body with a special divider therein which separates the opening into the golf bag into four golf club segregation areas. The special divider is provided with a pair of cross bars that are interconnected at their centers by a transverse rib with the cross bars being angular so that the golf clubs containable in the segregation areas will tend to collect in predetermined locations in the segregation areas when the golf bag is being carried to facilitate golf club selection and removal and to minimize golf club entanglement.
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A throat structure for the top end of a golf bag comprising:
- (a) a ring-shaped body defining a bore;
- (b) divider means in the bore of said ring-shaped body to divide the bore into four separated open golf club segregation areas, said divider means including:
- I. a first cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- II. a second cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- III. said first and second cross bars being disposed so that the included obtuse angles defined by their respective pairs of arms face in opposite directions and their respective vertices are in aligned spaced apart positions relative to each other,
- IV. a transverse rib interconnecting the aligned spaced apart vertices of said first and second cross bars;
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- (c) means for providing curved closed surfaces on the edges of said ring-shaped body and said divider means which face into the golf bag when mounted on the top end thereof.
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A throat structure for the top end of a golf bag comprising:
- (a) a ring-shaped body defining a bore and having an end which faces outwardly and an opposite end which faces inwardly when mounted on the top end of the golf bag, said ring-shaped body having its outwardly facing end rolled inwardly and an integral depending concentric lip which is spaced inwardly from said ring-shaped body to define an annular groove which opens in the direction of the inwardly facing end of said ring-shaped body;
- (b) divider means mounted in the bore of said ring-shaped body to divide the bore into four separated open golf club segregation areas, said divider means including:
- I. a first cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- II. a second cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- III. said first and second cross bars being disposed so that the included obtuse angles defined by their respective pairs of arms face in opposite directions and their respective vertices are in aligned spaced apart positions relative to each other,
- IV. a transverse rib interconnection the aligned spaced apart vertices of said first and second cross bars;
- (c) said divider means being formed of first and second divider halves which are identical to each other and are fixedly attached to each other in oppositely facing directions to provide said first and second cross bars and said transverse rib with tubular configurations having oppositely facing closed surfaces and to define open ended passages through said first and second cross bars;
- (d) said divider means being mounted in the bore of said ring-shaped body by having the opposite ends of said first and second cross bars fixedly attached to the concentric lip thereof;
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- (e) plug means in the annular groove defined by said ring-shaped body and the concentric lip thereof to provide a closing surface in the open end of the annular groove.
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A throat structure for the top end of a golf bag comprising:
- (a) a ring-shaped body defining a bore;
- (b) divider means in the bore of said ring-shaped body to divide the bore into four separated open golf club segregation areas, said divider means including,
- I. a first cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- II. a second cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- III. said first and second cross bars being disposed so that the included obtuse angles defined by their respective pairs of arms face in opposite directions and their respective vertices are in aligned spaced apart positions relative to each other,
- IV. a transverse rib interconnection the aligned spaced apart vertices of said first and second cross bars;
- (c) said divider means being formed of first and second divider halves which are identical to each other and are fixedly attached to each other in oppositely facing directions to provide said first and second cross bars and said transverse rib with tubular configurations having oppositely facing closed surfaces and to define open ended passages through said first and second cross bars;
- (d) said ring-shaped body having four slots formed therethrough each being disposed to align with a different one of the open ends of said first and second cross bars of said divider means;
- (e) strap means passing through the passages of said first and second cross bars and through the slots of said ring-shaped body in a manner which places the opposite ends of said strap means proximate each other on the periphery of said ring-shaped body for demountably mounting said divider means in the bore thereof;
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- (f) means for releasably interconnecting the opposite ends of said strap means.
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A golf bag for carrying golf clubs in segregated groups comprising, in combination:
- (a) a golf bag having an elongated tubular container with means for closing one end and having an opposite open end;
- (b) a ring-shaped body at the open end of said golf bag, said body defining a bore having diametrically opposed top and bottom portions and a diametrically opposed pair of side portions when said golf bag is in a normal carrying attitude;
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- (c) divider means in the bore of said body to separate the diametrically opposed top and bottom portion and the pair of side portions from each other, said divider means including,
- I. a first cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- II. a second cross bar including a pair of arms which extend oppositely and angularly from a central vertex with those arms being disposed to define an obtuse included angle therebetween,
- III. said first and second cross bars being disposed so that the obtuse angles defined thereby face in opposite directions and their respective vertices are in aligned spaced apart relationship with respect to each other,
- IV. a transverse rib interconnecting the aligned spaced apart vertices of said first and second cross bars.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.