Golf club grip cleaner

A hand-held portable device for cleaning a golf club grip comprising:

• a generally tubular, elongate housing open at its ends and having a slot extending along its length from one end to the other end, the slot communicating with the open ends;
• cleaner pad means mounted within the housing and having a longitudinally extending slot and open ends, said slot and open ends being aligned with the slot and open ends of the housing, the cleaner pad means being generally U-shaped in transverse cross-section, the cleaner pad means including a wetting pad and a flexible, resilient backing sheet to which the wetting pad is mounted;
• the ends of the housing having flanges for engagement with and containment of opposed ends of the backing sheet;
• means for precluding rotation of the cleaner pad means about a longitudinally extending axis comprising flanges extending along the edges of the longitudinally extending slot for engaging the backing sheet of the pad assembly;
• means carried by the housing for wetting the wetting pad including a liquid reservoir carried by the housing and pump means for pumping liquid from the reservoir onto the wetting pad;
• whereby a golf club grip may be inserted into the cleaner pad means transversely through the slots in the housing and the cleaner pad means and may be substantially encompassed by the cleaner pad means, and may then be drawn longitudinally whereby the cleaner pad means may effect a cleaning action on the grip.