Combination golf ball and club head cleaner
OwnerEdward Mauroinventor
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Abstract
A combination golf ball and golf club head cleaner that is mounted to the fender of a golf cart or to a conveniently located post. The device includes a water-tight housing member having a first brush-lined cylindrical chamber for cleaning a golf ball and a second brush-lined parallelepiped chamber for cleaning a club head. A ball holder that retains a ball while allowing it to rotate when scrubbed is mounted for reciprocation along its vertical axis in the ball cleaning chamber. Brushes lining the first chamber scrub the ball and rotate it as the holder is reciprocated. The chambers are in fluid communication with one another so that removal of a single plug drains both chambers.
Claims17
A device that cleans golf balls;
- comprising:
- a first cleaning chamber having cylindrical sidewalls;
- said first cleaning chamber having a plurality of horizontally disposed bristle members that extend radially inwardly relative to said sidewalls, said bristle members extending substantially from a top part of said cleaning chamber to a bottom part thereof;
- a flexible pad member from which said bristle members extend;
- a generally tubular in configuration golf ball retention member;
- said retention member having a diameter greater than a golf ball's diameter;
- said retention member having a length less than a golf balls' diameter;
- a substantially cylindrical cavity being collectively defined by radially innermost ends of said bristle members;
- said cylindrical cavity having a diameter greater than the length of said retention member;
- said cylindrical cavity having a diameter less than the diameter of a golf ball;
- a plate member that carries said retention member;
- a handle means being fixedly secured to said plate member in surmounting relation thereto;
- a second cleaning chamber;
- said second cleaning chamber having a first plurality of horizontally disposed bristle members disposed therein, extending in a first common direction;
- said second cleaning chamber having a second plurality of horizontally disposed bristle members disposed therein, extending in a second common direction opposite to said first direction;
- opposing ends of said first and second plurality of bristle members being in closely spaced juxtaposition to one another so that a golf club head is insertable therebetween;
- means bringing said first and second cleaning chambers into fluid communication with one another;
- said means being an aperture means formed in said pad member.
A device that cleans golf balls and golf club heads, comprising:
- a first open-topped cleaning chamber for cleaning golf balls, said first cleaning chamber having cylindrical side walls;
- at least one flexible pad member disposed in at least partially overlying relation to said cylindrical side walls;
- a first plurality of bristles being mounted on said at least one pad member and extending radially inwardly therefrom;
- means for moving a golf ball in relation to said first plurality of bristles;
- a second open-topped cleaning chamber for cleaning golf club heads, said second cleaning chamber having a generally parallelepiped configuration;
- a lid for capping said first and second cleaning chambers;
- a pair of flexible pad members being disposed in overlying relation to preselected side walls of said second cleaning chamber, in confronting relation to one another;
- a second plurality of bristles being mounted on associated pad members of said pair of pad members and confronting groups of said second plurality of bristles extending toward one another so that both sides of a golf club head reciprocated therebetween are brushed thereby;
- and
- said first and second cleaning chambers being in fluid communication with one another;
- a predetermined pad member disposed within said device being apertured to provide said fluid communication.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.