Golf ball retriever
OwnerDo J. Leeinventor
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Abstract
A golf ball retriever enables a golfer to quickly and easily recover the ball from a muddy ground hazardous location and the like. The retriever includes a rod, a swivel coupling adjustably mounted on the rod for positioning the retriever at selective angular positions with respect to the ground, a head member fixedly attached to the swivel coupling, and a cage mounted on the head member for capturing a single ball or multiple balls within, depending on the size of the cage being used. The retriever cage is formed of flexible looped wires which are spaced apart sufficiently to permit passage of the ball therein. The ball is captured by contacting the ball with the cage in a direct or peripheral manner. Cages of various capacities can be readily interchanged on the retriever.
Claims4
A golf ball retriever for retrieving a regulation golf ball from a hazardous location, comprising;
- an elongated handle having a front end thereof;
- a cage element attached to said front end, said cage element having a head portion and three flexible individual looping members extending out from said head portion, each one thereof forming a capturing loop about the periphery thereof, each of said three flexible individual looping members fixedly secured to said head portion;
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- a retaining flexible loop element of said cage element fixedly secured to said head portion, said retaining flexible loop element including three engaging loops, each one of said engaging loops enclosed about each one of said three flexible individual looping members at a distal portion thereof relative to said head portion,
- wherein, the retaining flexible loop element is within a plane perpendicular to all three planes formed by the capturing loops of the three flexible individual looping members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.