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US 5,330,192 AGranted
Adjustable golf swing practice device
OwnerJames Amosinventor
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A golf trainer has a continuous hoop formed by curved angle iron circular segments which are interconnected with short angle iron connector segments. The major segments have forward-extending flanges which, when joined together, form one continuous forward edge. A plastic wear strip with a U shape is pressed over the continuous edge of the joined flanges to form a continuous plastic wear strip for guiding the shaft of a golf club. The hoop has four lugs which extend rearward, joining two anchor adjustments. A base rod has U-shaped feet formed at front and rear ends. A front end which terminates upwardly in a front loop is connected to a lower lug. A rear end of the base rod extends upwardly to a rear loop. A lower adjustment rod has a lower loop which connects to the rear loop. An upper adjustment rod has an upper loop which connects to an upper lug. Sliders connected to an upper end of the lower adjustment rod receive a lower end of the upper adjustment rod. A bolt with a hand knob is threaded into one of the sliders to secure the slider in a fixed position to the upper rod. The front loops hold the bottom of the hoop above the ground, and the adjustment rods fix the angle of the hoop. A golfer grooves his swing by standing in the hoop and guiding a heel area of his club shaft along the plastic wear strip at the front of the hoop.
A golf trainer comprises an 84" diameter hoop having six major circular segments made of angle iron, with bases and flanges, the bases of the segments lying flat and the flanges of the segments extending forward from the bases, plural angle iron connectors interconnecting the segments, each angle iron connector having a relatively short circular segment shape, and having a flat wall underlying an end of the flat wall of a major angle iron segment, and having a flange extending forward therefrom and extending partially along an outside of the flange of the major segment, one end portion of the connector being welded to one end of a major angle iron segment, and another end of the connector having openings for receiving fasteners extending through complementary openings in opposite ends of the major angle iron segments for assembling the segments into a hoop by abutting ends of the major segments and overlying ends of the major segments having the complementary holes with extended ends of the segment connectors, and fasteners extending through the holes and thereby joining the connectors and the major segments in a continuous hoop with uniform forward-extending flanges for forming one continuous line on forward-extending edges of the flanges, and a continuous U-shaped plastic wear strip having a closed forward portion and an open rearward portion connected to the flanges for covering the flanges with a smooth, continuous plastic strip, lugs connected to the segments and extending rearward therefrom in a direction opposite to the flanges, and adjustable anchors extending rearward and downward from the lugs.
A golf trainer comprises a hoop having major circular segments made of curved angle material and including bases and flanges, with bases of the segments lying flat and flanges of the segments extending forward from the bases, angle interconnectors interconnecting the segments, each angle interconnector having a relatively short circular segment shape, and having a flat wall underlying the flat wall of the major angle segments, and having a flange extending forward therefrom and extending partially along an outside of a flange of an adjacent major segment, one end portion of each connector being welded to an end of an angle segment, and another end of each connector having openings for receiving fasteners extending through complementary openings in opposite ends of the major angle segments for assembling the segments into a hoop by overlying ends of the major segments having the complementary holes with the extended ends of the connectors and aligning the holes in the connectors with the complementary holes in the major segments, and fasteners extending through the aligned holes and thereby joining the connectors and the major segments in a continuous hoop with uniform forward-extending flanges for forming one continuous line on forward-extending edges of the flanges, and a smooth, slippery continuous U-shaped plastic wear strip having a closed forward portion and an open rearward portion connected to the flanges for covering the forward extending edges of the flanges with the smooth, continuous plastic strip, and further comprising lugs connected to at least some of the segments and extending rearward therefrom in a direction opposite to the flanges, and adjustable anchors extending rearward and downward from the lugs.
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