Automatic support stand for golf bag
AssigneesSoon Ja Lee, YounJoung Lee
InventorChang K. Chung
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Abstract
A device is provided for supporting a golf bag having support legs extended and retracted as required. The device has an upper hinge bracket fixed to an upper portion of a golf bag, a lower hinge bracket fixed to a lower portion of the golf bag, a support leg assembly having an upper hinge element, an offset actuating lever pivotally connected to the lower hinge bracket and having a lower hinge element, and an actuating assembly pivotably connected between the upper hinge element and the lower hinge element. The offset actuating lever is pushed upwardly by contact with the ground so that support legs are extended by the upward movement of the actuating lever and the rods when the golf bag is tilted toward the support legs on the ground while the support legs are retracted by its own weight when the golf bag is erected.
Claims28
A device for supporting a golf bag, comprising:
- an upper hinge bracket fixed to an upper portion of an outer surface of a golf bag;
- a lower hinge bracket fixed to a lower end portion of the outer surface of the golf bag and positioned in the same vertical line as the upper hinge bracket;
- a pair of pivot arms pivotably connected to the upper hinge bracket;
- a pair of support legs fixed to the pair of pivot arms, respectively, each of the support legs having an upper hinge element at an upper part thereof;
- an offset actuating lever having an inner end portion and a free end portion that is upturned with respect to and angularly offset from said inner end portion to define a fulcrum location between said inner end portion and said free end portion, said offset actuating lever pivotably connected to the lower hinge bracket and having a lower hinge element at its said free end portion and spaced away from said fulcrum location;
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- a pair of actuating rods each pivotably connected at its upper end to the upper hinge element and pivotably connected at its lower end to the lower hinge element, said free end portion of the offset actuating lever being rotated upwardly by rocking of the offset lever along said fulcrum location thereof when said fulcrum location is in contact with the ground so that the support legs are extended by the upward movement of the free end of the offset actuating lever and the rods when the golf bag on the ground is tilted toward the support legs, and the support legs being retracted by their own weight when the golf bag is erected.
An automatic support stand and golf bag supported thereby, comprising:
- a support leg assembly pivotably connectable to an upper portion of a generally vertical wall of a golf bag, said support leg assembly having a pair of support legs that extend outwardly from the wall of the golf bag;
- an offset actuating lever pivotably connectable to a lower portion of the golf bag at a pivot location spaced upwardly from a bottom, ground-engaging surface of the golf bag, said offset actuating lever having a lower connecting member;
- an actuating rod assembly pivotably connected at an upper end thereof to said support leg assembly and at a lower end thereof to said lower connecting member;
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- said offset actuating lever having a first section extending from said pivot location at the lower portion of the golf bag, said offset actuating lever having a second section containing the lower connecting member and being offset from said first section such that said second section but not said first section is oriented for ground engagement when the golf bag is in an upright, erect orientation and such that said second section having the lower connecting member is rotated upwardly about a fulcrum surface spaced apart from said lower connecting member by contact with a ground surface so that the support legs are extended by a rocking motion of the offset actuating lever that effects the upward movement of the second section of the actuating lever and the actuating rod assembly when the golf bag on the ground surface is tilted toward the support legs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.