Device attaching and hanging hook
AssigneeApple Sports, Inc.
InventorEric L. Deininger
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Abstract
A hook is provided for the grip end of a rod-like golf accessory in the form of a golf ball retriever. The grip outer surface is formed with a sinuous outer surface having concave and convex sections. An arm extends out proximate a top of the grip and a leg extends out from the arm down parallel to the grip and spaced from an outer surface of the grip. A distal end of the leg is angled in towards the grip surface to provide a narrowed entry into the space between the hook legs and the grip outer surface. The hook arm and legs are almost as wide as the narrowest part of the grip relatively thick to provide substance to the hook and somewhat flexible to facilitate flexure of a distal end of the hook leg when hooking the device over an upper edge of a golf bag.
Claims19
A hook for a rod-like sports device having at least a grip;
- comprising:
- (a) a hook arm extending out a first predetermined distance from the grip of the device;
- (b) a hook leg extending in a predetermined direction and for a second predetermined distance from said hook arm and so that an outer surface of said hook leg is proximate to the grip but spaced from the grip;
- (c) said hook leg including a distal end;
- (d) the grip including a sinuous outer surface having top, concave, and convex portions;
- (e) a first section of said hook leg being disposed to be spaced from said concave portion of said outer surface of the grip;
- (f) a second section of said hook leg being disposed to be spaced from said convex portion of the grip and terminating at said distal end;
- said distal end being spaced from said concave portion of said outer surface of the grip and being also spaced from an apex of said convex portion and extending past said apex of said convex portion to a side of said convex portion furthest removed from said concave portion;
- the space between said distal end of said second section of said hook leg and said outer surface of the grip being less than the space between said first section of said hook leg and said outer surface of the grip.
A rod-like sports device including a grip;
- comprising:
- (a) a sinuous outer grip surface for the grip of the rod-like device, said outer surface having top, concave, and convex portions;
- (b) a hook arm extending out a first predetermined distance from said grip outer surface proximate said top portion thereof;
- and
- (c) a hook leg extending from said hook arm in a predetermined direction and so as to be spaced from said grip outer surface;
- (d) said hook leg including a distal end that is also spaced from said grip outer surface by an amount which is less than the spacing of the rest of said hook leg from said grip outer surface;
- said distal end also being spaced from an apex of said convex portion of the grip outer surface and extending past said apex of said convex portion to a side of said convex portion furthest removed from said concave portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.