US1747715A - Golf bag - Google Patents

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Feb. 18, 1930. 1 p HQOPER 1,747,715

GOLF BAG Filed April 30, 1928 Patented Feb. 18, 193@ are JAMES IP. HOOPER, OF R'UXTON, MARYLAND, ASSEGNO?, TO WM. E. I-IOOPER 6L SONS COMPANY, OF BALTIMRE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION 0F MARYLAND GOLF BAG Application led April 30,

The necessity for an exceptionally light golf bag, particularly for use by players not attended by Caddies, has been generally recognized and such bags, known as week-end bags on account of the additional dithculty incident to obtaining caddies over the week ends when there are a large number of players on the links, have been manufactured and become generally recognized as a commercial article by dealers and players.

l/Vhile the heavier bags are provided with longitudinal reinforcing members and stiffening means at the ends so that they can be stood on end with or without other lateral support, thus retaining the clubs in position, the extremely light bags especially adapted to be carried by the player', i. e., bags of the so-called week-end type, are made of light fabric, the reinforce being omitted to reduce the weight. These bags are subject to the difficulty that when an attempt is made to stand them upright with the clubs in position in the bag they are apt to collapse accordionwise, releasing the clubs. For this reason the so-called week-end bag is of advantage only on account of its lightness. As a holder for the clubs it is quite inferior to the heavier bags7 as it must be held suspended by the strap or laid flat to avoid collapsing.

The present invention relates t0 a golf club bag which is as light as, or which exceeds so slightly in weight the typical weekend bag as to serve all the purposes of the latter. Itis, therefore, available for all purposes for which the former product is used and it possesses at the same time amply sutilcient stiffness so that it serves all the purposes of the heavily stiffened and reinforced bags which may be stood upright, holding the clubs in position without any tendency to collapse, as described in connection with the previously known week-end bags.

The bag which is the subject of the invention, while it is made of a fabric substantially as light as that used for the flimsy bags previously constructed for this purpose, contains no longitudinal or lateral stiffening members corresponding to the stiffening or reinforcement of the heavy bags, the stilfening feature in the present instance resulting 1928. Serial No. 273,815.

from the use of a stiifening liber. This is shown in the form of a Wire enclosed within the yarn or thread of which the fabric is woven.

In the accompanying drawings l have illustrated a bag embodying the featuresof my invention in the preferred form. I have also illustrated in detail a fabric and'reinforce adapted to the production of the desired result.

ln the drawings:

Figure l is an elevation of the bag con* structed in accordance with the invention in the preferred form.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure l.

Figure 3 is an elevation corresponding to Figure l showing a small fragment of the bag on an enlarged scale.

Figure 4 is an elevation of a fragment of the preferred fabric for this purpose, likewise on an enlarged scale.

Figure 5 shows a short length of the rein-` forcing member enclosed in the yarn in accordance with the preferred form of the invention.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, each of which is used to indicate the same or similar parts inthe different figures, the bag n of the invention, in thepreferred form as shown, consists of an elongated receptacle l open at the top at 2 and closed at the bottom at 3, as indicated. This bag is shown as pro-' vided with a shoulder strap a in accordance with the regular practice in the construction 0f golf bags.

An important feature of the invention consists in the production of the bag as an eX- ceedingly light structure which retains its form in upright and in all positions without collapsing and without the use of heavy longitudinal or lateral reinforcing members. To this end the material of which the bag yis made is textile or suitable fibrous material preferably spun into yarn or threads 6 and woven or otherwise formed into a fabric or other webbing or sheets 5, which is interwoven with fine reinforcing and stifening means 8. A wire which is conveniently available for this purpose is known as music wire.

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In the form of the invention shown, this reinforcing and stiffening Wire 8 is enclosed in textile fibers forming reinforced yarn 12 which comprises a portion of the yarn used in the fabric 5 as illustrated in Figure 5. This may be most easily accomplished by spinning the yarn about the Wire or otherwise Wrapping the drawn and partially spun sliver or mat 9 of fibers about the Wire 8.

In the form of the invention shown, the sides of the bag are formed of a tubular portion 10 Which may be bound at the top at 11 surrounding the opening 2 and closed at the bottom by means of the bottom member 3 and this tubular portion 1U, in accordance with the preferred form of the invention illustrated, may be Woven on a circular loom, the reinforced yarn 12 containing the Wire 8 serving as the weft or filling 7 the Warp 14; being of the ordinary type though this exact arrangement of the fibers or the manner of Weaving and constructing is not regarded as essential.

In accordance With the construction shown and described the Weft or filling 7 extends around the tubular portion 10 of the bag in the form of a flat helix, the patch of which 'is equal to the diameter of the weft. The bag formed of this fabric is, as already pointed out, suiiciently stiE to stand upright. In fact, it retains its shape to much better advantage than the majority of heavy and reinforced bags and is at the same time prac- Y tically as light as the collapsible bagsalready referred to.

I have thus described specifically and in detail a single preferred embodiment of the invention in order that the nature and manner of constructing the same may be fully understood, the terms herein being used descriptively rather than in a limiting sense, the scope of thel invention being defined in the claims.

What Iy claim as new and desire to secure my Letters Patent is:

1. A golf bag composed of woven textile fabric, the fabric having Warp threads extending in the direction of the length of the bag and weft threads extending around the bag, the Weft threads comprising fine vWire enclosed in textile fiber.

r2. A golf bag comprising a tubular member of textile fiber closed at one end, the tubular member consisting of Warp threads extending in the direction of the length of the tube and weft thread consisting of a Wire enclosed in textile fiber-and extending around the tubular' stif'fening members interwoven in and With the fabric.

Signed by me at Baltimore, Maryland, this 27th day of April, 1928'.

JAMES P. HOOPER.

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