US1856837A - Golf bag - Google Patents

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F. E. KIP

GGLF BAG May 3, 1932.

Filed Oct. 11, 1929 H)E:TOR Y ATTORNEYS.

gwawae? Patented May 3, 1932 UNITED STATES FREDERIO E. KIP, OF MON'TCLAIR, NEW JERSEY GOLF BAG Application filed October 11, 1929. Serial No. 398,985.

This invention is an improvement in golf bags, and more particularly in the compartments usually found with bags for holdlng the balls.

Q In the usual construction of bag, the ball compartment, which is of flexible material, and includes a receptacle and a cover therefor, in the form of a flap, has no means for securing the cover into place, except a strap and buckle.

For this reason any unauthorized person can gain access to the balls merely by unbuckling the strap, and unscrupulous persons are liable to purloin some or all of the balls,

35 when the bag is unguarded.

One of the primary objects of the present invention is the provision of a bag, having a ball compartment, provided with the usual covering flap and having mechanism in con- 2 nection therewith for enabling the flap to be locked to the wall of the compartment, thus closing it, and preventing unauthorized removal of the balls.

Another object is the provision of a form of locking mechanism, of a character to substantially connect the flap throughout its width to the compartment wall, thereby to entirely prevent access to the balls until the flap is released.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts fully described hereinafter, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims appended hereto, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing is shown a front elevation of a part of a golf bag, showing the ball compartrnent provided with the improvement. The present embodiment of the invention is shown in connection with a golf bag of usual construction, indicated at 1, and of any desired material. The bag has the usual ball compartment indicated at 2, adapted to be closed by a flap 3, which may be connected to the outer wall of the compartment by a strap 4: and a buckle 5.

With this arrangement it is apparent that to gain access to the balls 6 in the compartment, it is only necessary to unbuckle the strap, and when the bag is away from the im mediate supervision of the owner, there is no protection for the balls.

The ball receptacle and the flap are usually of flexible material, such as cloth of a suitable character, leather, or the like, and it will be apparent that any locking mechanism for connecting the flap to the outer compartment wall must connect said flap throughout substantially its entire width, or at points well spaced apart from each other and so arranged as to make impossible sufficient sep aration of the flap and container wall between such points to extract a ball.

With this purpose in view, I provide the flap with openings 7 near its opposite side edges, and the side walls of the receptacle Wide openings 7, shown in dotted lines. These openings are so placed that when the flap is in closed position those of the flap and the side walls of the receptacle will be in register.

Each of the openings is reinforced by a grommet or eye-let 8, and a bolt 9 is adapted to be passed through the registering openings at each side of the flap and receptacle wall, the said bolt having at one end a loop 10, providing a handle for manipulating the bolt, and providing a stop for limiting the movement of the bolt through the openings.

The opposite end of the bolt has an opening 11 through which may be passed a shackle I 12 of a padlock 13, any suitable form of padlock being adapted for the purpose. It will be apparent from the description and the drawing, that the flap is connected with the receptacle wall, so that it cannot be separated from the wall over a distance sufficient to enable the extraction of a ball, without removing the bolt and this can be done only when the padlock is opened with a key.

What is claimed as new is In a golf bag having a pocket for balls comprising sidewalls and an outer or front wall, a flap adapted to overlie said front wall and portions of the side walls, each of said side walls having an opening therein, said flap having openings adjacent its side edges adapted to register With the openings in the side Walls when the flap is folded down over the front Wall and said portions of the side Walls, reinforcing elements in said openings, and a bolt adapted to be passed through said openings with its ends disposed at the sides of the pocket, and a lock for the bolt at one of said ends.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 20th :day (Tf September, A. D. 1929.

FREDERIO E. KI P.

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