US1868979A

US1868979A - Golf bag

Info

Publication number: US1868979A
Application number: US417315A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hotze Charles
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1929-12-30
Filing date: 1929-12-30
Publication date: 1932-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1949-07-26

Description

nuoonn HELL/Ll" l HbLLO- Patented July 26, 1932 PATENT OFFICE CHARLES HOTZE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI GOLF BAG Application filed December 30, 1929. Serial No. 417,315.

This invention relates to an improvement in golf bags and pertains more particularly to an improvement in the mouth ring of the bag for providing an improved manner of cooperation with the golf clubs while being carried in the bag.

Another object of the invention is in providing a golf bag at its mouth or golf 'club receiving end with improved means for eliminating valleying o'r bunching of the clubs so that ease of access to the clubs may be had.

A. further object of the invention is in providing a golf bag with an improved mouth ring.

Other and further objects will appear in the specification and be specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, exemplifying the invention, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a golf bag showmg this improvement applied to the Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section taken through the upper portion of the golf bag.

4 b Figure 3 is a plan view of the mouth of the Figure 4 is a pprspective view of the mouth ring used in the ag.

In the use of the present type of golf bags which are carried in an approximate position of inclination as shown in Fig. 1 by the strap 2 being engaged over the shoulder of a golfer or caddy, it is found that the circular mouth permits the golf clubs to bunch one upon the other on the lower inclined side of the bag. This is occasioned by the clubs gravitating to the low side of the mouth ring and thus bunching one upon another and requiring that the golfer or caddy spread the bunched clubs for selecting the next desired club to be used. This improvement in golf bags and particularly the mouth ring is therefore adapted to prevent the bunching or valleying of the golf clubs at the mouth ring of the bag.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, 3 desi ates the golf bag having the bag wall 4, the ase 5 and at the upper end of the bag is the mouth 6. The mouthfi of the bag is reinforced by an said mouth ring being secured in position by an overlapping leather layer 10 which is inserted between the collars 7 and 8 in a desired manner. The mouth ring 9 is provided on one side with a straightened portion 11 and opposite thereto is an eyelet 12, said straightened portion being disposed on a plane lower or downward of the circular portions 13 of the mouth ring 9 and leading from the straightened portion 11 to each circular portion 13 is a downwardly inclined portion 14 forming side portions to the straightened portion 11.

The leather layer or covering 10 for securing the mouth ring 9 in position covers all of the ring 9 with the exception of the eyelet 12, said eyelet being for the securing of the carrying strap 2 thereto at its upper end, the lower end of the strap being secured to the golf bag in the usual manner.

As the carrying strap eyelet 12 is secured to the mouth ring diametrically opposite to the straightened portion 11 of the mouth ring, in the proper carrying of the bag in the approximate fposition shown in Fig. 1, obviously the gol clubs will incline against the lower side 15 of the bag and consequently the striking ends of the golf clubs will rest against the straightened portion 11 of the mouth ring 9, and as the straightened portion 11 is of some length, the golf clubs will wedge against each other in a somewhat straightened row thus preventing the piling or stacking of the clubs one upon another. This straightened manner of carrying the golf clubs in leaning positions against the straightened portion 11 of the mouth ring will provide for easy selection and grasping of a desired golf club to be next used by the golfer.

The inclined portions 14 provide side members for the golf clubs when reposing against the straightened portion 11, said inclined portions tending to prevent the clubs from climbing the circular portions 13.

In the use of the present type of golf bags 10c which is circular in shape at its mouth, the bag upon being inclined in the carryin posi tion causes the golf clubs to stack or unch upon one another on the lower side of the bag because of the curvature thereof provided by the circular mouth. Obviously, with applicants improved mouth ring having the straightened portion for cooperation with the inclining golf clubs, the clubs therefore will not pile as in the use of the present day circular shaped mouth ring.

If desired the mouth ring 9 can be made without the eyelet 12 and the carrying strap 2 can be secured to the ring 9 in opposite disposition to the straight portion 11 by a leather loop or the like.

While the mouth ring 9 is shown as being made from rod iron material, it is obvious that the ring can be made of any material such as .by casting a relatively deep ring or collar having a flattened or straightened portion and while but one showing of the invention is disclosed, it is not my intention to limit its scope to that particular embodiment or otherwise than by the terms of the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A mouth ring for a golf bag having a straightened portion disposed on a plane lower than the remaining portion of the ring, straight downwardly inclined portions joining the ends of said straightened portion with the remaining portion of the ring, and strap securing means in the form of an eyelet formed on the ring opposite to said straightened portion.

2. A month ring for a golf bag having a straightened portion and a straight downwardly inclined ortion joining each end'of said straightened portion with the remaining portion of the mouth ring.

,3. A golf bag having a body wall and a mouth ring secured to the upper end of said Wall having a curved portion and a straightened portion disposed on a plane lower than the remaining portion of the ring, and a straight downwardly inclined portion joining each end of said straightened portion with the curved portion of said mouth ring. 4. A golf bag having a bodywall and a mouth ring having a lower disposed straightened portion secured to the upper end of said wall, said mouth ring having a straight downwardly inclined portion joining each end of said straightened portion to the other portion of the mouth ring, carryin tra secured to said rin in opposite dispositlon to said straight ned portion thereof, said straightened portion being for cooperation with the golf clubscontained 1n the bag when the bag is borne in an inclined position by said strazp.

HARLES HOTZE.