US2382495A - Indicator - Google Patents

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W if/ Patented Aug. 14, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE INDICATOR John B. Malatesta, J r., North Hollywood, Calif. Application February 23, 1944, Serial No. 523,597

4 Claims.

This invention relates to an indicator for use in playing golf and it is an object of the invention to provide a device of this kind to be placed upon a pedal extremity of a player to enable the player to better determine the position of his feet and better line up the ball with respect to the tee.

The invention also has for an object to provide a device of this kind to facilitate putting on the green, by providing a ighting line which the player may interpose between the ball and the hole temporarily to indicate the line along which the ball is to be driven.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of several parts of my improved indicator whereby certain important advantages are attained, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that my invention may be better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in top plan of an indicator constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the invention and in applied position, the pedal extremities of a player using the indicator being indicated in fragment by broken lines;

Figure 2 is an enlarged view in top plan of the device as herein embodied unapplied;

Figure 3 is a view in side elevation of the device as illustrated in Figure 2; and

Figure 4 is a view in perspective from below of the device.

In the embodiment of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the indicator comprises an elongated flat plate I of desired material and dimensions, and which has its end portions 2, V-shaped with the apices a thereofbers 4 which, when the indicator is in use, are adapted to anchor the device to a shoe of the player and preferably at the lower part of the instep as shown in Figure 4. In the present embodiment of the invention, the members 4 are engaged within the bottom lace openings 5, of the shoe S.

Whenthe indicator is in applied position, the apices a, and the interposed connecting indicating line 3, provide means to facilitate the player lining up the golf ball with the green by positioning the foot upon which the device is mounted with the indicating line paralleling the line along which it is desired to drive the ball, thu resulting in the golfer materially improving his game.

When putting on the green the player may temporarily interpose between the ball and the hole the foot upon which the indicator is mounted, to facilitate the formation of a mental picture of the correct line along whichthe ball must be driven in order to drop the putt.

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obviousthat an indicator constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and operated.

I claim:

1. An indicator for use in playing golf comprising an elongated plate having an indicating straight line extending lengthwise thereof, and means for attaching the plate to the instep portion of an article of foot gear to extend transversely thereof.

2. An indicator as set forth in claim 1 wherei the indicating line extends from one end of the plate tothe other.

3. An indicator as set forth in claim 1 wherein the extremities of the plate are substantially V-shaped with the apices thereof outwardly disposed and aligned with each other and with the indicating line,

4. An indicator as set forth in claim 1 wherein the means for attaching the plate to the foot gear comprises members extending from the underface of the plate to engage with lace openings in the foot gear.

JOHN B. MALATESTA, JR.

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