US2477251A

US2477251A - Golf bag carrying handle

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Publication number: US2477251A
Application number: US603229A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hotze Albert
Original assignee: Henry Hotze & Sons Co
Current assignee: Henry Hotze & Sons Co
Priority date: 1945-07-04
Filing date: 1945-07-04
Publication date: 1949-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1966-07-26

Description

- Jul 26,1949. HOTZE 2,477,251

GOLF BAG CARRYING HANDLE Filed July 4; 1946 zg am if 7 0 6 9 BY y zw Patented July 26, 949

, GOLF BAG CARRYING HANDLE Albert Hotze, St. Louis, Mo., assignor to Henry Hotze & Sons Company, a corporation of Missouri Application July 4, 1945, Serial No. 603,229 2 Claims. (01. 150-15) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a golf bag and is a furthering of the structure disclosed in Hotze U. S. LettersPatent No. 2,006,920, the instant application, however, pertaining more particularly to a specific manner of securing the carrying handle to the reinforcing structure and/or the bag wall.

Another object of the invention is to provide a carrying handle of an improved construction for a golf bag.

A further object is to provide a golf bag carrying handle of a contour which when grasped in carrying the bag, will sustain the bag-mouth thereof in an upwardly inclined position.

I Still another object is to provide a golf bag carrying handle of a formation whereby the user or carrier of the bag, upon gripping the handle, is instinctively directed to grasp the handle at a specific part thereof.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in thedetails of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary longitudinal section taken through a golf bag with the improved carrying handle secured'to the reinforcing structure on the bag.

Figure 2 is a plan elevation of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of a golf bag shown on a reduced scale to illustrate a carrying fault which is overcome by the application and use of the carrying handle of this invention.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing, 4. indicates a portion of a golf bag having a wall 5 and the bag-mouth 6. Secured to the wall 5 in a desirable manner is a reinforcing structure 1 of an approximate Y-shape, having the leg 8 thereof extending to the bag-mouth 6 and the branches 9 partially encircling the wall 5 of the bag.

A carrying handle I is preferably made of leather layers H and i2 which are stitched together at the hand-gripping part i3, and secured to the leg 8 of the reinforcing structure 1 by a rivet I4, the layers II and I2 rearwardly of the part l3 of the handle and from the rivet l being spread apart, the extending end of the layer ll being secured to the leg 8 by a, rivet l6 and 2 the extending end of the layer l2 being secured to the D-link l1.

Secured to and extending from the D-link I! are a pair. of branch straps l8 having their extending endssecured by rivets iii to the ends of the respective branches 9 of the reinforcing structure I.

The layer I2 of the handle l0 may be subdivided to provide an extending layer 20 for securing the layer l2 to the D-link l1 and the buckle 2| to which one end of the shoulder strap 22 is adjustably secured, the other end of the strap being secured to the bag mouth and/or extending end of the leg 8 of the reinforcing structure 1 by the D-link 23.

In carrying a loaded golf bag by using either the shoulder strap 22 or the handle ill, the usual approximate carrying position is that as shown in Fig. 1 in which the bag is inclined from the horizontal. However, it quite frequently happens that the carrier when sustaining the bag by the handle [0 will grasp the lower part of the handle thereby distorting its shape from that indicated in dotted lines A to that in full lines B in Fig. 3.

In the position shown in Fig. 3 the carrying strains from the handle to the bag will be diverted rearwardly toward the longitudinal center of the bag lengths, thereby occasioning the bag to assume an approximate horizontal carrying position, which position is accentuated by reason of the heavy heads of the playing clubs being disposed at the mouth end of the bag.

When the golf bag is carried in the approximate horizontal position as indicated in Fig. 3 obviously the jogging of the bag brought about by walking of the carrier, will tend to cause the clubs to slide from the bag mouth, and this fault is therefore overcome by the application and use of the handle ill of the character herein disclosed, because of the defined hand-gripping part l3 which is permanently maintained in a fixed contour for instinctive grasping, since the layer ll of the handle is fixed to the leg 8 of the reinforcing structure I.

With the extending end of the outer layer l2 of the handle I0 being connected to the D-link ll of the branch straps I8, lifting strains will be carried to the branches9 of the reinforcing structure I, and as the handle [0 is also connected to the structure I by the rivets l4 and IS, the carrying strains from the shoulder strap 22 and the handle II! are distributed in the manner intended by the invention of Patent No. 2,006,920 aforesaid.

Having thus described the invention so that those skilled in the art will be able to practice the same, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is defined in what is claimed, it being understood that various changes in the device shown and described in detail and not amounting to invention, may be made without departing from the spiritya-nd scopeof m y invention.

What 'Ielaim is:

1. A golf bag having longitudinally disposed reinforcing structure secured to the bag wall and extending from the mouth thereof lto eaidistance intermediate the bag length, said reinforcing structure comprising a body portion having ,a pair of branches which extend-around theigirth of the bag wall, and a carrying handle having an end part and an intermediate part=secureda tolthe body portion of said reinforcing structure, said carrying handle having an extending part with a free end which is indirectly secured to the respective branches of said lreinforcing structure.

2. A golf bag having longitudinally disposed reinforcing structure secured tozthe bag Wall and extending from the mouth thereof to adistance intermediate the bag :length, said vreinforcing structure comprising a body portion having a pair of branches which extend around the girth of the bag Wall, and a carrying handle having an end part and an intermediate part secured to the body portion of said reinforcing structure and an extending part with a free end, and a pair of branch straps each being secured at one end to arrespective branch of ,said.reinforcing structure and-ahtheir other endsto=the freeend of the extending part of said handle.

ALBERT HOTZE.

'REFERENGES CITED "fhefollowing reierenlces are of record in the file of this patent:

, STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 15109215 Pierce Sept. 30, 1924 1,727,578 Wengard Sept. 10, 1929 1 ,936,021 Hutchinson Nov. 21, 1933 -2,006,920 Hotze July'2, I9-35 230063921 ictze 'Juiy'Z, 1935 "236L935 Roberts June 13,1939 22949684 Gihon-etal 'Aug. 25, 1942