US2739331A

US2739331A - Golf club attachment

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Publication number: US2739331A
Application number: US334312A
Authority: US
Inventors: Goodman Morris
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1953-01-30
Filing date: 1953-01-30
Publication date: 1956-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1973-03-27

Description

March 27, 1956 M. GOODMAN 2,739,331

GOLF CLUB ATTACHMENT Filed Jan. 30, 1955 20 L g 5 5 v 5 24` L! 26 Marr/s Goodman INVENTOR.

GOLF CLUB ATTACHMENT Morris Goodman, Sinking Spring, Pa.

Application January 3l?, 1953, Serial No. 334,312

1 Claim. (Cl. 15-184) This invention relates to sporting goods and more particularly to a novel device adapted to be associated with golf clubs.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a golf club having a brush secured at the end thereof opposite from the driving head, which golf club includes a handle which is slidably positioned about the shaft of the club so that it may conceal the brush when the brush is not in use, the handle also being slidably positioned on the shaft in order to adjust the length of the shaft so that persons of various heights and length of arms may comfortably and etiiciently use the particular golf club.

The construction of this invention features a sleeve on which suitable leather wrapping or other surfacing may be positioned. The sleeve is slidably positioned on a shaft and resilient means are used to lockingly hold the sleeve relative to the shaft in a given position. Means are provided for limiting the uppermost and lowermost positions of the sleeve relative to the driving head and a bristle brush is secured to the end of the shaft.

Still further objects of the invention reside in the provision of a golf club attachment that is strong and durable, simple in construction and manufacture, capable of being readily installed on existing golf clubs but being especially adaptable for mass production at a relatively low cost.

These, together with the various ancillary objects and features of the invention which will become apparent as the following description proceeds, are attained by this golf` club attachment, a preferred embodiment of which has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings, by way of example only, wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of the golf club comprising the present invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged elevational view of the handle of the golf club with the leather wrapping or other linishing covering removed therefrom;

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view as taken along the plane of line 3 3 in Figure 2 showing the construction of the device with the brush in an extended position and the golf club shortened;

Figure 4 is an elevational detail of the slide and the means for securing the slide to the sleeve, the slide riding in a groove in the shaft;

Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional view as taken along the plane of line 5 5 in Figure 3; and,

Figure 6 is a horizontal sectional as taken along the plane of line 6 6 in Figure 3.

With continuing reference to the accompanying drawings wherein like reference numerals designate similar .parts throughout the various views, reference numeral 10 generally designates a golf club employing the structure of the present invention. This golf club 10 includes a driving head 12 and includes a tubular shaft 14. The

nited States Patent tubular shaft 14 is adapted to be secured about a portion .16 of reduced cross-section of the solid shaft 18 forming the interior of the handle of the golf club.

The shaft 18 is slidably received within a sleeve 20, the sleeve 26 which is of a tapered outer configuration and provided with a knurling or an otherwise roughened surface so that a leather wrapping, as is conventional in golf clubs, may be wound thereabout and frictionally held securely thereto. At the upper end of the shaft 18 there is secured a brush 22 formed of bristles of nylon. A longitudinally extending groove 24 is formed in the shaft 18 for reception of a rather strong spring 26 which engages the inner surface of the sleeve 20. There is an additional longitudinally extending slot 28 in the shaft 18 and means for preventing rotation of the shaft 18 within the sleeve 2t? is provided. This means includes a slide 3i) slidably positioned within the groove 28. A screw fastener 32 is threadedly secured to the slide 30 and is counter-sunk in the sleeve 20. The sleeve 20 is provided with a recess forming a housing as at 34 for receiving the brush 22.

lt is to be understood that the spring 26 will hold the sleeve 20 in a set position limited only by the length of the groove 28 and the position of the slide 30 therein with the brush 22 either received within the recess 34 or extending as can be best seen in Figure 3. When the brush 22 is encased within the recess 34 the golf club is in an extended position and adapted to be used by comparatively tall persons. With the brush 22 in an opened position the golf club may be used in play by a comparatively short person. Further, the nylon bristles 22 are especially adapted to brush unnecessary dirt olf the green and tee, and may further be used to remove dust and dirt from a players clothes and for various auxiliary purposes.

Since from the foregoing, the construction and advantages of this golf club attachment are readily apparent, further description is believed to be unnecessary.

However, since numerous modiiications will readily occur to those skilled in the art after a consideration of the foregoing specication and accompanying drawings, it is not intended to limit the invention to the precise embodiment shown and described, but all suitable modifications and equivalents may be readily resorted to which fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

A part of a golf club comprising a shaft, a sleeve slidably positioned about said shaft, a housing formed in said sleeve, a brush secured to one end of said shaft receivable within said housing, resilient means for alternatively holding said brush within and outside of said housing and for determining the length of said part of the golf club, said means including a groove in said shaft, a spring seated in said groove engaging said sleeve, means for limiting the adjustment of length of the part of a golf club by adjusting said sleeve relative to said shaft and for preventing rotation of said sleeve relative to said shaft including a second longitudinally extending groove in said shaft, a slide member slidably positioned in said groove, and a fastener extending through said sleeve secured to said slide.

References Cited inthe le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,103,879 Hoffman July 14, 1914 1,776,443 Martin Sept. 23, 1930 1,918,519 Clements July 18, 1933 2,475,927 Verderber July 12, 1949