WO2006002940A1

WO2006002940A1 - Golf bag

Info

Publication number: WO2006002940A1
Application number: PCT/EP2005/007099
Authority: WO
Inventors: Rudi Franz
Original assignee: Rudi Franz
Priority date: 2004-07-01
Filing date: 2005-07-01
Publication date: 2006-01-12
Also published as: DE202004010281U1; EP1761314A1; AU2005259442A1; US20080169211A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a golf bag for receiving golf clubs, comprising a tubular housing part (100) and a storage space for golf clubs forming an inner rotating device which is rotatably arranged inside the tubular housing (100) about the longitudinal axis thereof, wherein an outer rotating device is also provided as a storage space for other golf clubs and/or golf utensils, such that the inner rotating device is arranged inside the annular outer rotating device. The outer rotating device (120), which is arranged inside the tubular housing part (100) and which can be rotated relative thereto about a common longitudinal axis (24), and the tubular housing part (100) are respectively provided with a longitudinal opening which extends along the length thereof, enabling golf clubs to be removed laterally from the rotating device or to be inserted into said rotating device(s).

Description

golf bag

description

The invention relates to a golf bag for dividing golf clubs, comprising a tubular housing part, in which a rotary support forming an inner rotary device is rotatably disposed about the central longitudinal axis, wherein the tubular housing part has a longitudinal opening extending parallel to the axis of rotation through the golf clubs the rotary stand laterally removable or can be used in the rotary stand.

Such golf bags are known from US-PS 4,673,082, US-PS 4,915,221, US-PS 6,615,982 B1 and / or US 2003/0106817 A1. In these golf bags, the golf clubs are each arranged in an annular rotatable drum magazine, either in such a way that the impact heads - when the drum is arranged vertically - are supported on the bottom of the magazine or protrude upwards out of the drum area. In this case, the beaters are each arranged in an annular cylindrical region, such that their central axes run in generatrices of a cylinder jacket. A disadvantage of these known golf bags is that when the magazine is designed, a number of rackets corresponding to the largest number of rackets that may be used in a tournament are the diameter of the magazine rotatable in the manner of a tube magazine, at 14 clubs - is very large and the golf bag on a standard golf carts (trolley) is not or at best with disproportionately high effort attachable. If, on the other hand, the racquet magazine can be carried by means of a standard standard trolley, a limitation of the golf clubs that can be carried along must be accepted, which is unacceptable for a committed golf athlete.

The object of the invention is therefore to provide a golf bag of the type mentioned, regardless of the portability of a competitive complete set of golf clubs nevertheless space-saving trained and comfortable by means of a conventional golf cart can be carried.

This object is achieved according to the principles of the invention by the overall combination of the features of claim 1 and with regard to detail going embodiments of the golf bag according to the invention by the features of the subclaims 2 to 15.

Provided by hereafter, as it were two-shell construction of the golf bag according to the invention with inside a tubular housing about a central axis rotatable inner turntable and a concentric with this, outer annular rotary stand the racket, z. B. the so-called woods can be arranged, the heads are arranged facing up, a particularly space-saving arrangement of GoIf- rackets and the receiving them golf bag parts is possible, such that the total cylindrical golf bag easily attached to a conventional Trol- ley and by means of such can be carried.

Further details of the golf bag according to the invention will become apparent from the subclaims and the following description of a special len embodiment with reference to the drawing.

Show it:

1 shows an overall view of a golf bag which can be moved by means of a trolley in a schematically simplified, perspective view,

Fig. 2 is a schematically simplified view of the golf bag according to FIG. 1 with a tubular housing part, a rotatably mounted in this outer rotary magazine for wood and a from this coaxially enclosed inner rotary magazine for eggs,

3 shows the cylindrical housing part of the golf bag according to FIGS. 1

Fig. 4 shows the inner rotating stand of the golf bag according to Figures 1 to 3, in a simplified schematic perspective view.

5 is an external view of the operating side - upper - section of the golf bag according to the figures 1 to 4,

6 to 9 representations of the golf bag according to FIGS. 1 to 5 in the section through 9 at right angles to the central longitudinal axis, in each case in different functional positions, for explaining the use of the golf bag according to the invention,

10 details of the division of the racket - receiving area of the golf bag according to Figures 1 to 9 and

FIG. 11 shows a schematic simplified view of a golf bag provided with a textile covering as in the rest of FIGS. 1 to 10.

The golf bag, generally designated 1 in FIGS. 1 and 2, is intended for use in golf for carrying rackets as well as golf balls and other utensils which are to be used as a result of the situation. In particular, the racquets should be protected against water and damage, and it should also be a suitable removal of the various golf club types and sizes and their orderly storage be possible in a simple way. The golf bag should be able to be carried comfortably by means of a special harness or be driven with a standard trolley.

According to the relevant golf rules, a maximum of 14 golf clubs may be taken on a round of golf, of which a maximum of eleven may be formed as so-called irons, which have relatively short shafts and other clubs, by means of which golf balls are driven over relatively long distances of up to 350 m can be formed as so-called woods can be formed, which have longer shafts and one of the racket is designed as a so-called putter, with the golf ball should be einlochbar to a relatively short distance. For the exemplary embodiment chosen for explanation, it is assumed that the golf bag is designed for eleven irons, four woods and one putter. However, it goes without saying that iron and wood should be able to be carried in other ratios. In the case of the golf bag 1, the iron 22, which is relatively short, is assigned an inner rotating device 110 as a rotatable magazine, in which the beaters 22 are received over their entire length, while the woods 23 are of the basic shape according to ring cylindrical or outside cylindrical and inside associated with a conical magazine, which is an outer, with the inner rotating device 110 kon¬ centric device 120 which is rotatable about the central longitudinal axis 24.

While the irons 22 are arranged so that their heads are supported on a circular disk-shaped bottom part 27 of the iron magazine 110, as it were designed as a rotating stand, that is, in the lower part of the golf bag 1, the woods 23 are in the outer rotatable ringzy¬ associated with them cylindrical magazine, which is formed by the outer rotator 120, arranged so that they are supported with their shaft ends on a lower circular ring-shaped base plate 11 and the woods 23 are arranged on the top of the golf bag 1 outstanding from their magazine 120, der¬ that the heads 28 are positioned relatively far outside the wood magazine 120. are orders. The coaxial with each other, around the central longitudinal axis 24 rotatable magazines 110 and 120 for the iron 22 and the woods 23 - all the clubs - are by means of a at the upper end 8 of the inner rotating device 110, ie the magazine for the Sliding iron 22 arranged rotary handle by hand relative to a fixed, ie fixed to the trolley 21 housing part 100 of the golf bag 1, such that the magazines 110 and / or 120 rotatable by rotation about the central axis of rotation 24 in defined positions are in which a selected wood 23 or a selected iron 22 from its associated position laterally removable in the region of a longitudinal opening 2/2 of the tubular outer Ge housing part 110 or selectively back into its associated Posi¬ tion within the respective magazine is.

Here, the removal of the bat 22 and 23 is not axially but horizontally by hand. It can also be "semi-automatic", ie. H. z. B. servo-assisted assisted, which is e.g. can be realized in a simple manner by means of a bat¬ teriegespefeisten engine.

The golf bag 1 is designed so that by a selection operation of the rotary handle 29, z. B. by a limited axial displacement thereof from ei¬ ner first functional position into a second functional position and vice versa, is selectable, whether - in one functional position - the inner - tubular - magazine 110 for the iron 22 alone with respect to this Magazine surrounding outer magazine 120 is rotatable for the woods 23, or whether - in the other functional position of the rotary handle 29 - both magazines 110 and 120 are rotatable together relative to the outer housing tube 100 of the golf bag 1.

The preselection for removing an iron is made with the rotary handle 29 (FIG. 4), which is arranged at the upper end 8, so that within a window of the upper part 8 of the inner magazine 110 the corresponding number of the selected racquet becomes visible. For removal This racket then has to rotate the outer rotary unit 120 together with the inner rotary unit 110 in such a way that a recess (A) provided for removing the selected racket, shown in detail in FIG. 6, coincides azimuthally with the longitudinal opening 2 / 2 is arranged according to the illustration of Figures 1 or 3, and thus the iron, as it were through an open area of the outer rotator 120 therethrough from the inner rotator 110 - the inner "iron" magazine - can be removed.

In order to remove a specific wood 23, regardless of the position in which the inner rotating device 110 is located within the outer rotating device 120, it is only necessary to arrange the wood for removal in the suitable position within the removal opening 2 / 2 of the outer housing shell 100, with which a radial, open-edge removal slot 130 of the upper cover ring (FIG. 5) of the outer rotator 120 is in communicating connection.

To explain further structural details of the golf bag 1 according to the invention, reference is now made to relevant details of FIGS. 3 to 11.

The illustrated in Fig. 3, tubular-cylindrical housing part 100 a provided with the elongated longitudinal opening 2/2 cylindrical shell 33 and a circular disc-shaped bottom 34, of which centrally for pivotal mounting of the inner rotator 110 - the iron magazine - via provided cylindrical Bolt protrudes whose central axis 24 also marks the axis of rotation for the rotors 110 and 120.

The bolt 2, which extends over only a small part of the entire length or height of the housing part 100, is provided at its free end with a groove-shaped recess 2/1 for a Seeger securing ring 36, for axial fixing of a receiving socket 4 (Fig. 4), which nem radial "lower" annular flange 37 on the inside of the bottom 34 of the housing part 100 is supported, which forms as it were the lower sliding bearing element for the pivotal mounting of the inner rotary member 110.

The longitudinal opening 2/2 of the housing part 100, whose longitudinal edges 2 / 2I and 2 / 2r are parallel to the longitudinal axis 24, extend over the predominant part of the length or height of the jacket 33 of the tubular housing part 100 Seen in the direction of the central longitudinal axis 24, an azi¬ mutalen distance α of about 60 ° from each other, which corresponds to typical dimensions of the longitudinal opening 2/2 a clear width w of the longitudinal opening 2/2 from 12 to 15 cm, which is convenient Removal of iron from the inner magazine is sufficient. The circular bottom 34 of the housing part 100 is sufficiently stable that the golf bag 1 can be parked vertically on its flat bottom. Between the upper transverse edge of the longitudinal opening 2/2 and the upper substantially circular front edge of the shell 33 of the tubular housing part, a narrow longitudinal slot 39, whose width is sufficiently measured that the shaft of a removable from the outer rotary magazine 110 wood 23 effortlessly extends can be moved through.

The upper end edge 38 serves for engagement in an annular groove of the upper annular cover 32 of the outer rotary part 120 (FIG. 5) and, as far as the upper rotary guide element for the outer rotary device 120 forming the magazine for the woods 23, forms the " can be inserted from above into the tubular housing part 100.

As a "lower" guide member 39 of the outer rotator, the outer edge 39 / a of a lower annular disc 39, which is connected to the upper ring disc 32 by four elongated trapezoidal struts 41 (see Figures 6 to 9), which connects the space between the two annular disks 32 and 39 divided into four 90 ° sector areas A, B, C, D, which in turn, at least partially, by sector-shaped intermediate floors (Fig and Fig. 9) can be used in receiving compartments for receiving various golf items.

Three of the sector areas A, B, C, D, in the selected embodiment, the areas B, C and D are in the exemplary embodiment chosen for illustration by a conical inner wall extending between the upper ring cover 32, and the lower annular disc 39 extends, against the kom¬ plementär conically edged interior of the golf bag 1 abgeschlos¬ Sen, which is penetrated axially by an elongated, thin-walled tube 6, which carries at its upper end the rotary handle 29 and at its unte¬ ren end passive fit with the receiving socket. 4 is connected, which forms the bottom-side pivot member for the inner rotatable magazine for the iron 22.

A flat pot-shaped circular receiving bed 3/1 (FIG. 4) is fixedly connected to the lower end of the tube 6 and is guided in a slidable manner in the vicinity of the bottom 34 with its low, enveloping jacket area inside the housing tube 100. In this bed 3/1 the iron with their club heads, adapted to the bed form-fitting, supported, this bed 3/1 introduced into the pot 3, z. B. is poured. Elastic flexible holders 5 and 7 (FIG. 4) for the shanks of the irons 22 are fastened one above the other at a vertical distance to the tube 6 and provided with open-edged, not specifically illustrated recesses in which the shanks can be positively frictionally fixed. As a result of the holders 5 and 7, which are preferably made of rubber-elastic material, the inner rotating device 110 and, as a result, the outer rotating device 120 are also protected against damage by the golf clubs 22 and / or 23.

In the outer rotator 120 is formed by the two struts 41/1 and 41 / r which form the longitudinal boundaries of the sector quadrant A (Fig. 10), a radially inwardly conically tapering space bounded through which iron 22 can be removed, if this free space is at the same time arranged so that it is accessible through the longitudinal opening 2/2 of the tubular housing part 100.

The other quadrant areas, which are internally closed on the inside by the conical inner wall 40 and can be subdivided into vertically stacked receiving compartments by the intermediate floors 42, can be used for stacking purposes for golf utensils, which in turn are turned over the longitudinal opening 2/2 of the tubular housing part 100 are accessible for filling or for removal with or from objects.

In an expedient design of the receiving compartments, it is provided that at least one of the receiving compartments, which are arranged on one side by the slit-shaped free space of the outer rotary part and which are arranged within a quadrant, eg. B. of the quadrant D are arranged opposite to the quadrant, within which the woods are held, are provided with Abdeckun¬ conditions by which they are together tightly closed. By turning these receiving compartments in the closed state into the region of the opening slit of the tubular housing part 100, these covers can then be used to close the longitudinal opening and thus to seal off the interior of the golf bag.

Appropriately, it may be further if the upper part by means of its own cover or cover is tightly covered.

In the embodiment chosen for illustration, as shown in FIG. 7, receptacles 46/1 to 46/4 for the shaft ends of woods 23 are provided only in the quadrant B of the outer rotator 120 and are designed as elastically yielding retaining elements which abut the top of the annular disc 39 are arranged. Furthermore, a tube 13 for receiving an umbrella (not shown) is provided in this area, which can be pulled "vertically" upward out of the quadrant area B, regardless of where this area is located azimuthally.

Furthermore, in the receiving areas bounded by the longitudinal struts 41 and the transverse beams 14 and 42, holders or covering devices for articles can be provided which can be accommodated in these quadrants.

Insofar as the stacking area which can be limited by the longitudinal webs and any transverse bottoms and covering devices should not be sufficient for accommodating utensils, additional luggage bags (FIG. 11) can be provided which can be adapted to the shape of the golf bag 1 in a form-fitting manner other suitable way can be narrowed at this than bag or bag-like supplements.

It is also possible a complete covering of the golf bag 1, such that it externally designed as a conventional golf bag and is of virtually no discrimination bar, if such is desired by a user.

In the golf bag according to the invention, the impact heads 26 of the irons 22 are arranged in the annular space between the lower annular disk 39 (FIG. 2), the outer rotary device 120 and the annular disk-shaped bottom part 27 of the inner rotary device 110, this arrangement being seen in the direction of FIG common central longitudinal axis 24 of the two Drehein¬ directions of a configuration of vanes of a fan wheel ana¬ log is.

In order to be able to remove the irons comfortably, within the sector area A of the outer turning device, the trapezoidal shape is substantially Recess 47 (Fig. 10) is provided, through which the head 26 of each selected iron can be conveniently led out and reinserted.

An expedient configuration of the golf bag also corresponds to an outer region of the outer rotary device 120, which protrudes from the housing part 100, being substantially circumferentially closed, but at least having a longitudinally extending slot for removing thugs through which the shaft of the can pass through to be removed iron.

Furthermore, it is expedient if the recess in the bottom of the outer rotary device 120 and the slot in the upper region of the outer rotary device are arranged at the same azimuthal position.

Claims

claims

1. Golf bag for accommodating golf clubs, with a tubular Ge housing part (100), with an inner rotating device forming a rotary stand in the tubular housing part about its longitudinal axis

(24) is rotatably disposed, said inner rotating means (110) for receiving golf clubs, and with an outer rotating means (120) forming, annular rotary stand for Auf¬ acceptance of other golf clubs and / or golf utensils, wherein the inner rotating means (110 ) in the annular, outer rotator

(120) is arranged and the outer rotator (120) in the rohr¬ shaped housing part (100) is arranged and relative to this Ge housing part (100) about the common longitudinal axis (24) is rotatable, and wherein the tubular housing part (100 ) has a longitudinal opening (2/2) extending in the longitudinal direction through which golf clubs can be laterally removed from or inserted into the inner rotary device (110) and / or the outer rotary device (120).

2. Golf bag according to claim 1, wherein at least one cover (18) is present at the outer rotating means (120), which is azimuthally wider than the longitudinal opening (2/2) of the housing part (100), so that the Innen¬ space of the golf bag ( 1) by a relative rotation between the Ge häusemantel (100) and the outer rotator (120) closed

3. Golf bag according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the inner Drehein¬ direction (110) for receiving iron (22) is designed.

4. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the outer Drehein¬ direction (120) is designed for receiving putters and / or woods and / or golf utensils.

5. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the inner Drehein¬ direction (110) on a bolt (2) in the housing part (100) is rotatably mounted, wherein the bolt (2) in a receiving opening (4) on the Bottom of the inner rotator (110) engages.

6. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein an upper end (8) of the inner rotating means (110) of the housing part (100) and the outer rotator (120) protrudes upwards and an actuation device (8; 29) for rotating the inner rotator (110).

7. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the inner Drehein¬ direction (110) comprises a rod or a pipe (6) around which the golf clubs (22, 23) are groupable, wherein in the upper part of a

Scale (19) is arranged with club numbers.

8. Golf bag according to claim 7, wherein the rod or tube (6) is provided with a lower pot (3) having a receiving bed (3/1) for receiving clubheads of golf clubs.

9. Golf bag according to claim 8, wherein the pot (3) in a bottom region (2, 34) of the housing part (100) is rotatably guided.

10. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the housing part (100) is formed as a sleeve whose upper end for insertion of the outer rotator (120) is open, wherein an upper end of the outer rotator (120), the lower housing part (100 ) surmounted above.

11. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the outer Dreh¬ device (120) received in their in the housing part (100) Area circumferentially with the exception of the cover is substantially of¬ fen and at least two, preferably four, circumferentially equidistantly distributed and narrow in the circumferential direction struts (10, 41).

The golf bag of claim 11, wherein the struts (10) extend over a radial portion of the outer rotator (120) and divide the outer rotator (120) into at least two, preferably four sector-shaped compartments (A, B, C, D) ,

13. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 12, wherein the outer Dreh¬ device (120) at its lower end a bottom (11) having a recess (1) for removing or for introducing Schlä¬ like in the inner Rotary device (110).

14. A golf bag according to any one of claims 1 to 13, wherein an upper portion of the outer rotator (120) protruding from the housing part (100) is circumferentially substantially closed, and has at least one longitudinal slot for removing bats.

15. Golf bag according to claim 13 and 14, wherein the recess (1) in the Bo¬ the outer rotating means (120) and the at least one slot in the upper region of the outer rotating means (120) are arranged at azimuthally glei cher position.

16. A golf bag according to any one of claims 13 to 15, wherein the upper portion of the outer rotator (120) and / or the cover (18) of the outer rotator (120) is transparent.

17. Golf bag according to one of claims 1 to 16, wherein it in the Gehäu¬ seteil (100), the inner rotating means (110) and the outer Drehein¬ direction (120) can be dismantled.