WO2013067559A1

WO2013067559A1 - Cleaning device for golf clubs

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Publication number: WO2013067559A1
Application number: PCT/AT2012/000277
Authority: WO
Inventors: Rainer Erne
Original assignee: Rainer Erne
Priority date: 2011-11-08
Filing date: 2012-11-02
Publication date: 2013-05-16

Abstract

Cleaning device (1) for golf clubs, wherein the cleaning device (1) has at least one housing (2) and at least one spray nozzle (3), preferably a plurality of spray nozzles (3), for spray-washing the golf club and at least one brush (4), preferably a plurality of brushes (4), for brushing off the golf club, wherein the spray nozzle (3) or the spray nozzles (3) and the brush (4) or the brushes (4) are fixed within the housing (2).

Description

Cleaning device for golf clubs

The present invention relates to a cleaning device for golf clubs.

Golf clubs are contaminated by dust and mud when playing. After the game, the golf clubs must therefore be cleaned. When

Cleaning device are usually used in the prior art, a water bath and a sponge.

This has the disadvantage that the golfer himself becomes wet when cleaning the golf club. In addition, the cleaning of the golf club is connected in this way with a not inconsiderable expense.

The object of the invention is to propose a cleaning device for golf clubs, in which the mentioned disadvantages of the prior art are eliminated.

According to the invention, this is achieved by the cleaning device comprising at least one housing and at least one spray nozzle, preferably a plurality of spray nozzles, for spraying the golf club and at least one brush, preferably a plurality of brushes for brushing the golf club, wherein the spray nozzle or the spray nozzles and the brush or The brushes are mounted inside the housing.

Through the spray nozzle or spray nozzles, it is possible to first spray the golf club by means of a cleaning medium. The brush or brushes are used to brush the golf club. The housing prevents the golfer from coming into contact with the cleaning medium during the cleaning process. To clean the golf club, it is sufficient to insert it in the appropriate manner in the cleaning device and to move in what also allows a particularly simple way of cleaning the golf club.

As a sprayable by the spray nozzle or the spray nozzles cleaning medium can be used in principle various liquids but also gases. Preferably, it is liquids such. B. water. It may, for example, to pure water z. B. from a conventional water pipe but also act with soap or other cleaning agents added water.

Basically, but also the cumshot by means of a gas such. As air or a liquid gas mixture conceivable.

For the purposes of effective cleaning, preferred variants of the invention provide that the cleaning device has a plurality of, preferably exactly four, brushes which are arranged opposite one another at least in part, preferably in pairs, whereby the golf club can be guided for brushing between the brushes arranged opposite one another , In such

Arrangements effective brushing is already achieved when you pass the golf club between the brushes arranged opposite each other.

Furthermore, it is beneficial in terms of effective cleaning, if the

Cleaning device has a plurality of spatially distributed and / or each other, preferably in pairs, oppositely arranged spray nozzles, wherein the

Golf clubs can be passed for spraying between the spray nozzles. This ensures that the golf club is sprayed all around or from different, preferably all, sides.

In principle, it is conceivable to arrange the spray nozzle or spray nozzles and the brush or brushes in the same area within the housing. It is cheaper, however, if the spray nozzles splash the cleaning medium on the golf club before the golf club is brushed between the brushes. For this purpose, preferred embodiments of the invention provide that the housing a Insertion opening, through which the golf club is insertable into the housing, wherein a first compartment within the housing in which the golf club can be sprayed by means of the spray nozzles between the insertion and a second compartment within the housing, in which the golf club brushed off by means of the brush is, is arranged.

To prevent the cleaning medium from the

Housing outlet, preferred variants provide that the housing a

Having insertion through which the golf club is inserted into the housing, wherein the insertion opening at least in part by means of at least one, in itself flexibly deformable and / or flexibly deformable suspended cover body

is covered. The flexibly deformable or flexibly deformable suspended cover bodies may be corresponding flaps, cuffs or the like.

act. Thus, the cover body may be formed as a sequence of plates or lobes partially overlapping each other. For example, it may be correspondingly rigid rubber mats o. The like. Act. A preferred alternative provides that the cover body or is designed as at least one bristle arrangement or are. Particularly preferred are two oppositely arranged bristle arrangements.

Particularly preferred embodiments provide in this context that the housing, apart from the insertion opening for the golf club and possibly existing inlets and outlets for the cleaning medium, an otherwise completely closed shell to the interior of the

Housing forms, wherein the spray nozzle and nozzles and the brush or brushes are arranged in the interior.

In order to be able to guide the cleaning medium to the spray nozzles, preferred embodiments of the invention provide that the cleaning device has an inlet, which is in communication with the spray nozzle or nozzles, for a cleaning medium which is preferably under overpressure. Overpressure basically means any pressure above the internal pressure within the Housing is therefore usually above atmospheric pressure. To keep the consumption of cleaning medium as low as possible, preferred variants provide that the cleaning device has at least one, preferably purely mechanically operable, valve which is arranged between the or the spray nozzles and the inlet for the cleaning medium. The valve may be a ball valve. It is particularly favorable if the valve can be actuated by means of a trigger that can be actuated manually or by foot. Acting in this sense means switching the valve from its closed position to its open position and / or back.

Preferred embodiments of the cleaning device according to the invention come without electrical power. In this sense is convenient

provided that the cleaning device is designed to be operated only mechanically and via an applicable to the or the spray nozzles overpressure of a cleaning medium. This means that the cleaning device can be operated everywhere, where a corresponding connection of a

Overpressure standing cleaning medium provides. If no external pressure source is available, then a pump in or on the

Cleaning device, such as e.g. a hand pump, be provided to produce the required pressure in the cleaning medium.

Deviating from these variants without the need for a power supply, however, cleaning devices according to the invention can also be designed so that they use electric current. For example, An electrical trigger, such as a push button or a button, can be used to switch an electrically operated valve to the spray nozzles and / or ggfls. apply existing cleaning tank cleaning nozzles with cleaning medium. As an electrically operated trigger can instead of push button and button and a

Be provided, for example, in the region of the insertion. It can also be provided an electric pump to generate the overpressure in the cleaning medium. As a power source such as photovoltaics, batteries, accumulators but also common power connections can be used. In order to be able to connect a supply hose of the cleaning medium to the inlet, preferred variants of the invention provide that the inlet has an inlet connection to which a corresponding hose can be connected. For example, this inlet socket can be plug-in or screw-type joints of commercially available garden hose connections. To that

To be able to discharge cleaning medium from the housing again, preferred variants of the invention provide that, viewed in the operating position, below the brush or the brushes, an outlet of the cleaning device to the outlet of

Cleaning medium is arranged from the housing. Such outlets are to be provided in particular when the cleaning medium is a liquid.

The figures show different views of two inventive

Embodiments of a cleaning device for golf clubs. Show it:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view obliquely from above of the first

inventive embodiment;

Fig. 2 is a first side view of the first embodiment, wherein the

Housing is shown transparent;

Fig. 3 is a rotated by 90 ° otherwise but analogous side view, as in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan view of the first embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the first embodiment of the invention with removed cover and

6 and 7, a second embodiment according to the invention.

Fig. 1 shows the embodiment of the cleaning device 1 in one

perspective view. The housing 2 can, as realized here, be designed as a vertically standing and / or elongated tunnel. In the operating position shown in Fig. 1, the housing 2 is this

Embodiment at the top of a removable cover 14th

completed. The completely removable cover 14 is here with the

Lid mounts 15 attached to the housing 2. In the illustrated embodiment is the insertion opening 5, through which the golf club can be inserted into the interior of the housing 2, in the lid 14. This can of course be so in other embodiments. Conveniently, the golf club in this but also in other embodiments by this insertion 5 are also pulled out of the housing 2 again. On the one hand the

On the other hand, to enable insertion of the golf club into the housing 2 but also to prevent cleaning medium from escaping from the housing 2 during the cleaning process, it is expedient, as explained above, for the insertion opening 5 to be flexible, at least in part, by means of at least one deformable or flexibly deformable suspended cover 8 can be covered. In the first embodiment shown, the cover bodies 8 are a sequence of partially overlapping one another

arranged rubber cloths or plates. These are elastic or flexible. They cover the insertion opening 5 in the state shown almost completely. In the middle, only a small hole remains free, which preferably has only a slightly larger diameter than the stem of a golf club. Due to the flexible design of the cover body 8, it is still possible, the much larger head of the golf club through this insertion opening 5 in the housing. 2

put it in and pull it out again after the cleaning process.

The housing 2 of the cleaning device 1 also has a foot 13 at its lower end. With the embodiment shown, rollers 12 are arranged under the foot 13, which allow to move the cleaning device 1 on the ground from one place to another. In Fig. 1 also the foot operable trigger 10 can be seen, with which a not explicitly shown here ball valve can be actuated. With the ball valve, the influx of

Cleaning medium from the inlet 9 to the spray nozzles 3 and here also to the

Sammelbeckenreinigungsdüsen 17 on and off or controlled. In the transparent representations of the housing 2 according to FIGS. 2 and 3, a first compartment 6 of the interior of the housing 2 can be seen. In this first subspace 6, the spray nozzles 3 are arranged for spraying the golf club. These spray nozzles 3 are connected via corresponding, not shown here in detail lines and said valve or ball valve, which can be opened and closed by means of the trigger 10, with the inlet 9 in connection. At the inlet 9 z. B. via a corresponding, not shown here,

Connecting a water hose or another hose to be connected with pressurized cleaning medium. The first compartment 6 is conveniently located between the already explained as already explained

In this second subspace 7 are the brush 4. This arrangement is favorable, since then when inserting the golf club through the insertion opening 5 into the housing 2 of the golf clubs first by means of the spray nozzles 3 is sprayed to then then brushed between the brush 4. How often the golf club during the cleaning process from the first subspace in the second subspace and back again, or is moved back and forth in the second subspace between the brushes 4, can be adapted to the degree of contamination of the golf club. In the operating position shown is the first

Subspace 6 thus conveniently over the second subspace 7. Below the second subspace 7 is in the first embodiment shown, a reservoir 16 in which the cleaning medium so preferably the

Cleaning fluid is collected. By means of the outlet 1 1, the cleaning medium no longer required, the collection basin 16 and thus leave the housing 2. The outlet 1 1 is, as shown here, conveniently on a side opposite the trigger 10 side of the cleaning device. 1 Of course, instead of the triggerable by foot trigger 10 could then be conveniently provided then further up and manually operable trigger 10. For electrical alternatives reference is made to the above.

The collection basin cleaning nozzles 17 serve to eject the collection basin 16 and are also conveniently connected to the inlet 9.

Conveniently, the pool cleaning nozzles 16 are then with

Cleaning medium applied, although the spray nozzles 3 with

Cleaning medium are applied. The regulation of the influx to the Spray nozzles 3 and the pool cleaning nozzles 16 is possible via a single valve. Of course, a separate valve could be provided for the pool cleaning nozzles 16, which can then be operated separately by means of a separate trigger.

In Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views of cleaning devices 1 are shown. In Fig. 4, the lid 14 is placed on the housing 2 and by means of

Lid mounts 15 attached to the housing 2. In Fig. 5, the lid 14 is removed from the housing 2, so that one sees the pairs of oppositely arranged brushes 4, between which the golf club and in particular his head can be brushed off. In preferred embodiments, such as shown here, the brushes 4 z. B. removable for replacement or cleaning of the housing 2. Preferably, they can be installed and removed without tools. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the brushes 4 are guided and held in rails 18 for this purpose. By means of the brush fixing 19 prevents the brush during the cleaning of the golf club move in position. In order to remove the brushes 4, the brush fixing 19 must first be opened in the embodiment shown. In the brush fixation 19, it may be z. B. to appropriate terminals, catch o. The like. Act.

6 and 7 show a second embodiment, which, however, is formed over large parts as the first embodiment. Consequently, only the differences are discussed. Everything else is like the first

Embodiment solved. FIG. 6 shows a representation analogous to FIG. 4 for FIGS. 1 and 7. The difference lies only in the design of the

Cover body 8 in the insertion opening 5. In the second embodiment, the cover 8 are formed as two opposing bristle assemblies 20, between the flexible bristles of the golf club is hindurchsteckbar. Of course, other arrangements and embodiments of

Boron assemblies 20 conceivable, as well as the number of bristle assemblies 20 may vary. Legend to the reference numbers:

1 cleaning device

2 housings

3 spray nozzle

4 brush

5 insertion opening

6 first subspace

7 second subspace

8 cover body

9 inlet

10 triggers

11 outlet

12 rolls

13 feet

14 lids

15 lid fastening

10 reservoirs

17 Collection tank cleaning nozzle

18 rail

19 brush fixation

20 bristle arrangement

Claims

claims

1 . Cleaning device (1) for golf clubs, characterized in that the cleaning device (1) at least one housing (2) and at least one spray nozzle (3), preferably a plurality of spray nozzles (3), for spraying the golf club and at least one brush (4), preferably a plurality of brushes (4), for brushing off the golf club, wherein the spray nozzle (3) or the spray nozzles (3) and the brush (4) or the brushes (4) within the housing (2) are attached.

2. Cleaning device (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the cleaning device (1) has a plurality, preferably exactly four, brushes (4), which are arranged at least in part, preferably in pairs, opposite one another, wherein the golf club for brushing between the oppositely arranged brushes (4)

can be passed.

3. Cleaning device (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the cleaning device (1) a plurality of spatially distributed and / or each other, preferably in pairs, arranged opposite one another

Having spray nozzles (3), wherein the golf club for spraying between the spray nozzles (3) can be passed.

4. Cleaning device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized

characterized in that the housing (2) has an insertion opening (5) through which the golf club can be introduced into the housing (2), a first one being provided

Part space (6) within the housing (2), in which the golf club can be sprayed off by means of the spray nozzles (3), between the insertion opening (5) and a second subspace (7) within the housing (2), in which the golf club is brushed off by means of the brushes (4) is arranged.

5. Cleaning device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized

characterized in that the housing (2) has an insertion opening (5) through which the golf club can be introduced into the housing (2), wherein the

Insertion opening (5) is at least partially covered by means of at least one, in itself flexibly deformable and / or flexibly deformable suspended cover body (8).

6. Cleaning device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized

in that the cleaning device (1) has an inlet (9), which is in communication with the spray nozzle or nozzles (3), for a cleaning medium which is preferably under overpressure.

7. Cleaning device (1) according to claim 6, characterized in that the cleaning device (1) has at least one, preferably purely mechanically operable, valve which is arranged between the or the spray nozzles (3) and the inlet (9) for the cleaning medium is.

8. Cleaning device (1) according to claim 7, characterized in that the valve is a ball valve and / or by means of a manually or by foot actuated trigger (10) can be actuated.

9. Cleaning device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized

in that the cleaning device (1) is designed to be operable exclusively mechanically and via an overpressure of a cleaning medium which can be applied to the spray nozzle or nozzles (3).

10. Cleaning device (1) according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterized

characterized in that, seen in the operating position, below the brush (4) or the brushes (4) an outlet (11) of the cleaning device (1) to the outlet of cleaning medium from the housing (2) is arranged.