Golf-club carriers

Application filed September

This invention relates to golf bags, and more particularly to means adapted to be combined with or incorporated in golf bags for supporting the clubs in a manner which 6 keeps them in order so that each club is readily available and avoids liability of damage to the clubs when they are being carried around the golf course or are being transported or stored. The invention is in the 10 nature of an improvement upon the invention disclosed in my application Serial No. 254,669, for Golf bags, filed February 16,

It is an object of the invention to provide 15 holding means adapted to receive and hold the clubs individually and to hold them against rattling and against rubbing engagement with one another.

It is a further object of the invention to 20 provide an attachment rack for the clubs which can be readily applied without tools and without alteration, to bags of various sizes.

Other objects and advantages will herein25 after appear.

In the drawings forming part of this specification :

Figure 1 is a plan view of a golf bag having a golf club holder embodying features of the 30 present invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary, Sectional elevation taken through the upper part of the bag of Figure 1; and

Figure 3 is a sectional, detail view taken 35 through the golf club holder.

As seen in Figures 1 and 2, a golf bag 1 has a rack 2 secured to a bead 3 at the mouth of the bag by spring metal clips 4. The rack comprises an arcuate spring metal strip or ⁴⁰ band 5 which is normally of about the shape and size shown in Figure 1. The clips 4 are secured to this metallic band by rivets 6. U-shaped bracket members 7 extend around the band 5 and are secured to the band by ⁴⁵ rivets 8. The inwardly reaching arms 9 of the bracket members embrace an arcuate racklike member 10 formed of resilient rubber. Rivets 11 pass through the opposite arms 9 of the brackets and through the member 10 and 60 secure these parts together.

IS, 1928. Serial No. 305,625.

The rubber member 10 is provided with circular openings 12 for reception of the club shafts, and each of these openings has a flaring mouth 13 through which a club shaft may be inserted or withdrawn. The mouth 13 of 65 each opening tapers to a neck through which a club shaft may be forced only by deformation of the rubber. The fit is snug enough to cause the shaft to be held against accidental dislodgment after it has passed 00 through the neck and entered the opening 12. Insertion and withdrawal of a club may be easily effected, however, by moving the club longitudinally at the same time that it is being pressed through the neck. 05

Owing to the fact that both the band 5 and the member 10 are of flexible material, the rack 2 may be applied to bags of all average sizes without preliminary adjustment. If it be assumed, for example, that the bag 1, 70 illustrated in the drawings, is a bag of large size, then the rack 2 could be fitted to a bag of less circumference simply by drawing the ends of the rack toward one another. The rack would conform to the mouth of such 76 smaller bag, but would extend more nearly the entire distance around the circumference of the bag.

The rack is adapted to hold the clubs with the club heads turned outward, as illustrated 80 by the club 14 of Figures 1 and 2, or with the club heads turned inward, as illustrated by the club 15 of Figure 1. This is a desirable feature, since it enables the club heads to be turned outward for convenient accessi- 85 bility when playing around the course, but to be turned inward when being transported or at any time when the covering of the clubs with a hood is desired.

While the attachment has been illustrated M herein as extending nearly all the way around the mouth of the bag, it will be appreciated, of course, that the invention might be practiced by applying two or more relatively short racks to the bag. Such a construction 95 is sometimes desirable, for example, for segregating the wooden clubs from the iron clubs. Such short racks can, of course, be arranged in any desired relationship to one another circumferentially of the bag. 10*

1,768,803

While I have illustrated and described in detail certain preferred forms of my invention, it is to be understood that changes may be made therein and the invention embodied η in other structures. I do not, therefore, de° sire to limit myself to the specific construction illustrated, but intend to cover my invention broadly in whatever form its principle may be utilized.