U.S. patent application number 12/740108 was filed with the patent office on 2010-12-09 for golf club cleaning device.
Invention is credited to Oscar Vidal Hernandez Manero, Federico Pujol Boj.
Application Number | 20100306936 12/740108 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 41567133 |
Filed Date | 2010-12-09 |
United States Patent
Application |
20100306936 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Hernandez Manero; Oscar Vidal ;
et al. |
December 9, 2010 |
GOLF CLUB CLEANING DEVICE
Abstract
The invention relates to a portable, sealed device intended to
clean the end part of a golf club, i.e. the metal part which is
designed to hit the ball and which, as a result, is exposed to dirt
upon hitting the ground and collecting dust, mud and similar
substances that adhere thereto. The metal part must be cleaned each
time a ball is struck in order to prevent the ball from deviating
from the direction intended by the user as can happen when
accumulated dirt strikes the ball instead of the metal part.
Inventors: |
Hernandez Manero; Oscar Vidal;
(Terrassa, ES) ; Pujol Boj; Federico; (Terrassa,
ES) |
Correspondence
Address: |
JEROME D. JACKSON (JACKSON PATENT LAW OFFICE)
211 N. UNION STREET, SUITE 100
ALEXANDRIA
VA
22314
US
|
Family ID: |
41567133 |
Appl. No.: |
12/740108 |
Filed: |
November 10, 2008 |
PCT Filed: |
November 10, 2008 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/ES2008/000694 |
371 Date: |
April 27, 2010 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
15/104.92 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A63B 57/60 20151001 |
Class at
Publication: |
15/104.92 |
International
Class: |
A63B 57/00 20060101
A63B057/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Nov 8, 2007 |
ES |
P200702967 |
Nov 10, 2008 |
ES |
P200803249 |
Claims
1. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs of the type which
consists, strictly speaking, of the golf club wooden made or made
of similar material in which, in the end part, there is an attached
concrete metal part that is cleaned when needed by a brush and
water, characterized in that the device that is made up of a
container element which end parts have an upper basis affected in
its central part by an outer entrance, and a lower basis fitted by
a circular skirt respectively, and in that the interior of the
device there is a flat section in which, from the lower part, a
support in the form of a disk leans on.
2. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first
claim, characterized in that the upper and lower basis are adjusted
to the interior surface of the container element, by its circular
skirts at the end parts of the said container element.
3. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs according to the first
claim, characterized in that the fixed disk that includes a
circular joint on its lateral surface which adjoins the interior
surface of the container element.
4. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first
claim, characterized in that the container element has a
cylindrical configuration.
5. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first
claim, characterized in that the flat section has an outer entrance
reachable from the block from which longer sides emerge bristles in
planar distribution which end parts define an interior outer
entrance.
6. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first
claim, characterized in that the support has the form of a disk and
can slide through the interior of the container element and its
interior surface, through two guiders, against the spring expansion
effect, which lower end of leans on the lower basis, and upper
basis leans on the support.
7. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first
claim characterized in that in the lower basis of the device and in
its central part an interruption valve has been built-in which
becomes hermetic by a joint which function is to empty the
container element of the cleaning solution, clean up its interior
and fill it up again.
8. Improved device for cleaning golf clubs, according to the first
claim characterized in that the liquid container in is accessible
only by pressing on the support and withdraws itself in a hermetic
way when the pressure is released, allowing its transportation in
any position.
Description
[0001] More precisely, the invention refers to a device of new
conception made up of a container element of cylindrical
configuration with a fitted outer entrance on its upper side
through which the golf club and its metal part is placed to be
cleaned by a brush containing a cleaning solution in the interior
of the said device.
[0002] The purpose of this portable and sealed device is to have
the end part of the golf club cleaned, in other words, the metal
part is designed to hit the ball and which as result of its
specific function is exposed to dirt upon hitting the ground and
collecting dust, mud and similar substances that adhere thereto and
that must be cleaned each time the ball is struck in order to
prevent the ball deviating from the direction intended by the user,
as a consequence of the said ball striking dirt first instead of
the mentioned metal part.
[0003] Records of the said device are not known, therefore, for the
time being, in most of the golf fields, users clean the end part of
the golf club by means of a water jet and a conventional brush;
there has not been any other kind of tool designed for that
purpose.
[0004] The proposed device consists of a container element,
preferably of a cylindrical configuration, although other kinds of
configurations are possible, the said element includes two basis in
both end parts, the upper and the lower basis, the first one has an
opening and the second one closes the said container element.
[0005] The upper basis has an opened area or outer entrance whose
perimeter is appreciably rectangular through which the end part of
golf club has an entrance, in other words its metal part, until it
reaches a cylindrical block with an outer entrance surrounded by a
planar bristles distribution like brushes leading to a parallel
flat section on the upper basis with an opened area or outer
entrance that leads to a hollow or tank full of a cleaning liquid
solution.
[0006] The parallel flat section is a disk whose opened area
defines an outer entrance through which the metal part of the golf
club is inserted untill it hits another disk that can slide upwards
and downwards and vice versa of the container element, and that is
full of the cleaning solution.
[0007] The cleaning solution can move upwards from the lower side
of the container element, depending on the free space left when the
mobile disk moves downwards, between this disk and the interior
surface of the said container element, when the end part of the
golf club is pushed by the mentioned disk, so that the cleaning
solution moves upwards through the empty area, staying on top of
the said disk and being able to move, in a guided way, the said
disk upwards and downwards of the container element whose lower
basis, besides shutting the chamber from the interior side, has a
small interruption valve to empty the tank, clean it and fill it up
again with cleaning solution.
[0008] All the integral parts of the device are easily removable
and its design allows for an easy assembly and cleaning of these
parts, since the manufacture of the device is of an extreme
simplicity and its cost of manufacture is low.
[0009] Other details and characteristics will be highlighted
throughout the following description in which attached drawings to
this report are mentioned for illustrative purpose, and not as
limitation to a practical execution of the invention.
[0010] The following list shows in detail the main elements of the
invention that are graphed on the end forms; (10) device, (11)
upper basis, (12) lower basis, (13) container element, (14) outer
entrance, (15) flat section, (16) brushes, (17) spring, (18)
opening, (19) outer entrance, (20) support, (21-22) skirt, (23)
brush mounting block, (24-25) upper and lower parts of the
container element (13), (26) joint, (27) interior surface of (13),
(28) mobile disk guiders, (29) scrapers (elastic joints) of guiders
(20), (30) interruption valve, (31) joint, (32) joint, (33) scraper
mounting to (20), (34) belt support mounting and (35) belt support,
(36) o-ring joint of (15), (37) set of brush mounting (16) to the
block (23), (38) Set of block mounting (23) to fixed disk (15),
(39) Set of basis mounting (11) and (12) to container (13), (40)
Set of mounting of (33) the support (20), (41) Set of guider
mounting (28) to the lower basis (12) and flat section (15), (42)
Set of mounting of (34) to the container (13)
[0011] FIG. 1 is a perspective of the device (10) for the cleaning
of the golf clubs.
[0012] FIG. 2 is a partial and sectional perspective of the device
(10) that allows us to visualize the interior parts of it.
[0013] FIG. 3 is an upper side view of the device (10) and, more
precisely, of the block (23) and its brushes (16).
[0014] FIG. 4 is a raised, lateral and partially sectional view,
with details of the upper and lower basis coupling (11-12) in the
container element (13) and other parts of the device (10).
[0015] FIG. 5 is a partially sectional perspective of the device
(10).
[0016] In one of the preferred embodiment that is the object of the
present invention and, as viewed in FIG. 4, the device (10), shows
a container element (13) preferably cylindrical, which upper and
lower parts (24-25) shut through the upper and lower basis (11-12),
and each one of them has a skirt (21-22), hermetically sealing the
lower part of (13) in relation to the lower basis (12) by a joint
(26).
[0017] In the lower basis (12) and, as viewed in graph N.sup.o 4,
an interruption valve is placed in its central part (30) being
hermetic to the said basis (12) by a joint (31), whose valve
function (30) is to empty the container element (13) of the
cleaning solution, clean its interior and fill it up again.
[0018] In the interior part of the device (10) and, approximately
in the middle, there is a flat section (15), in the form of a disk,
fixed by guiders (28), that are in touch, from the bottom, with a
support (20), and a o-ring joint (36), that divides the container
element (13) in two halves also cylindrical, as you can visualize
in FIG. 4.
[0019] The said flat section (15), as viewed in graph N.sup.o 2, 3
and 5 shows an outer entrance (18) preferably rectangular of minor
concave basis, through which the end part of the golf club is
inserted, not shown in the figures.
[0020] The support (20), as viewed in graph N.sup.o 2, shows the
form of a disk guided by (28), that can slide in the interior of
the container element (13), against the spring expansion effect
(17), which lower end leans on the lower basis (12), and upper end
leans on the support (20) against the o-ring joint (31).
[0021] The operation by the user in front of the device (10) is the
following: the golf club is inserted in the outer entrance (14) of
the upper basis (11), so that the end part faces the lower basis
(12), the metal part of the golf club moves downwards by the
interior of the container element (13) and when it reaches the
support (20) it is pushed downwards by pressing the spring (17), at
the same time that the cleaning solution contained in the interior
(13) moves upwards through the space between (20) and (13)
spreading the metal part of the golf club not shown in the
figures.
[0022] A differentiating advantage of this invention in relation to
other cleaning systems is that it is a portable accessory thanks to
its sealing system.
[0023] Sufficiently describing the present invention with the
corresponding attached figures makes it easy to understand that it
is possible to make any modification to this invention regarding
details that would be considered convenient, as long as these
variations does not affect the essence of the invention that is
reflected in the following claims.
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