Golf bag

Abstract

An improved golf bag that upon frontal opening promotes the pivoted gravitational falling and forward, limited angular displacement of a plurality of tiered racks adapted to receive and maintain stationary placement of a plurality of golf clubs therein, thereby providing convenient and organized frontal presentation and accessibility to a variety of golf clubs, and wherein the golf bag is adapted to be seated and secured to the rear of a golf cart without external harnesses or straps, thus permitting the bag to extend beyond the rear of golf cart and provide free frontal access to the contents thereof.

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PRIORITY CLAIM TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]To the fullest extent permitted by law, the present continuation patent application claims priority to and the full benefit of non-provisional patent application entitled “Golf Bag”, filed on Sep. 30, 2003, having assigned Ser. No. 10 / 675,849.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates generally to golfing equipment, and more specifically to a golf bag that, among other features, advantageously provides frontal access to a plurality of tiered racks adapted to receive and removably retain a plurality of golf clubs therein, thereby preventing the jostling and contact amongst same, and the resulting damage thereto, during transport of the golf bag.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Conventional golf bags have historically provided golfers with a suitable apparatus for storing and transporting golf clubs both during play and thereafter. However, because the club heads are often exposed and / or protrude from the top of most such golf clubs,...

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Benefits of technology

[0018]Accordingly, a feature and advantage of the present invention is its ability to provide an improved golf bag that upon frontal opening promotes the pivoted gravitational falling and forward, limited angular displacement of a plurality of tiered racks adapted to receive and maintain stationary placement of a plurality of golf clubs therein, thereby providing convenient and organized frontal presentation and accessibility to a variety of golf clubs.

[0019]Another feature and advantage of the present invention is its ability to provide an improved golf bag that replaces conventional apparatuses and methods of golf club storage, transportation, and retrieval typically responsible for harmful jostling and contact amongst golf clubs retained therein.

[0020]Still another feature and advantage of the present invention is its ability to protect golf club heads from harmful scratching or contact amongst one another.

[0021]Yet another feature and advantage of the present invention is its ability to provide an improved golf bag that protects the golf shaft from undesirable yield stress during removal of the club from the bag, from external forces that may impart undesirable axial stress on the golf shaft, and from the harsh elements of weather or other external forces that damage otherwise exposed golf club heads.

[0022]Yet still another feature and advantage of the present invention is its ability to provide an externally located adjustable bracket, and a golf cart seating notch disposed on the bottom of the golf bag, to facilitate secured engagement and support of the golf bag to the rear of a golf cart without the need of external straps or harnesses.

[0023]A further feature and advantage of the present invention is its ability to provide a golf bag capable of fully enclosing and protecting all contents place therein.

Problems solved by technology

However, because the club heads are often exposed and / or protrude from the top of most such golf clubs, such bags are inherently deficient in their ability to protect the golf club from structural damage via forceful impact and / or collision of the clubs with one another, or with external surfaces during transport of the clubs and golf bag in a golf cart, within the trunk of vehicle, or the cargo / luggage storage bay of an aircraft.

Such forceful impact to the golf clubs may impart significant axial damage to club shaft, and structural damage to the golf head.

Moreover, because many such golf bags employ tubular slots or housings for each club, clubs placed therein are subject to jostling and movement therein during transport of the bag, thereby causing facial or surface damage to the club shaft (especially easily scratched graphite shafts), or result in the club sliding out therefrom during transport of the bag in a vehicle or the like, and thus, subsequent damage thereto.

As such, the clubs may still slidable move within the tubular housings, thereby resulting in surface damage to the shaft.

Moreover, should a soft cover be selected, axial damage to the club shafts is still a possibility.

Still another deficiency associated with conventional golf bags is the poor presentation, removability and accessibility of the clubs, thereby often contributing or lending to structural and facial damage to the golf club shafts.

However, due to the average length of such clubs, and the typical reach or upward arm's length stretch of the average adult golfer, removal of the club in such a manner often results in the club being drawn or pulled from the tubular slot at an angle (i.e., as opposed to directly upward), and therefore, imparts an undesirable yield stress on the shaft as the shaft is pulled up through and against the tubular housing.

Such removal also causes facial or surface damage to the club shaft.

Replacement of the golf club within such tubular slots is conducted in a similar manner, angle and motion, wherein most such golfers typically release the club when recessed within tubular slot sufficient distance, letting it forcefully drop therewithin, or, alternatively, forcefully thrust the club back into the tubular housing, thereby further subjecting the club shaft to undesirable yield stress and axial force.

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