Golf bag balancing attachment and method

a technology of golf bag and balancing mechanism, which is applied in the direction of rigid containers, transportation and packaging, sports apparatus, etc., can solve the problems of affecting becoming quite painful and damaging, and achieve the effect of eliminating the tendency of the bag and relieving the pressure on the back of the user

US20020195358A1Inactive Publication Date: 2002-12-26WALKER JOHN
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US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
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Publication Date
2002-12-26
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Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

An attachment for a golf bag which achieves a balancing of the bag when longer clubs are being carried. The attachment includes a belt element which is wrapped around the top of a golf bag. The belt includes an extension element which is positioned at the front, top side of a golf bag. The resulting installation creates a balanced golf bag effect and thus takes pressure off the back of the golf bag carrier.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The present invention is generally related to the golfing arts and, in particular, to a novel design for use in combination with a golf bag.

[0002] When full of golf clubs, especially longer golf clubs used by taller people, the golf clubs tend to lean forward toward the mid-back of the person carrying the golf bag.

[0003] Such creates a continuing pressure on the mid-back of the person carrying the bag and, over the course of playing eighteen holes of golf, can become quite painful and damaging to the back of the user.

[0004] Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to set forth a novel golf bag attachment design to reduce or eliminate to forwardly transmitted forces from a golf bag to the back of a person carrying a golf bag.

[0005] It is also an object of the invention to show a balancing golf bag attachment which may be easily used and readily attached to the top of a golf bag.

[0006] It is a further object of the invention t...

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[0020] Referring to the drawing FIG. 1, a conventional golf bag 10 is shown as having a forward portion 11 and a rearward portion 12. A strap 14 for carrying the bag 10 on the back-shoulder 18 of a user is also shown.

[0021] A set of golf clubs 16 carried within the golf bag are also shown.

[0022] As previously noted, the golf clubs 16, especially when longer clubs are used in a conventionally sized golf bag, tend to lean forward toward the back or shoulder 18 of the user.

[0023] Thus, a pressure P is created on the back of the golf bag carrier. Over eighteen holes of golf, such pressure P can create significant back pain and other discomfort for the user.

[0024] The conventional golf bag 10 shown in FIG. 1 may also have snaps 30a at the top thereof for attaching various items to be described.

[0025] FIG. 1 also shows an upper, forward portion of the golf club bag at numeral 11a.

[0026] FIG. 2 shows a belt 20 and attached extension element 22 which are placed around the bag 10 so that the...