A - Human Necessities – 63 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
63
B
273/187
A63B 57/00 (2006.01) A63B 47/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1072998
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE This invention relates to an improved golf ball retriever of the type which may be lowered directly over the ball. The retriever has a telescopic handle for reaching into water hazards and the like. The handle is pivotally connected to a body member which has a pair of lower forwardly extending curved arms and a retaining ring pivotally connected at its rear to the body member at a point above the plane of the curved arms. Thus the retaining ring normally slopes forwardly downward and rests on the ends of the curved arms. The ring is slightly larger in diameter than a golf ball and when the retriever is lowered over a golf ball, the ring pivots slightly upward to increase the effective size of the opening between it and the curved arms to allow the ball to pass therethrough. When it has, the ring drops down past the outside of the ball, and the retriever is then lifted upwards with the ball engaged by the ring and the curved arms. The body member has an upper curved holding finger which prevents the ball from being dislodged and to which the handle is pivotally connected. This structure provides the advantage that the ball may be released simply by resting the body member on the ground and pulling forward on the handle. This automatically pivots the body portion about the ball and the retaining ring to release the ball. In other embodiments, the retaining ring may be rectangular or triangular with the body portion having arms to match.
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David Howard C.
Walter Erhard P.
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