Supports – Bag holders – Golf bag
Reexamination Certificate
2001-06-20
2002-05-07
King, Anita (Department: 3632)
Supports
Bag holders
Golf bag
C206S315700
Reexamination Certificate
active
06382572
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an improved supporting frame for a golf bag which is mounted to the upper portion of the rear side of the golf bag. It is symmetric in structure to include two supporting tubes that are controlled by a single pressing button to expand and collect. Each supporting tube is engaged with a pivotal holding seat and a collection mount which has elongated slots so as to permit a rivet secured to each supporting tube to slide back and forth in expansion and collection. Each of two positioning pins slidably engaged with a holding seat respectively is controlled by a control rod that is driven by a pressing button whereby a simple actuation of the pressing button permits the two supporting tubes to extend and collect with ease and speed. Besides, the production cost is effectively reduced.
Referring to
FIGS. 8
,
9
, the conventional supporting frame
81
is secured to the upper portion of the golf bag
80
in cooperation with a securing board
82
, a driving board
83
and a pivot shaft
84
. The bottom of the golf bag has a flat plane
801
and a slant plane
802
. The lower end of the supporting frame
81
is associated with the slant plane
802
. A first recess (not shown) is disposed between the flat plane and the slant plane, and at the outer edge of the slant plane
802
is disposed a second recess
803
. A pair of supporting legs
812
are pivotally secured to a fixing board
811
of the supporting frame
81
, and a resilient branch
813
made of steel is engaged with the upper portion of the supporting legs
812
. The bottom end of the resilient branch
813
has a flat bending area. The two supporting legs
812
are coupled together by way of a resilient bar
814
. The rectangular securing board
82
has a pivot section
821
. The driving board
83
has a pivot hinge
831
at one edge with a hook piece
832
at the opposite edge.
In assembly, the securing board
82
is housed in the first recess and the securing board
82
and the driving board
83
are in pivotal engagement with each other by a shaft pin
84
led through the pivot section
821
and the pivot hinge
831
so that the driving board
83
is pivotal about the shaft pin
84
. The fixing board
811
of the supporting frame
81
is fixed to the upper portion of the golf bag
80
and the bent lower end of the resilient branch
813
is hooked to the hook piece
832
of the driving board
83
.
The expansion and collection of the supporting legs
812
are effected by the driving board
83
disposed at the bottom of the golf bag
80
and the resilient branch
813
that is adjusted to move at one end upwardly or downward to get the supporting legs extended or collected. The driving board
83
is actuated by the weight of the golf bag
80
. The actuation of the branch
813
in cooperation with the driving board
83
can effect the operation of the supporting frame
81
.
However, such a conventional supporting frame
10
has the following disadvantages in operation:
1. The supporting frame
81
is easily out of function as a result of the quality of the resilient branch
813
and the engagement of the driving board
83
with the hook piece
832
.
2. The operation of the supporting frame
81
depends on the elasticity of the resilient bar
814
which is easily out of function as a result of metal fatigue, rendering the supporting legs
812
out of function.
3. The size of the resilient branch
813
must be particularly fit to a golf bag
80
of a specific size, rendering the production cost of the supporting frame
81
.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, the primary object of the present invention is to provide an improved supporting frame for a golf bag which has two supporting tubes controlled to expand and collect by simple and speedy actuation of a pressing button. The pressing button drives two control rods to pivot so as to actuate two positioning pins each having a journal section to slide into or out of a holding seat respectively whereby two collection mounts can be actuated to drive the supporting tubes to expand and collect effectively with ease and precision.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved supporting frame for a golf bag which is equipped with positioning pins, compression springs and torsion springs to drive holding seats to pivot, in combination with rivets each sliding either inwardly or outwardly in elongated insertion slots of two collection mounts so as to make the expansion and collection of supporting tubes in a precise and effective manner.
One further object of the present invention is to provide an improved supporting frame for a golf bag that is produced in a single size to be suit to golf bags of any sizes whereby the production cost can be effectively lowered in practical use.
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patent: 5597144 (1997-01-01), Lee
patent: 5673879 (1997-10-01), Hsieh
patent: 5799786 (1998-09-01), Beck et al.
patent: 5901845 (1999-05-01), Cheng
patent: 6315117 (2001-11-01), Han
King Anita
Nai Hui MFG Enterprise Co., Ltd.
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