Patent Application
20140367287
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates generally to a golf bag, and more particularly to an innovative one which can reduce the transport space and facilitate disassembly.
2. Description of Related Art
The conventional golf bags are usually assembled in the factory and then transported to the merchants or distributors for sale; however, the fixed volume will take much space for transportation and packaging, but also cause higher freight; moreover, common consumers can only select their preferred or appropriate bags according to individual demands, but cannot assemble by themselves, which is an important factor for higher golf bag cost and sales price.
For this reason, golf bags that can be assembled by merchants and distributors have been developed with smaller packing volume, more transportation capacity and less transportation cost (packaging and shipping by parts, not by finished products). Yet, the support bar connected between the upper frame and base of conventional self-assembly golf bag is designed into a long bar or plug-in type. The length of long bar type support bar is fixed but may also affect the reduction degree of packing volume, the plug-in type support bar can effectively reduce the packing volume, but it is likely to result in loosening and failure due to lack of strength. In fact, most of existing golf bag support bars are represented by abovementioned two types, and recently, a screwed type is designed, but the screwed portion must be made of metals to ensure the robustness with higher fabrication cost.
The main purpose objective of the present invention is to provide a detachable golf bag, of which the support bars are incorporated into a multi-section structure via a coupling device, making it easy to disassemble and reduces the packing volume and transportation cost.
To this end, the present invention provides a detachable golf bag, which comprising: an upper frame, a base, several support bars and a rack; each support bar contains a first bar body, a second bar body and a coupling device; the coupling device contains a first coupling block, a second coupling block and an moveable sleeve; of which the first and second coupling blocks are separately set at one end of the first and second bar bodies, and the moveable sleeve is movably set on the outer side of the second bar body and the second coupling block; a first clamping part is set at one end of the first coupling block, and a second clamping part set at one end of the moveable sleeve.
The present invention will be more readily understood with reference to the accompanying drawings:
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The support bar 16, plugged detachably in the socket 21 between the upper frame 12 and base 14; it comprises of a first bar body 22, a second bar body 24 and a coupling device 26; the coupling device 26 contains a first coupling block 28, a second coupling block 30 and an moveable sleeve 32; the first and second coupling blocks 28, 30 are sleeve-shaped with one open end, and set securely at ends of the first and second bar bodies 22, 24; a first abutment portion 34 and a second abutment portion 36 are separately set at corresponding ends of the first and second coupling blocks 28, 30; the first abutment portion 34 is of a convex surface and the second abutment portion 36 is of a concave surface mated with the first abutment portion 34; convex first clamping parts 38 are separately set at two ends of the first coupling block 28 correspondingly to the first bar body 22; the moveable sleeve 32 is of a tubular shape with two open ends, and movably set on the outer side of the second bar body 24 and the second coupling block 30; and second clamping parts 40 are separately set at two ends correspondingly to the second coupling block 30; the second clamping part contains a guide slot 42, a caulking groove 44 and a clamping block 46; the guide slot 42 is set into the inner wall at one end of the moveable sleeve 32 and extended to the other end; the caulking groove 44 is set through the moveable sleeve 32 to the guide slot 42, and the clamping block 46 is set convexly at one side of the inner wall of the caulking groove 44.
Moreover, the rack 18 comprises of two support rods 48 pivoted to the upper frame 12, an elastic frame 50 connected with two metal wires, and one end is movably connected with two support rods 48, a plug-in unit 52, set at the other end of the elastic frame 50 and detachably set in a slot 54 set at one side of the base 14.
With this design, the golf bag 10 of the present invention is used in the same way as the conventional one; and its features and efficacy are as follow:
Based on the detachable structure of support bars 16, rack 18, upper frame 12 and base 14, the golf bag 10 has efficacy of reducing the packing volume and the transport cost (not assembled into finished products).
Particularly when it is intended for assembly of the support bars 16, the first and second bar bodies 22, 24 are separately inserted into the socket 12 between the upper frame 12 and base 14, then the first and second abutment portions 34, 36 of the first and second coupling blocks 28, 30 are abutted as shown in
The support bars of the golf bag of the present invention are incorporated into a multi-section structure via a coupling device, so it has efficacy of reducing the packing volume and transport cost of the golf bag, but also enables easy and quick assembly; besides, the abutting of the first and second coupling blocks can be fixed by the moveable sleeve with robust state; therefore, there is need to use metal material for the first and second coupling blocks and the moveable sleeve. Compared to the conventional multi-section or screwed support bars, the present invention has obvious efficacy.
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| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102211062 | Jun 2013 | TW | national |
