Patent Application
20250148943
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The disclosure relates to flag assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new flag assembly for advertising and promotional purposes. A flag assembly enabling advertising and promotion of businesses, products, organizations, causes, or the like, which is readily attachable to a golf cart would be useful for many golfers.
The prior art relates to flag assemblies, which may include flags attachable to golf carts to indicate wind direction. Prior art flag assemblies may comprise clips to which rotatable bases are attached for receiving flagstaff. What is lacking in the prior art is flag attachable to a golf cart using a clamp having staff receivers oriented at 90° so the clamp can be attached to either a horizontal rod or a vertical rod of the golf cart.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a clamp, a staff, and a flag. The clamp comprises a pair of jaws and is configured to be opened to receive a rod of a canopy of a golf cart and to be closed such that the jaws secure the clamp to the rod. A socket having an opening is attached to the clamp so that the opening faces upwardly upon the clamp being secured to the rod. The staff has an upper end and a lower end, with the lower end being complimentary to and selectively insertable into the socket so that the staff is removably attached to the socket and extends substantially vertically relative to a ground surface upon which the golf cart is positioned. The flag comprises a panel, which has a vertical edge, and a sleeve, which is attached to the panel and which extends along the vertical edge. The staff is insertable into the sleeve.
Another embodiment of the disclosure includes a golf cart mounted flag system, which comprises a golf cart and golf cart mountable flag assembly, as described in the disclosure above. A clamp of the golf cart mountable flag assembly is attached to a rod of a canopy of the golf cart so that a staff of the golf cart mountable flag assembly extends substantially vertically relative to a ground surface upon which the golf cart is positioned.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The grips 30 of a pair of grips 30 are attached singly to the pair of jaws 18 and are configured to frictionally engage the rod 20 upon closing of the jaws 18. The grips 30 comprise rubber, silicone, elastomer, or the like.
A socket 32 having an opening 34 is attached to the clamp 12 so that the opening 34 faces upwardly upon the clamp 12 being secured to the rod 20. As is shown in
The staff 14 has an upper end 40 and a lower end 42, with the lower end 42 being complimentary to and selectively insertable into the socket 32 so that the staff 14 is removably attached to the socket 32 and extends substantially vertically relative to a ground surface upon which the golf cart 24 is positioned. The staff 14 is externally threaded adjacent to the upper end 40 and the lower end 42. The opening 34 is internally threaded so that the lower end 42 of the staff 14 is threadedly insertable into the socket 32.
The flag 16 comprises a panel 44, which has a vertical edge 46, and a sleeve 48, which is attached to the panel 44 and which extends along the vertical edge 46. The staff 14 is insertable into the sleeve 48 to couple the flag 16 to the staff 14. Indicia 50 are attached to the panel 44 to advertise and promote businesses, products, organizations, causes, or the like. As is shown in the figures, the panel 44 may be rectangular. The present invention also anticipates the panel 44 being triangular, semicircular, or the like.
The golf cart mountable flag assembly 10 also includes a cap 52, which is removably attachable to the upper end 40 of the staff 14 to secure the flag 16 to the staff 14. Typically, the cap 52 is internally threaded and thus threadedly attachable to the upper end 40 of the staff 14.
The panel 44 typically will be flexible, although the present invention also anticipates the panel 44 being rigid or semirigid and thus maintaining a substantially planar configuration. The sleeve 48 may be rotatable around the staff 14 so that the panel 44 is biased to a position parallel to a breeze. The present invention also anticipates the sleeve 48 not being rotatable about the staff 14 so that the panel 44 is fixed relative to the staff 14 and the canopy 22, regardless of a direction of a breeze, as may be desired when using a panel 44 that is rigid or semirigid and which does not require a breeze for unfurling.
The present invention also includes a golf cart mounted flag system 54, which comprises a golf cart 24 and golf cart mountable flag assembly 10, as described in the specification above. A clamp 12 of the golf cart mountable flag assembly 10 is attached to a rod 20 of a canopy 22 of the golf cart 24 so that a staff 14 of the golf cart mountable flag assembly 10 extends substantially vertically relative to a ground surface upon which the golf cart 24 is positioned.
In use, the clamp 12 is attached to a rod 20 of a canopy 22 of a golf cart 24. The staff 14 then typically is inserted into the sleeve 48 by its upper end 40 and into the socket 32 by its lower end 42, thereby mounting the flag 16 to the golf cart 24 for display.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
