Patent Application
20240325836
Losing one's golf ball marker has always been a persistent annoyance and game interrupter.
The invention provides a convenient way to store markers that does not rely on wearing additional garments or permanent changes to equipment.
The new ball marker holder affixes to the air hole at the top of any putter grip with a screw-like push-in component. Atop the screw component sits the circular holder base, sized to accommodate most ball markers. At the center of the base is a magnet, slightly elevated above the surrounding base, to which a steel ball marker will attach. A wall extends around the base and upward to surround the ball marker on the magnet. The slight elevation of the magnet produces a bit of space beneath the ball marker when it is attached to the magnet. To remove the ball marker the user presses along any part of the outer edge of the ball marker, exposing the opposite edge of the marker to lift, push, and release the ball marker out of the holder with ease. When not in use, the ball marker snaps smoothly back into place.
This ball marker holder keeps one's ball marker available on the putter when the marker is needed. The ball marker holder does not require permanent modification of the putter. The new ball marker holder does not require wearing additional accessories (like hat clips do). The new ball marker holder holds and securely stores one's ball marker. while making it extremely easy to release and replace.
A golf putter has a putting head. A shaft has a lower end connected to putting head. A hand grip is connected to an upper end of the shaft, and a ball position marker is removably attached to an upper end of the hand grip.
The ball position marker holder is connected to the upper end of the hand grip. The ball position marker is releasably connected to the ball position marker holder.
The hand grip has an air hole in the upper end of the hand grip. The ball position marker holder has a probe connected to one end of the ball position marker holder for holding the ball position marker holder in the air hole in the upper end of the hand grip.
The ball position marker holder has an open upper end configured for holding the ball position marker in the upper end of the ball position marker holder.
A chamber in the ball position marker holder extends inward from the upper open end of the ball position marker holder. The chamber is configured for allowing an edge of the ball position marker to be pressed inward into the chamber, The inward pressing of one edge of the ball position marker extends an opposite edge of the ball position marker for grasping and removing the ball position marker form the ball position marker holder.
A post within a center of the chamber in the ball position marker holder prevents movement of a center of the ball position marker inward in the chamber.
The post and the ball position marker cooperate magnetically. The post includes a magnet, and the ball position marker has a magnetic attractive material.
The ball position marker holder connects to an upper end of a hand grip and a ball position marker releasably connected to the ball position marker holder.
The ball position marker holder has an open end configured for holding the removable ball position marker, and the ball position marker holder has an opposite end configured for attachment to a hand grip on an end of a golf putter shaft.
The opposite closed end of the ball position marker holder has a central probe configured for extending through an air hole in an end of the hand grip. The probe is configured for allowing penetration into the air hole and preventing or resisting removal from the air hole of the hand grip.
The probe is surrounded by a screw-shaped lateral extension configured for twisting the probe into the air hole in the hand grip.
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The invention has been described and shown in a specific example. The invention is set forth in the following claims, which describe the invention.
