Patent Application
20240268454
Golfers often enjoy having a fine smoke while playing golf. However, they find it difficult to find a place to put a smoking article, such as, cigar or cigarette, when they are about to take a shot. Placing the smoking article on the ground may burn the grass, while placing the smoking article on a surface of a golf cart may leave burns and unwanted ashes. Moreover, if the cigarette/cigar is placed in the grass, the cigar/cigarette may get contaminated due to contact with fertilizers and pesticides.
Examples of existing approaches to address these problems include a cigar or cigarette holder disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,234,179 (Alcaraz) that inserts into the spare-tee-holding-holes found in the plastic molded dashboards of most golf carts. It has a tapered-shaped-segment that is pushed into the spare-tee-holding-holes until it is securely held. At a variable angle from said tapered end is a smoking article holding segment that is designed so as to hold different sized smoking articles.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2006/0070634 (Brunkow) discloses a smoking article holder for cigars or cigarettes and the like that includes an elongate curved tray member for placement of the smoking article therein, and a snap fastener socket member to enable the holder to be snapped to a corresponding snap fastener stud, such as on a golf bag or the like.
In addition, U.S. Pat. No. 5,588,448 (Photakis) discloses a smoking article holder to be used with both a golf tee having a head portion, and with a smoking article, such as a cigar. The smoking article holder has a generally oblong upper member with an elongated, concave upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface is adapted for receiving at least a part of the smoking article. The holder also has a lower member which depends from the lower surface of the upper member, intermediate its length. The lower member is adapted to receive at least a part of the head portion of the golf tee.
Furthermore, U.S. Pat. No. 8,439,768 (Shah) discloses a golf tool that comprises a body having an upper portion and a lower portion, an outwardly facing surface and an inwardly facing surface, at least first and second prongs depending from the body for repairing a golf ball pitch-mark, an s-shaped serpentine structure extending from the upper portion of the body, the serpentine structure having a first end connected with and generally in vertical alignment with the body and a second end connected to a multi-purpose holder, the second end being offset from the body, the serpentine structure having a segment opposite the body defining a clip for clipping the golf tool to a golf bag, the multi-purpose holder having a shaft holder which is generally U-shaped and vertical in orientation, the multi-purpose holder separated from the body by the s-shaped serpentine structure, a channel having an axis which is generally horizontal and transverse to the shaft holder, wherein the golf tool is capable of a first position clipped to the golf bag and a golf shaft held in vertical orientation with the shaft holder, and a second position wherein the at least first and second prongs are positioned in the ground and a smoking article or golf club shaft is positioned in the channel to elevate from the ground.
Accordingly, there is room in the art for improved holding assemblies for holding at least one smoking article while playing golf.
To address the foregoing problems, in whole or in part, and/or other problems that may have been observed by persons skilled in the art, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods as described by way of example as set forth below.
A holding assembly for holding at least one smoking article while playing golf is disclosed, comprising:
In some embodiments, the stand comprises a pin structure configured to be inserted into the ground to enable a positioning of the holder on the ground.
In some embodiments, the engagement structure comprises at least one magnet configured to magnetically couple the retainer with the golf cart.
In some embodiments, the stand is positioned inside a flange structure configured to extend inside the housing to form an assembly of the holder with the retainer configured to secure the holder within the housing.
In some embodiments, the body comprises a spherical shape with the first elongated hole being arranged substantially centrally to the body with a central axis being horizontally oriented.
In some embodiments, the notch is arranged at a top end of the holder and extends in a horizontal direction.
Additional features of the invention will be or will become apparent to one with skill in the art upon examination of the following figures and detailed description. It is intended that all such additional features and advantages be included within this description, be within the scope of the invention, and be protected by the accompanying claims.
Having thus described the subject matter of the present invention in general terms, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, which are not necessarily drawn to scale.
The subject matter of the present invention now will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which some, but not all embodiments of the subject matter of the present invention are shown. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout. The subject matter of the present invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. Indeed, many modifications and other embodiments of the subject matter of the present invention set forth herein will come to mind to one skilled in the art to which the subject matter of the present invention pertains having the benefit of the teachings presented in the foregoing descriptions and the associated drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the subject matter of the present invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed and that modifications and other embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.
A holding assembly for holding at least one smoking article while playing golf is disclosed, comprising:
In some embodiments, the stand comprises a pin structure configured to be inserted into the ground to enable a positioning of the holder on the ground.
In some embodiments, the engagement structure comprises at least one magnet configured to magnetically couple the retainer with the golf cart.
In some embodiments, the stand is positioned inside a flange structure configured to extend inside the housing to form an assembly of the holder with the retainer configured to secure the holder within the housing.
In some embodiments, the body comprises a spherical shape with the first elongated hole being arranged substantially centrally to the body with a central axis being horizontally oriented.
In some embodiments, the notch is arranged at a top end of the holder and extends in a horizontal direction.
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The stand 112 extends downwardly and outwardly from the body 110 from a location diametrically opposite to the notch 126 and includes a pin structure 140 having a tip portion 142 arranged at the bottom end 108 of the holder 102, and a shank portion 144 extending from the tip portion 142 towards the top end 106 of the holder 102. Accordingly, the pin structure 140 is a vertically oriented structure and extends along a central vertical axis of the body 110. The tip portion 142 is a tapered body to enable an insertion of the pin structure 140 inside the ground 300 to enable a standing of the holder 102 on the ground 300. Further, to enable a secure engagement of the stand 112 with the retainer 104, the holder 102 may include a flange structure 150 arranged between the shank portion 144 (i.e., the pin structure 140) and the body 110. The flange structure 150 is shown to include a rectangular shape, however, it may be appreciated that the flange structure 150 may include any other suitable shape, such as, but not limited to, a circular shape, a square shape, a trapezoidal shape, or any other shape known in the art.
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The advantages of the holding assembly 100 is now described. The holder 102 of the holding assembly 100 holds the cigar/cigarette at a place, when the user indulges in some other activity, for example, taking a shot while playing golf. The holding assembly 100 can hold two cigar/cigarette simultaneously, one in the notch 126 of the holder 102 and other in the through-hole 120. The retainer 104 enables the retention or engagement of the holder 102 with the golf cart 400 in addition to the surface 300, thereby facilitating the use of the holder 102 for positioning smoking articles 200, 202 at multiple locations. The magnets 184 accommodated inside the protrusion 180 facilitates removable coupling of the holding assembly 100 with any metal surface, for example, the golf cart 400.
Following long-standing patent law convention, the terms “a,” “an,” and “the” refer to “one or more” when used in this application, including the claims. Thus, for example, reference to “a subject” includes a plurality of subjects, unless the context clearly is to the contrary (e.g., a plurality of subjects), and so forth.
Throughout this specification and the claims, the terms “comprise,” “comprises,” and “comprising” are used in a non-exclusive sense, except where the context requires otherwise. Likewise, the term “include” and its grammatical variants are intended to be non-limiting, such that recitation of items in a list is not to the exclusion of other like items that can be substituted or added to the listed items.
For the purposes of this specification and appended claims, unless otherwise indicated, all numbers expressing amounts, sizes, dimensions, proportions, shapes, formulations, parameters, percentages, quantities, characteristics, and other numerical values used in the specification and claims, are to be understood as being modified in all instances by the term “about” even though the term “about” may not expressly appear with the value, amount or range. Accordingly, unless indicated to the contrary, the numerical parameters set forth in the following specification and attached claims are not and need not be exact, but may be approximate and/or larger or smaller as desired, reflecting tolerances, conversion factors, rounding off, measurement error and the like, and other factors known to those of skill in the art depending on the desired properties sought to be obtained by the subject matter of the present invention. For example, the term “about,” when referring to a value can be meant to encompass variations of, in some embodiments ±100%, in some embodiments ±50%, in some embodiments ±20%, in some embodiments ±10%, in some embodiments ±5%, in some embodiments ±1%, in some embodiments ±0.5%, and in some embodiments ±0.1% from the specified amount, as such variations are appropriate to perform the disclosed methods or employ the disclosed compositions.
Further, the term “about” when used in connection with one or more numbers or numerical ranges, should be understood to refer to all such numbers, including all numbers in a range and modifies that range by extending the boundaries above and below the numerical values set forth. The recitation of numerical ranges by endpoints includes all numbers, e.g., whole integers, including fractions thereof, subsumed within that range (for example, the recitation of 1 to 5 includes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, as well as fractions thereof, e.g., 1.5, 2.25, 3.75, 4.1, and the like) and any range within that range.
Although the foregoing subject matter has been described in some detail by way of illustration and example for purposes of clarity of understanding, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that certain changes and modifications can be practiced within the scope of the appended claims.
