Patent ID: 7062873
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: A63B,G09F

Abstract:
1. A self-supporting golf marking flag for direct attachment to an upright movable pole for marking holes on golf course greens, the upright pole having an upwardly extending pin member having a reduced thickness smaller than the thickness of the upright pole forming a peripheral shoulder at the juncture of the extended pin and the upper end of the upright pole, the flag adapted to be self-supporting whole rotatably supported on the upright pole, the golf marking flag comprising: a flag with an attachment side for direct rotatable attachment to the upright pole, the attachment side having a hemmed linear sleeve adapted to loosely slip over the upright pole, the hemmed sleeve having an upper flexible extension tab with an opening adapted to loosely engage the narrowed extension pin on top of the upright pole, the flexible extension tab rotatably supported by the peripheral shoulder of the upper upright pole, while the linear sleeve is rotatably attached to the upright pole; the golf marking flag rotatably attached to the upright pole by slipping the flag sleeve over the upright pole, the flexible tab loosely rotatably engaging the extending pin for vertically supporting the flag on the upright pole while the sleeve loosely rotatably engages the upright pole; where the upright pole and upwardly extending pin are circular, where the tab opening is larger than the diameter of the extending pin but smaller than the diameter of the upright pole to provide rotatable support of the marking flag on the upright pole, and a capping member secured to the top of the upwardly extending pin spaced upwardly from the peripheral shoulder of the upright pole to prevent dislodgment of the flexible tab from the extension pin while permitting loose rotation of the flexible tab about the extension pin; where the flag sleeve contains a removable tubular insert with an diameter larger than the upright pole diameter to facilitate rotation of the marking flag about the upright pole; and where the bottom end of the linear sleeve is partially closed to provide a narrowed opening in the bottom end of the sleeve, the tubular insert having an outside diameter larger than the narrowed opening in the sleeve to prevent the tubular insert from falling our of the linear sleeve.