Patent ID: 6382572
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A supporting frame for a golf bag secured to an upper portion of the golf bag comprising a main frame, two retaining pins, two compression springs, four limiting sleeves, two holding seats, two torsion springs, two shaft pins, two supporting tubes, two rivets, two retaining rivets, a collection mount, a pressing button and two control rods;wherein said main frame structurally symmetric has a pivot receiving recess having a pivot tube defined at the center of a rear side thereof; a receiving chamber is disposed on each side of said receiving recess; each receiving chamber has an opening in communication therewith; a pivot hole is disposed at the upper and lower portion of a front side of said receiving chambers; said pin is cylindrical in structure with a bulge headed stop end at one end and a journal section next to the stop end and a slide groove at the other end and is engaged with one of said compression spring; each said limiting sleeve is a two-staged tube with a through hole defined at the center thereof; said holding seat has a shaft hole at a top end in connection to an ear-shaped block and having a limiting hole with a curved track defined in said limiting hole whose diameter is slightly larger than that of the external diameter of a main section of said retaining pin; said shaft hole is provided with a spring locating groove at each end thereof and a connecting rod extending downwardly from the center of said holding seat has a lateral hole defined at the middle thereof; at the top section of each supporting tube is disposed a first lateral through hole and down at a distance is disposed a second through hole perpendicular to the first through hole; said supporting tube is coupled to said holding seat by a rivet; said collection mount has a retaining section and has an insertion slot disposed on each side wall of said retaining section; said pressing button has a pivot connection in the upper section and a pressing area in a lower section thereof; a laterally extended abutment rib is disposed at a center portion on an inner wall of said pressing area with a pressing recess defined on an outer wall of said pressing area; at the center of each said control rod is disposed a pivot tube; a pry fork extending from said pivot tube; a hook ended abutment plate is located next and approximately perpendicular to the pry fork with a wide angle defined therebetween; each said supporting tube is movably engaged with said insertion slots of said collection mount by a rivet so as to permit said supporting tube to be extended or collected; whereby each said retaining pin is slidably engaged with said limiting hole and said connecting rod is coupled to each said supporting tube by a rivet; said holding seat is resiliently pivoted by said torsion spring; said journal section of each said pin is engaged with said pry fork of said control rod and said abutment plate is in contact with said pressing button so as to permit said control rod to pivot to drive said retaining pin associated with each said compression spring to slide back and forth in said holding seat; said holding seat is pivotally secured to said main frame by a rivet and can be selectively retained in place by said torsion spring in expansion of said supporting tubes; and said supporting tubes can be easily collected by simple actuation of said pressing button which drives said control rods and said pry forks, causing said retaining pins to move in a reverse direction to get said retained holding seats free, permitting said supporting tubes to be collected.