Patent ID: 6857974
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A repair tool for repairing a depression formed by a golf ball in a putting green on a golf course, which repair tool comprising a grip part having an lower grip piece and an upper grip piece mounted expandably in a vertical direction through spring bodies, a plurality of split projecting pieces ramified downward through oblong split grooves from a basal terminal part of a rod vertically disposed downward from the lower grip piece of the grip part, the plurality of split projecting pieces being so disposed as to encompass an outer periphery of the depression in the putting green, lower terminal sides of the split projecting pieces being so adapted as to serve as inserting claw parts capable of being inserted into a ground surface, tapered parts formed of outer wall sides of the split projecting pieces above positions of the inserting claw parts and adapted to impart a gradual radial expansion to inclined surfaces thereof in a direction of decreasing height, the split projecting pieces being endowed with elasticity such that the inserting claw parts on the lower terminal sides thereof are deformed inward when an external depressing force is applied to the tapered parts and they are allowed to resume their former shape when the depressing force is released, an annular slide engaging member formed at a lower terminal of a connecting rod vertically disposed downward from the upper grip piece of the grip part and adapted to contact uniformly outer sides of the tapered parts and produce a free vertical motion, and the slide engaging member being vertically moved relative to the tapered parts and the inserting claw parts being moved toward and away from a central part of the depression in the putting green by pressing the lower grip piece and the upper grip piece toward each other in spite of pressure of the spring bodies.