Patent ID: 9089741
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. In a ball-grabbing device for securement with respect to a tubular golf-putter shaft, the device including fingers for grabbing the ball, the improvement comprising: a cap affixable at the longitudinal extremity of a grip end of the putter shaft, such cap having a single central opening therethrough with finger-receiving guide notches spaced therearound; and a movable grabber assembly having (a) a base member shaped to be movably retained within the shaft below the cap and (b) at least three non-destructibly resiliently-deformable strip-like forgers each having a proximal end secured to the base member, an arcuate ball-grabbing portion, and a distal end terminating in a camming member having a substantially-planar ball-engagable face, each finger slidably engaged within one of the guide notches, the movable grabber assembly being slidable with respect to the cap between a non-use position in which the arcuate portions of the fingers are below the cap and contained only by the shaft and a use position in which the arcuate portions of the fingers are outside the shaft and above the cap.