Patent Publication Number: US-2002010956-A1

Title: Golfing glove improvement II

Description:
[0001] Applicant claims priority of Provisional Ser. No. 60/218556, filed Jul. 17, 2000.  
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
       [0002] This invention relates in general to a glove and in particular to a glove used in the game of golf.  
       DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART  
       [0003] Athletic gloves are used in a great variety of sports to provide protection of the user&#39;s hands, increase control of a handle, to retain warmth and for many other reasons. An aquatic webbed glove is disclosed in the design patent Des. 363,153 to Brasseur to assist a swimmer.  
       [0004] U.S. Pat. No. 3,931,647 to Dien discloses the thumb of a golf glove which is provided with a wrapped, adjustable, elongated member for confining relative thumb and thumb-stall movement.  
       [0005] Another golf glove, U.S. Pat. No. 4,183,100 to DeMarco, discloses a glove with a friction pad used to cover the user&#39;s palm.  
       [0006] U.S. Pat. No. 4,519,097 to Chappell, Jr. et al discloses a hook and loop fastener used to fit the hand of various size players.  
       [0007] U.S. Pat. No. 5,367,712 to Smith et al describes an adjustment mechanism attached to one or more adjusting strips via a side adjusting cable element.  
       [0008] U.S. Pat. No. 5,435,008 to Shane discloses an athletic hand glove that may be moved between a collapsible glove pocket position to grab a playing stick, and a deployed position for catching a propelled object.  
       [0009] U.S. Pat. No. 5,459,883 to Garceau-Verbeck discloses a golf glove with restraining loops secured to the finger end and with an anchor strap at the opposite end adapted to encircle a user&#39;s wrist.  
       [0010] In the present invention a golf glove has a storage pouch specifically designed to hold golf tees. An adjusting mechanism is provided attached to one or more adjustable flaps that go over the storage pouch . Three or more golf tees can be stored in the pouch at one time, all as will be detailed in the specification that follows hereafter.  
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
       [0011] This invention relates to a golf glove with a golf tee storage pouch and an adjustable flap to cover the pouch.  
       [0012] It is the primary object of the present invention to provide for an improved golf glove tee storage pouch.  
       [0013] Another object is to provide for such a pouch in which at least three golf tees are retained in the pouch by a covering flap.  
       [0014] These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent to readers from a consideration of the ensuing description and the accompanying drawings. 
     
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
     [0015]FIG. 1 is a top view of a golf glove with three golf tees retained in a flap covered pouch.  
     [0016]FIG. 2 is a top view of a glove glove with the flap in an opened position.  
     [0017]FIG. 3 is a cross section view taken along line A-A of FIG. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows showing the alignment of the three golf tees.  
     [0018]FIG. 4 is a view of the top portion of the golf glove in which the tees are retained beneath the opened flap by elastic engaging members. 
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT  
     [0019]FIG. 1 is a top view of a golf glove  1  with three golf tees  3  retained in a pouch  5  which has a flap  19  covering the pouch. The glove is generally conventional in design with four finger stalls  7 , and a thumb stall  9 . Small ventilating holes  11  may extend the length of the thumb and finger stalls. The glove may be made of naturally occurring material, like leather, or any artificial material, or a combination of these materials. The wrist portion  13  of the glove has a hand receiving opening  15  and may have elastic members  17  sewn, or other attached to the fabric of the glove.  
     [0020] On the back surface of the glove  18 , i.e. the side opposite the palm, just below the wrist  12  is the pouch  5  used to store the tees  3 . This pouch is attached to the back of the glove by any conventional means such as, but not limited to, sewing, bonding or the like. If desired the pouch can be made unitary with the back surface  18 . Covering this surface pouch is the flap  19 . Flap  19  is openable on three sides and attached to the glove at a fourth side  21 . Facing hook and loop fasteners may be used on one or more of the openable sides to insure they stay closed. If desired a separate loop, under the flap  19 , may be used for each tee to assist in retaining and separating the individual tees. It is important to note that the tee retaining pouch is on the rear side of the glove so as not to interfere with the golfer grasping the golf club with the palm side.  
     [0021]FIG. 2 is a top view of a golf glove  1  with the retained golf tees  3  shown and the covering flap  19  opened to reveal the stored tees in the pouch  5 . The three aligned golf tees have their enlarged heads  25 , on which a golf ball is seated, facing towards the finger stalls  7  while their ground piercing ends  27  are nearer the wrist opening  15 . Small elastic retaining members  29  fixed to the surface of the pouch  5  may engage the tees to prevent them from falling out of the pouch when the flap  19  is in an opened position, as shown. These same retaining members  29  may serve as adjustment members to change the amount of tension on the flap by encircling the tees with them. After taking one of the tees from the pouch and striking the ball, it may be returned to the pouch and stored therein whether in good condition or in a broken condition. By retaining all tees used, litter is prevented on the golf course. Since many tees are made of non-perishable materials, like plastic, considerable litter can be avoided by taking away all used tees. Having the tees conventionally available for use on one&#39;s hand rather than in a golf bag pocket speeds up play on the golf course.  
     [0022] It should be clear that the pouch and the tees retained in the pouch can be oriented at different orientations from those shown. The tee heads  25  can face in an opposite direction or at ninety degrees to the right or left (see FIG. 4), as desired by changing the orientation of the pouch on the rear of the glove and changing the direction of the covering flap  19  and how it is fixed at side  21  to the glove.  
     [0023]FIG. 3 is a cross section view taken along line A-A of FIG. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows and showing the alignment of three golf tees  3 . The flap  19  is shown covering the three tees with the back surface of glove  18  on the opposite side. Hook and loops fasteners  31  may be used to fasten the surfaces  18  and  19  together to form a retaining pouch  5  which keeps the tees in place when closed. These two fastener surfaces extend over much of the facing surfaces of the flap and pouch from the left opening portion to the right side  21  where the flap is joined to the glove back surface  18 . Additional tee retaining elastic members or loops, not shown, may also be used to further assist in retaining the tees to the back side of the glove when the flap  19  is in an opened position as in FIG. 2.  
     [0024]FIG. 4 is a view of the top portion of the golf glove in which the glove tees  3  are retained side wise. In this view the opened flap  19  has the elastic engaging members  29  and small end pockets  33  integral with the pouch  5 . Only the open top portion  15  of the glove is shown without the lower finger or thumb stalls. The covering flap  19  is opened to reveal the internal tee retaining elastic member  29  and their associated pockets  33 . Normally one pocket is associated with each tee and engages the ground engaging pointed tee end. In FIG. 4, the pocket is oriented perpendicular to those shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. As before, mating hook and loop surfaces  31  are on both the flap  19  and the pouch surface.  
     [0025] Normally, three tees can be retained on the glove with the present invention. However, more or less may be used as desired. For example, if four tees were to be retained, then the dimensions of the flap and the interrelated pouch would be selected to accommodate the four aligned tees.