US1703540A - Golf bag - Google Patents

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Peb. 26, 1929.

GOLF BAG Filed March 18, .1927

Patented Feb. v.'26, 1929.

UNITED STA TES PATENT ori-ucla.v i

GEORGE L. PIERCE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T vA. G. SPALDING @c BROS., v

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 0Fl NEW JERSEY.

The pre GOLF BAG.

sent invention relates in general to golf bags, particularly thelight bags of the so-called Sunday type, and it is proposed to provide an improved bag wherein the ball pocket is attached to the strap of the bag and the inconvenience and undesirability of attaching it to the side of the bag are over*- come. Obviously, the invention may be applied to many forms of bags and similar arti-- cles although it will be described infconnection with There is golf bags. no specific this invention is designed tov be used and it is found to Although be highly practical on all forms. adapted for use with anybag, it

is particularly useful and economical vonk a bag of th knitted cylindrical stocking with 'a suitable e type lcomprising-.a continuously base and no stays.y In manufacturing bags, considerable diiliculty is encountered inatta'ching the ball pocket to the side wall of the bag, a to attach i nd the present invention proposes t directly .to the'shoulder strap betere the latter is secured to the bag, whereby the bag can becompleted without the necessity of attaching the ball pocket thereto. It

is quite obvious that the pocket could be re# movably attached to the strap, as by snaps, rings or other suitable means, in which case the bag and strap could be first made and the pocket att Reference will now be hadto the accoinv ached later.

' panying drawings forming a part hereof,

wherein z Figure 1 is akview, 1

bagof the proposed form showing the ball pocket att ached to the strap.

Figure 2 1s a section taken on line 2-2 of a bau. y

showing thebellows type of ball 3 is a section through (the pocket', ts configuration while containing form of bag upon which -forin Aindividual bags.

`g and securing means h asshown in Figure claim.

n'perspective, yof the kncr ,`.they may be manufactured withy great -fac1l1ty since a continuous stocking is available, suitable lengths of which are cut olf to It isfextremely difficult to sew the ball pocket to the'bag, since it is made in. a cylindrical form. Lengths of the stockingV are finished by applying the l f bottom I) and top rim c.

A poeketd, formed as indicated in Figure 2 is sewedto the lower end of the strap e as n indicated at fin Figure 2. `This pocket may be of any` form and is provided with a flap 1. f The strap is sewed tothe bag inthe usual manner as` at 'z' and the ball pocket interferes, in no way, with the functiony of thestrap. Figure 3 illustrates a ball carried in thepocket. v

It is obvious that the specic design of the bag may be altered and the relation of parts changed without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appendedl lWhat I claim is: v I

In a golf bag formed' of a seamless one piece bag portion anda strap vsecured thereto, `a strip of material attached to the strap at its side and forming with the strap a bellowsed ball pocket. .n j Y 80 i -This specification signed this 15th day of March A. D. 1927.

GEORGE L. PIERCE.

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