Patent Application Publishes for an Invention that We Have All Touched at the Pro Shop, but Never Considered Purchasing
Recently an interesting patent application published directed to a device that virtually every golfer has touched in the pro shop, yet would never consider purchasing. What could it be?
The application published as US Pub. No. 20070158283 titled “Supporting Device for Exhibiting Golf Club.” You should recognize the device from this figure:
Of course, those nifty club hangers that always rotate the clubs to the correct position. The application describes the invention as:
A supporting device for exhibiting golf clubs enabling the easy dismounting and storing of the golf clubs from and onto the supporting device for exhibition when users actually dismount the golf clubs from the supporting device for exhibition, hold them by hands, and perform test swing which is formed by improving a supporting device comprising a plurality of hook members for hooking the heads of golf clubs thereto and a connection member connecting the hook members to each other, wherein when the clubs are hooked to the hook members, they are always arranged in a specified direction at all times, and the supporting device for exhibition can be minimized in size and manufactured at low cost. The hook members are so formed that the inlets of guide parts suspending the shafts of the clubs are opened in the front direction so that the clubs can be suspended therefrom from the front direction of the supporting device for exhibition. Also, the connection parts between the heads and the shafts of the clubs can be observed from the front direction and so as to support the heads and the shafts so that, when the clubs are suspended from the hook members, the clubs do not come out of the opening parts of the guide parts.
This shows that even the golf equipment display market must be highly competitive.
David Dawsey – The Golf Products Attorney