Golf club head cleaner attached to you footwear

Abstract

The invention is a golf club head cleaner that is able to remove debris from golf club heads of both irons and woods. The golf club head cleaner is strapped around footwear. A cleaning unit removes debris from golf club heads. A connecting unit connects the strap to the cleaning unit. To remove debris the golf club head is moved across the cleaning unit, which is attached to the golfer's footwear by a strap.

Description

REFERENCES

U.S. Patent Documents

• U.S. Pat. No. 388,913 January, 1998 Williams, et al.
• U.S. Pat. No. 328,117 July, 1992 Haugom
• U.S. Pat. No. 4,872,232 October, 1989 Stiasny
• U.S. Pat. No. 4,965,906 October, 1990 Mauro
• U.S. Pat. No. 366,565 January, 1996 Harper
• U.S. Pat. No. 5,742,965 April, 1998 Leask
• U.S. Pat. No. 5,787,539 August, 1998 Nussbaum
• U.S. Pat. No. 7,356,868 April, 2008 Herrmann
• U.S. Pat. No. 6,898,817 May, 2005 Jackson

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Golf can be a messy and dirty sport and often incurs soiling golf club heads particularly when playing in wet and muddy conditions. In such untoward conditions clumps of dirt, grass, sand or other debris left on the golf club head can effect the speed, spin, direction or otherwise negatively impact of the golf ball on the next shot.

Golfers and caddies traditionally used a cloth to clean the golf club head. This method has many disadvantages, including ready contamination of the clothes, golf carts, golf clubs and near by persons.

There are a number of golf club head cleaning systems. These systems typically include devices with moving parts and cleaning liquids. (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,872,232; 4,734,952; 3,872,534; 4,464,072; 4,472,851) Among the disadvantages and drawbacks of devices and systems such as these include: the need to carry often bulky and heavy cleaning kits, wasting time on the golf course to stop, set up and implement a cleaning process, negative impact on golf strokes and scores as the debris builds up on the clubs, release of non-biodegradable cleaning solutions on the typically pristine fairways and greens of the golf course.

Thus, the prior art has neglected to provide a facile environmentally clean and readily accessible system for cleaning golf clubs on the greens and fairways that maximizes the golfer's performance

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The invention is a portable golf club head cleaner that is attached to footwear as shown in FIG. 2 by a strap FIG. 1 item 5. Referring to FIG. 1, attached to the strap, item 5, is a connecting unit, item 3, curved to fit comfortably on the footwear, as shown in FIG. 2, which can be reversed for left-handed and right-handed golfers.

The connecting unit, FIG. 1 item 3, is designed for the cleaning unit, FIG. 1 item, to be attached at an angle fitting the curvature of both golf club heads of irons and woods.

The golfer and caddie holds the golf club by the shaft and runs the head of the golf club over the cleaning unit to dislodge dirt, mud, grass, sand and other debris. This provides the advantage of being able to quickly clean the golf club head without having to get dirty or the need for mechanical devises.

The preferred embodiment of the invention as described above provides just one potential prototype. However, multiple other embodiments are contemplated herein. These include but are not limited to, a system wherein a cleaning unit comprises a rough surface, bristles, cloth, natural brush, synthetic brush and carpet type material. These include but are not limited to, a system wherein a strap comprises of Velcro, leather, plastic material and elastics. These include but are not limited to, a system wherein a connecting unit comprises of plastic material, metal, cloth and wood.

Claims

1. A system for cleaning a golf club head comprising (a) strap attaching to footwear (b) a cleaning unit for eliminating debris from the golf club head (c) a connecting unit for mounting the strap and the cleaning unit to the footwear.

2. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the strap comprises of Velcro for attaching to the footwear.

3. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the strap comprises of leather for attaching to the footwear.

4. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the strap comprises of a plastics material for attaching to the footwear.

5. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the strap comprises of elastics for attaching to the footwear

6. A system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the cleaning unit comprises a synthetic brush for removing debris from the golf club head.

7. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the cleaning unit comprises a natural material brush for removing debris from the golf club head.

8. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the cleaning unit comprises cloth for removing debris from the golf club head.

9. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the cleaning unit comprises carpet material for removing debris from the golf club head.

10. A system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the connecting unit for mounting the strap and the brush to footwear comprises of a plastic material.

11. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the connecting unit for mounting the strap and the brush to footwear comprises of metal.

12. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the connecting unit for mounting the strap and the brush to footwear comprises of cloth.

13. The system for cleaning golf club heads wherein the connecting unit for mounting the strap and the brush to footwear comprises of wood.