Patents by Inventor James L. Sutter

James L. Sutter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6595357
    Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly for a golf club carrying bag includes a plurality of dividers. Some of the dividers extend in intersecting transverse relationships with other of the dividers so as to form a plurality of compartments therebetween for receiving shafts of golf clubs placed in a carrying bag. Also, some dividers are of colors different from and contrasting with colors of other dividers so as to provide contrasting colors about the compartments which improve visibility of compartments to a golfer over a case where all of the dividers are of the same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Great Divider Golf, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Sutter, James W. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20010025802
    Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly for a golf club carrying bag includes a plurality of dividers. Some of the dividers extend in intersecting transverse relationships with other of the dividers so as to form a plurality of compartments therebetween for receiving shafts of golf clubs placed in a carrying bag. Also, some dividers are of colors different from and contrasting with colors of other dividers so as to provide contrasting colors about the compartments which improve visibility of compartments to a golfer over a case where all of the dividers are of the same color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: James L. Sutter, James W. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6076245
    Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly includes divider members having upper and lower longitudinal edges and respective slits and notches defined through the divider members between their upper and lower longitudinal edges for intersecting and interfitting the divider members with and through one another so as to form a plurality of slots for receiving the shafts of golf clubs placed in a carrying bag. The slits are defined through first divider members and the notches are defined through second divider members. The slits in the first divider members have upper and lower ends inwardly spaced from the upper and lower longitudinal edges of the first divider members leaving upper and lower portions of the first divider members extending between the upper and lower longitudinal edges of the first divider members and upper and lower ends of the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Great Divider Golf, Inc.
    Inventor: James L. Sutter
  • Patent number: 5971147
    Abstract: A molded one-piece golf club organizer structure and organizing assembly includes a molded one-piece framework and a golf bag top collar. The framework includes first and second divider members extending in intersecting relationships with one another so as to form compartments between the divider members for receiving shafts of golf clubs placed in the carrying bag. The top collar includes an annular body encircling the framework. Connector tabs are integrally fixed on opposite ends of the first and second divider members. The annular body has a plurality of apertures defined therethrough in spaced apart relation to one another. Each aperture receives a respective one of the connector tabs for securing the framework to the top collar such that the annular body is retained in a wrapped relation about the framework. Each first divider member has a height greater than the height of each second divider member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Great Divider Golf, Inc.
    Inventor: James L. Sutter
  • Patent number: 5871093
    Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly includes divider members having upper and lower longitudinal edges and respective slits and notches defined through the divider members between their upper and lower longitudinal edges for intersecting and interfitting the divider members with and through one another so as to form a plurality of slots for receiving the shafts of golf clubs placed in a carrying bag. The slits are defined through first divider members and the notches are defined through second divider members. The slits in the first divider members have upper and lower ends inwardly spaced from the upper and lower longitudinal edges of the first divider members leaving upper and lower portions of the first divider members extending between the upper and lower longitudinal edges of the first divider members and upper and lower ends of the slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Great Divider Golf, Inc.
    Inventor: James L. Sutter
  • Patent number: 5671843
    Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly includes a plurality of straight members attached at opposite ends to and extending between spaced portions of an open upper end of a carrying bag and a plurality of curved members attached at opposite ends to and extending between spaced portions of the open upper end of the carrying bag. The curved members cross the straight members and together define a plurality of slots for receiving golf clubs in the bag. The straight members are in substantially parallel relation to one another. The curved members are in substantially concentric relation to one another. The assembly may further include a continuous round member attachable to and retrofitable at the open upper end of the carrying bag where the straight and curved members are attached at their opposite ends to and extend between spaced portions of the round member and are not directly attached to the open upper end of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Inventor: James L. Sutter