Golf cart having shoe cleaning brush attached to wheel

Claim 2

In combinAtion with a golf cart including a ground engageable support wheel having a substantially unobstructed outer side, a body including one generally flat side having elongated stiff bristles supported and projecting endwise outwardly therefrom providing a golf shoe cleaner, and means supporting said brush body from the central portion of said outer side of said wheel for rotation therewith and with said one side of said brush body facing laterally of the center axis of said wheel.

Claim 3

The combination of claim 1 wherein said bristles are tapered toward their free ends.

Claim 4

The combination of claim 1 wherein said brush body includes a second side opposite said one side, and further elongated stiff bristles supported from and projecting endwise outwardly from said second side of said brush body.

Claim 5

The combination of claim 3 wherein the bristles on said one side of said brush body are spaced closer together than the bristles on the second side of said brush body.

Claim 6

The combination of claim 4 wherein said brush body is generally panel-like in configuration.

Claim 7

The combination of claim 5 wherein said bristles are tapered toward their outer free ends.

Claim 8

The combination of claim 1 wherein said wheel includes a central threaded bore opening endwise outwardly of said one side of said wheel, said means supporting said body from said one side of said wheel comprising an edgewise outwardly projecting externally threaded member removably threadedly engaged in said bore and carried by said brush body.

Claim 9

A golf shoe cleaning apparatus comprising a brush body including one side having elongated stiff bristles supported and projecting endwise outwardly therefrom, a support wheel, and means supporting said brush body from the central portion of one side of said wheel for rotation therewith and with said one side of said brush body facing laterally of the center axis of said wheel, said wheel including a central threaded bore opening endwise outwardly of said one side of said wheel, said means supporting said body from said one side of said wheel comprising an edgewise outwardly projecting externally threaded member removably threadedly engaged in said bore and carried by said brush body, said wheel including a central journal sleeve portion extending axially therethrough, said threaded bore comprising a counterbore formed in the corresponding end of said sleeve portion.

Claim 10

A golf shoe cleaning apparatus comprising a brush body including one side having elongated stiff bristles supported and projecting endwise outwardly therefrom, a support wheel, and means supporting said brush body from the central portion of one side of said wheel for rotation therewith and with said one side of said brush body facing laterally of the center axis of said wheel, said wheel including a central threaded bore opening endwise outwardly of said one side of said wheel, said means supporting said body from said one side of said wheel comprising an edgewise outwardly projecting externally threaded member removably threadedly engaged in said bore and carried by said brush body, said wheel including a central journal sleeve portion extending axially therethrough, said threaded bore comprising a counterbore formed in the corresponding end of said sleeve portion.

Claim 11

A golf shoe cleaning apparatus comprising a brush body including one side having elongated stiff bristles supported and projecting endwise outwardly therefrom, a support wheel, and means supporting said brush body from the central portion of one side of said wheel for rotation therewith and with said one side of said brush body facing laterally of the center axis of said wheel, said wheel including a central threaded bore opening endwise outwardly of said one side of said wheel, said means supporting said body from said one side of said wheel comprising an edgewise outwardly projecting externally threaded member removably threadedly engaged in said bore and carried by said brush body, a wheel mounting adapter, said wheel mounting adapter comprising a generally frusto-conical body including a central endwise outwardly projecting internally threaded shank at its minor diameter end portion defining said counterbore, said frusto-conical body having at least one set of circumferentially extending and spaced arcuate slots formed therein, and fastener means secured through said slots and anchored to said one side of said wheel.

Claim 12

A golf shoe cleaning apparatus comprising a brush body including one side having elongated stiff bristles supported and projecting endwise outwardly therefrom, a support wheel, and means supporting said brush body from the central portion of one side of said wheel for rotation therewith and with said one side of said brush body facing laterally of the center axis of said wheel, said wheel including a central threaded bore opening endwise outwardly of said one side of said wheel, said means supporting said body from said one side of said wheel comprising an edgewise outwardly projecting externally threaded member removably threadedly engaged in said bore and carried by said brush body, a wheel mounting adapter, said wheel mounting adapter comprising a generally frusto-conical body including a central endwise outwardly projecting internally threaded shank at its minor diameter end portion defining said counterbore, said frusto-conical body having at least one set of circumferentially extending and spaced arcuate slots formed therein, and fastener means secured through said slots and anchored to said one side of said wheel.

Claim 13

The combination of claim 9 wherein said one side of said wheel is defined by a disc half having a plurality of equally circumferentially spaced apertures formed therein, said fastener means being engaged through said apertures.

Claim 14

The combination of claim 9 wherein said wheel comprises a spoked wheel, said fastener means including portions thereof secured through said slots and engaged with at least some of the spokes on said one side of said wheel.

Claim 15

The combination of claim 9 wherein said wheel includes cast generally radial spokes, the inner surfaces of the major diameter end of said frusto-conical body being notched for seating engagement with said spokes and said spokes having apertures formed therein through which said fastener means are engaged.