Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim
316 words
For putting practice by a golfer, a portable putting aid designed and adapted for use indoors atop a carpet-covered surface and outdoors on a putting green comprising, in combination: a. a first guide member elongated and rectangular in plan, having a pair of spaced, parallel planar surfaces, a longitudinal straight-edge, and transverse left and right marginal endds; b. a second guide member arranged in a common plane with the first guide member, the second guide member being substantially U-shaped in plan and provided with spaced, parallel, planar surfaces, left and right transverse marginal edges, and a longitudinal straight-edge arranged in spaced opposed, parallel relationship with respect to the straight-edge of the first guide member, the second guide member further being provided with a recess arranged spaced from the coextensive with the straight-edges for accommodating the shoes of feet of user of the putting aid; c. assembling and coordinating means including a rigid strap member connected to the first and second guide members along one corresponding transverse marginal edge thereOf for separably uniting and maintaining the guide members in coacting relationship and providing a uniform channel-like guideway between the straight-edges, the guideway arranged for accommodating a golf ball in a manually set position and the head of a putter in ready-to-putt relationship, the arrangement of the strap member closing the guideway at one end thereof and permitting the guideway to be unobstructedly open at its opposite, ball discharging end; d. limit stop means for permitting a user to observe and determine the distance between the ball and putter head and serving to plan and gauge the back-stroke required to cause the ball to travel a predetermined distance when putted; and e. retaining means provided on both planar surfaces of the first and second guide members for selectively mounting the limit stop means in a desired position on a selected pair of planar surfaces of the guide members.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
316 words
For putting practice by a golfer, a portable putting aid designed and adapted for use indoors atop a carpet-covered surface and outdoors on a putting green comprising, in combination: a. a first guide member elongated and rectangular in plan, having a pair of spaced, parallel planar surfaces, a longitudinal straight-edge, and transverse left and right marginal endds; b. a second guide member arranged in a common plane with the first guide member, the second guide member being substantially U-shaped in plan and provided with spaced, parallel, planar surfaces, left and right transverse marginal edges, and a longitudinal straight-edge arranged in spaced opposed, parallel relationship with respect to the straight-edge of the first guide member, the second guide member further being provided with a recess arranged spaced from the coextensive with the straight-edges for accommodating the shoes of feet of user of the putting aid; c. assembling and coordinating means including a rigid strap member connected to the first and second guide members along one corresponding transverse marginal edge thereOf for separably uniting and maintaining the guide members in coacting relationship and providing a uniform channel-like guideway between the straight-edges, the guideway arranged for accommodating a golf ball in a manually set position and the head of a putter in ready-to-putt relationship, the arrangement of the strap member closing the guideway at one end thereof and permitting the guideway to be unobstructedly open at its opposite, ball discharging end; d. limit stop means for permitting a user to observe and determine the distance between the ball and putter head and serving to plan and gauge the back-stroke required to cause the ball to travel a predetermined distance when putted; and e. retaining means provided on both planar surfaces of the first and second guide members for selectively mounting the limit stop means in a desired position on a selected pair of planar surfaces of the guide members.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
The putting aid defined in claim 1, and wherein said limit stop means is usable only when needed and is extensible and contractible to function properly in conjunction with said assembling and uniting means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
66 words
The putting aid defined in claim 1, and wherein the straight-edged portions of said guide members are provided on adjacent portions of both surfaces with calibrated indicating scales and longitudinally spaced sockets, said sockets providing keeper-pin holes, and the companion end portions of said limit stop means having fixed depending keeper pins capable of being selectively positioned and temporarily retained in their respectively cooperable keeper-pin holes.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
The putting aid defined in claim 3, and wherein said limit stop means is bodily attachable and detachable, is manually and shiftably adjustable, is longitudinally extensible and retractable and comprises telescopingly connected channel-shaped sections.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
66 words
The putting aid defined in claim 4, and wherein said cut-out portion is of a size and shape for receiving and accommodating the shoes of the golfer so that the golfer can stand directly atop the putting surface and retain his basic putting stance and also achieve the correct relationship between the spotted golf ball and its location relative to said putter and his lead foot.