Golf club container with extensible wheels

Claim 1

A container for golf clubs and ancillary apparatus comprising, in combination: two elongate, peripherally defined club cylinders spacedly joined by top and bottom elements to form a wheel channel therebetween with a support carried between the cylinders in the medial portion of the wheel channel, said top element defining a plurality of tube hole above both club cylinders to releasably and fastenably receive the upper portion of a plurality of support tubes and said bottom element having an upper surface defining a plurality of spacedly arrayed cells below both club cylinders to receive and support the plurality of support tubes, carried in the holes defined in the top member, in substantially parallel array in the club cylinders; a plurality of support tubes carried in the tube holes defined in the top member and extending downwardly to the cooperating cells in the bottom member, each support tube defining a channel to receive the handle and shaft of a golf club and having releasable fastening means to cooperate with the hole structure to releasably maintain a tube therein; and a wheel structure having a mounting tube, carried by the support in the medial portion of the wheel channel, to extend laterally beyond opposite sides of the wheel channel, said mounting tube pivotally carrying at each end a strut support having releasable catch means for maintaining one angular position wherein wheels are supported for locomotion and having a portion extending laterally outwardly at each end to carry a pin to pivotally mount a strut, a compound strut carried by each strut support and having two slidably extendible relatively rotatable members with first means for releasably maintaining a particular extended position and second means for biasing the tubes towards a non-extended position, the outer portion of each strut carrying wheel mounting yokes which pivotally carry rotatable cylinders with radially extending wheel mounting axles and means for releasably maintaining a particular radial position of the rotatable cylinders, and wheels journaled on each of said wheel mounting axles, each of said wheels being containable in one of the compartments vertically adjacent the medial support in the wheel channel.