US3447171A - Combination golf shoe calk maintenance kit and money clip - Google Patents

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June 3, 1969 "B. A. EYER 3,447,171

COMBINATION GOLF SHOE CALK MAINTENANCE KIT AND MONEY CLIP Filed June 29, 1967 FIG 4 FIG 5 FlG 6 FIG 7 BIRD A. E YER INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,447,171 COMBINATION GOLF SHOE CALK MAINTE- NANCE KIT AND MONEY CLIP Bird A. Eyer, 3409 Magnolia Blvd. W.,

Seattle, Wash. 98199 Filed June 29, 1967, Ser. No. 650,117 Int. Cl. B25f 1/00; B25b 13/02; A47] 23/22 US. C]. 71 1 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A combination golf shoe calk maintenance kit and money clip in which a sheath open at both ends receives a calk wrench at one end and a calk cleaning tool at the other end and has a money clip mounted thereon.

The present invention relates to a golf shoe calk maintenance kit which provides a calk cleaning tool and calk wrench as a compact unit also doubling as a money clip to be carried in the golfers pocket.

While on the golf course a golfer frequently has need of a device to clean his shoe calks, and occasionally has need of a wrench for tightening or replacing one of the calks. This invention aims to satisfy these needs by a pocket-size unit which can be conveniently carried and will have a continuous auxiliary use as a money clip.

In the accompanying drawing:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a kit embodying the present invention as viewed from the back, and with the spike wrench partly removed;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the kit as seen from the front money clip side;

FIG. 3 is an elevational view illustrating the spike cleaning tool of the kit in operating position on a calk;

FIG. 4 is an elevational view illustrating the spike wrench of the kit in operating position on a calk shown in phantom;

FIGS. 5 and 6 are bottom end views of the spike cleaning tool and wrench, respectively; and

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a typical golf shoe calk.

Referring to FIG. 7, there is shown a standard golf shoe calk 10, such for example, as shown in Patent No. 2,624,128. Such a calk has a concavo-convex circular base 11 formed with a diametrically opposite pair of socket holes 12 for receiving the prongs of a suitable spanner wrench for tightening or removing the calk. A screwthreaded spindle 13 projects upwardly from the concave side of the base 11, and the spike portion 14 of the calk projects downwardly from the convex side. The present invention provides a cleaning tool 15 and wrench 16 for the calk and a tubular sheath 17 of uniform oblong crosssection for holding both the wrench and the cleaning tool. In addition, the sheath has a money clip 18.

The cleaning tool 15 is of the type shown in Patent No. 2,866,218 in that it presents at the working end of its body 20 a center recess with a socket 21 from which a pair of scraping edges 22 diverge at an obtuse angle corresponding to the bevel of the convex face of the base 11 of the calk '10. At the outer ends of these edges 22 the body 20 presents a pair of scraping fingers23 spaced apart in accordance with the external diameter of the calk base 11. The body 20 of the wrench is shaped to interfit with the sheath and has an enlarged head 24 commencing at a circumferential shoulder 25 and matching the external circumference of the sheath 17.

As shown in FIG. 3, to use the cleaning tool 15 it is centered over a calk with the point of the spike in the center socket 21, the scraping edges 22 engaging the convex face of the calk base 11, and the scraping fingers 23' straddling the rim of the calk base. The head 24 of the tool is then gripped as a handle and the tool turned to clean grass and dirt from the calk and adjoining portion of the related sole.

The wrench 16 has an enlarged head 24' and a body 20 of the same cross-section as the head 24 and body 20 of the cleaning tool 15. At its working end the wrench also has a central recess with a socket 21, and presents a pair of prongs 26 of a size and spacing to mate with the socket holes '12 of the calk.

To use the wrench 16 it is centered over a calk with the point of the spike in the center socket 21' and the prongs 26 seated in the holes 12. As before, the head 24' is used as a handle to turn the wrench in the desired direction for tightening or removing the calk.

The clip 18, shown in FIG. 2, is formed of flat spring material and has a doubled-back anchoring leg 27 bonded to one of the wider faces of the sheath 17.

It is thus seen that the sheath 17, tool 15, wrench 16, and clip 18 make up a compact pocket-size kit from which the tool or wrench is easily removed for use merely by gripping the respective head-handle 24 or 24' and pulling the device out of the sheath. Removal of the cleaning tool or wrench does not effect use of the clip 18 and sheath 17 as a currency holder.

It is believed that the invetnion will have been clearly understood from the foregoing detailed description of my now-preferred illustrated embodiment. Changes in the details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention and it is accordingly my intention that no limitations be implied and that the hereto annexed claim be given the broadest interpretation to which the employed language fairly admits.

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A combination golf shoe calk maintenance kit and money clip comprising, a sheath open at opposite ends and having a flattened rectangular cross section providing wide side faces and narrow edge faces; the narrow interior thickness of said sheath being slightly greater than the diameter of a calk socket hole; a calk wrench having a body of rectangular cross section adapted to be slidably inserted into said sheath and frictionally engaged with the inner walls thereof, said body being provided with a pair of fiat outer edges separated by a central recess having a calk spike socket therein, a pair of prongs extending outwardly from the flat outer edges of said body and being sized and spaced to mate with calk socket holes, and an enlarged head integral with the end of said body opposite said prongs and having an outer rectangular cross section equal to that of said sheath with a circumferential shoulder adapted to butt firmly against one end of said sheath when said body wrench is inserted therein; a calk cleaning tool having a body of rectangular cross section adapted to be slidably inserted into said sheath and frictionally engaged with the inner walls thereof, said body being provided with outer calk scraping edges oriented at an obtuse angle corresponding to the bevel on a calk base face and separated by a central recess having a calk spike socket therein, a pair of scraping fingers integral with the outer edges of said body and spaced apart to receive a calk base there- ReferencesCited between, and an enlarged head integral with the end of UNITED STATES PATENTS said body opposite said scraping fingers and having an outer rectangular cross section equal to that of said sheath 3 i X with a circumferential shoulder adapted to butt firmly 5 3224O52 12/1965 gg g g against one end of said sheath when said cleaning tool body is inserted therein; said wrench body and cleaning ROBERT C RIORDON, Primary Examiner.

tool body having a combined length no greater than the length of said sheath; and a spring clip secured to one of PARKER Assistant Exammer' the wider sides of said sheath and arranged generally lon- 0 U5, (1 X gitudinally of said sheath. 15236; 819.5, 9O

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