Susan Ayers Phelps

US Patent:

7172517, Feb 6, 2007

Filed:

Oct 3, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/242712

Inventors:

Susan Candace Phelps - Scottsdale AZ, US
Christopher Lee Wehrle - Denver CO, US

International Classification:

A63B 53/14

US Classification:

473316, 40409

Abstract:

A novelty golf club, such as a putter, having a head and a shaft. The upper end of the shaft has a hollow, tubular grip section below which is a transparent tubular viewing section. Graphics are displayed on the viewing section. The upper section of the shaft is filled with a fluid. A sleeve is reciprocal within the fluid and has a specific gravity less than the fluid so that when the club is inverted the sleeve is located behind the graphics to obscure viewing of the graphics. When the club is inverted to a playing position, the sleeve, due to its buoyancy, will “float” to a position within the grip to allow viewing of the graphics.