US 11,992,738 B2
Golf ball marker with rotating target aiming device
Gregory Freuler, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Assigned to GALAXG LLC, Clackamas, OR (US)
Appl. No. 17/421,356
Filed by GALAXG LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/015700
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/160162, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/918,473, filed on Jan. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0088448 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 57/30 (2015.01); A63B 57/50 (2015.01); A63B 69/36 (2006.01); A63B 71/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 57/353 (2015.10) [A63B 57/50 (2015.10); A63B 69/3676 (2013.01); A63B 71/0622 (2013.01); A63B 2071/0694 (2013.01); A63B 2209/08 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A ball marker comprising:
a base comprising:
a top surface and an opposing bottom surface,
a ball contact side, disposed on a sidewall between the top and bottom surfaces, having a shape configured to contact a spherical ball along a plurality of points defining a surface line of the ball that is orthogonally oriented with a vertical axis of the ball, the contact of the plurality of points being made simultaneously;
an opposing back side disposed between the top and bottom surfaces;
an aiming device, comprising a linear indicator, coupled to the base and configured to move along an arcuate path above the top surface, wherein when the ball contact surface is in fixed abutment against a ball, the arcuate path defines an axis of rotation with respect to the vertical axis of the spherical ball, and wherein the linear indicator remains radially oriented to the axis of rotation regardless of the position of the aiming device on the arcuate path;
wherein the base comprises an arcuate channel disposed between the ball contact side and the opposing back side, defining the arcuate path and the axis of rotation, the arcuate channel extending from the top surface toward the bottom surface, and wherein the aiming device is moveable within the arcuate channel;
wherein the aiming device comprises:
a direction arm having a radial length, wherein the linear indicator is disposed on a top
surface of the direction arm along the radial length;
a channel post coupled to a bottom surface of the direction arm, wherein the channel post extends from the direction arm into the arcuate channel and is moveable therein; and
a receiver coupled to the channel post and configured to permit the channel post to move in the arcuate channel and to prevent the aiming device from decoupling from the base.