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Article: California Inventor Develops Golf Ball Retriever
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 27, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 27 -- Gerry Kerr of South Surrey, Calif., has developed a golf ball retriever.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The golf ball retriever is a retrieval device for recovering golf balls from water hazards or the like. The golf ball retriever has a handle connected to a ball receiving body. The ball receiving body has a pair of posterior fingers, several anterior fingers and a cavity. The cavity holds the golf ball once a user has drawn or forced the ball into the cavity."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The user forces the golf ball into the cavity by pressing the golf ball retriever down upon the golf ball, ...