C-shaped disk holder

Abstract

A device for carrying and removably displaying small disk-like items has a substantially planar body with a front, a back, and a pair of arms made of a resilient material defining a C-shaped elastic opening, and an internal slot parallel to the front and back and accessible from the C-shaped elastic open end for receiving a disk-like item wherein a portion of the body partially covers the area adjacent a periphery of a disk-like item when fully inserted into said internal slot. In an alternative embodiment, the C-shaped disk retainer forms a golfer's ball marker retainer at the handle end of a divot repair tool.

1 . A device for carrying and removably displaying small disk-like items comprising:
 a substantially planar body with a front, a back and a pair of arms made of a predetermined material defining a C-shaped elastic opening; and   an internal slot substantially parallel with said front and said back and accessible from said C-shaped elastic opening for receiving one of said disk-like items wherein a portion of said body partially covers an area adjacent a periphery of said disk-like item when fully inserted into said internal slot.   
   
   
       2 . The device, according to  claim 1 , wherein said predetermined material is a resilient rubber-like substance. 
   
   
       3 . The device, according to  claim 1 , wherein said arms are substantially rigid and encased in a resilient covering increasing in thickness at distal ends of said short arms. 
   
   
       4 . The device, according to  claim 1 , wherein said predetermined material is a flexible cured silicone caulking compound. 
   
   
       5 . The device, according to  claim 1 , wherein a clip arm is disposed on one outer surface of said planar body. 
   
   
       6 . The device, according to  claim 5 , wherein said clip arm is connected to a torsion spring at a pivot point attached said outer surface. 
   
   
       7 . The device, according to  claim 5 , wherein said clip arm is a semi-rigid wavy strip flexible at a point of attachment and having a convex section tangentially contacting said outer surface prior to being actively engaged. 
   
   
       8 . A combination golfing divot-repair and ball marker retaining device comprising:
 a) a substantially rigid and substantially flat central body portion tapered toward a narrow first end opposite a wide second end;   b) a pair of substantially rigid tapered prongs extending from said narrow first end of said central body portion and constituting about half an overall length of said divot-repair and ball marker retaining device;   c) a C-shaped recess at said wide second end, said C-shaped recess forming a pair of peripheral arms;   d) a semicircular slot formed within said C-shaped recess, said semicircular slot adapted to receive peripheral edges of said ball marker; and   e) zones of resilient material adhered to a portion of free ends of said peripheral arms.   
   
   
       9 . The combination golfing divot-repair and ball marker retaining device, according to  claim 8 , wherein said zones of resilient material are cured drops of a silicone caulking compound in said slot at said free ends of said peripheral arms. 
   
   
       10 . The combination golfing divot-repair and ball marker retaining device, according to  claim 8 , wherein said zones of resilient material are caps of a cured polymeric elastomer adhered to and encasing about one to three centimeters of distal ends of said peripheral arms.