Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Projectile addressing surface and target – or distance marker
Patent
1996-09-13
1998-03-31
Graham, Mark S.
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Projectile addressing surface and target, or distance marker
473155, 473153, 473199, A63B 6936
Patent
active
057332002
ABSTRACT:
A practice putting green assembly has a strip of artificial grass supported on an articulated multi-sectional frame. A plurality of motor/lift arm combinations can selectively raise or lower individual hinge points between the frame sections. A programmable circuit such as a microprocessor, is able to store a repertoire of programs of different movements responsive to the individual motor/lift arm combinations. This way, a series of topographies of the artificial grass strip may be selected by a player from a plug-in console connected to the programmable circuit. Putted balls are returned to a player over the grass surface by automatically inclining the target end of the grass strip toward the player, causing a pendulum controlled cup to empty and any balls on the grass surface to roll under gravity back to the player.
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G.L. Technology, Inc.
Graham Mark S.
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