Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Ball feeding means and tee
Patent
1996-05-13
1997-11-04
Wong, Steven B.
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Ball feeding means and tee
473387, A63B 5700
Patent
active
056833059
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention refers to a device which will eliminate a troublesome moment when practising on the driving range, namely the necessity of, between every practise-shot, having to bend down and tee up the ball.
RELATED TECHNOLOGY
When training with certain wood and ironclubs from a tee-mat, it is customary to place the ball on a peg of wood or plastic in order to facilitate the hitting of the ball. Before every shot you consequently bend down and insert a peg in the mat on which the ball i placed. As you often hit a large number of balls, the bending down and teeing up becomes very annoying and tiresome.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is possible to be spared from bending down and instead, standing upright, be able to poke up the ball on the peg with the club-head. Up to now this method has not been known, but with the device here described it is quite possible. Another advantage with this device is that you do not have to pick up pegs which are scattered around the tee-mat.
The purpose with the invention is to produce a device, which makes it possible for the golfer, without bending down, to move the ball from the mat up on the device to the height of a normal peg and when the ball has reached that position, hit it from the device in exactly the same manner as from a normal peg. This task has been solved by forming the device as an inclined plane from the mat to the level of a normal peg height. Sometimes the ball is hit low and then the club-head hits the inclined plane. Therefore the device is constructed in such a manner that the inclined plane is elastic and is bent out of the way when hit by the club-head.
The present invention has a unitary long rod (for example, a wire) bent or molded into a shape as clearly seen in FIG. 1. The shape has a truncated V-shaped portion having a wider base and a narrower upper end. The truncated V-shaped portion acts as an upwardly inclined ramp as seen in FIG. 2. At the upper end the elongate rod is formed into a generally circular portion as seen at the left-hand side of FIG. 1, here referred to as a slightly cup-shaped circular portion, which has a ball-cup for holding the golf ball. That is, the rod includes a first leg of the inclined ramp and a second leg of the inclined ramp, both continuous with a respective first and second end of the circular portion. The inclined ramp is elastic because the rod is made of a springy material, like a plastic or iron-containing metal. The slightly cup-shaped circular portion is generally circular in a first plane defined by the inclined ramp (i.e. generally in the plane of the paper in FIG. 1) and is slightly cup-shaped in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane and parallel to a length of the inclined ramp (i.e. generally the plane of the paper in FIG. 2).
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows the device seen from above.
FIG. 2 shows the device seen from the side.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The present invention is made of an elastic material. The material is shaped as shown i FIG. 1. At the level of (a) the material is formed in such a manner that it is given a narrowing V-shape up to (b) where it takes a circular form, which is the ball-lie (e). The V-shape is intended to facilitate the poking up of the ball with the club-head from the mat to the ball-lie of the device. The device is fastened to a plate (c).
FIG. 2 shows that the inclined plane starts at (a) and ends at (b) where it turns into the slightly cup-shaped ball-lie (e). The angle at (d) and the length of the inclined plane decides the height of the ball-lie over the mat. The angle can be changed by transforming the material. The elasticity of the inclined plane is shown with lines of short dashes indicating a deflective position. A ball (g) is shown in the ball-lie (e), also herein called a ball-cup or a slightly cup-shaped circular portion.
At the lower end of the ramp, i.e. at the level of (a), the rod extends parallel to the ground for attachment of the device to ground plate (c). The first leg of
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