Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Spool or core
Patent
1977-05-25
1978-11-14
Christian, Leonard D.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Spool or core
273184B, 273196, A63B 6936
Patent
active
041252306
ABSTRACT:
Golf ball retrieval apparatus characterized by reduced drag on the ball after it is driven from the apparatus, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a base, a take-up reel driven by a selectively actuatable reel motor connected to the base and adapted to draw a golf ball, connected by a tether to the reel, toward the base. A reel motor switch is mounted on the base and positioned so as to automatically deactivate the reel motor in response to tension in the tether caused by the arrival of the golf ball at a predetermined location on the base. The apparatus also includes a pair of rotatable tether drive wheels mounted on the base, a shifting mechanism coupled to at least one of the tether drive wheels which responds to the activation of the reel motor switch so as to move the first and second tether drive wheels together a distance sufficient to enable them to frictionally engage the tether, and a selectively actuatable wheel motor mounted on the base which is activated in response to the activation of the reel motor switch for rotating the tether wheels, whereby the tether wheels remove at least a portion of the tether from the take-up reel. The apparatus further includes an elongated tubular member, open at both ends, coupled to the base and a guide located between the tubular member and the tether drive wheels, at least a portion of the guide extending through one of the end openings of the tubular member and being located within the tube. The tubular member receives a selected portion of the tether which is removed from the take-up reel and maintains the tether in a slack condition. A wheel motor switch connected to the tether wheel motor for deactivating the wheel motor and for permitting the tether drive wheels to move away from one another after a pre-selected length of tether is removed from the take-up reel is also provided.
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