Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Ball feeding means and tee
Patent
1995-04-28
1996-08-27
Wong, Steven B.
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Ball feeding means and tee
473136, A63B 5700
Patent
active
055495176
ABSTRACT:
A golf ball setting apparatus for feeding onto a tee a golf ball advanced by gravity to a forward end of a ball supply chute via a rotating ball feeder disk having a feed pawl in accordance with a signal from a ball sensor which indicates no golf ball on the tee, comprising a ball stopper disposed above the chute, the ball stopper having a front end pivotable between a lower position at which the front end lockingly engages a golf ball adjacent the forward end of the chute and an upper position at which the front end does not lockingly engage the ball, the ball stopper being held in engagement with a spring urging the front end to move so as to constantly assume the lower position, and with a ball releasing solenoid for moving the front end to the upper position against the force of the spring when the solenoid is excited. The solenoid is controlled by a control system including a ball release timer defining excitation time so that the solenoid is not excited in the event of any abnormal function of the ball sensor such as the sensor sensing a no-ball condition despite the presence of a ball. Therefore, in the event of such abnormal function of the ball sensor, golf balls on the chute are prevented by the ball stopper from advancing toward the forward end of the chute, no golf ball being supplied to the tee even when the disk is rotated in response to a non-ball signal.
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Ikemoto Shatai Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Wong Steven B.
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