Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Patent
1989-09-13
1990-04-24
Marlo, George J.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
273188R, A63B 6936
Patent
active
049194330
ABSTRACT:
A portable putt training device capable of use indoors or out and useful in training for two different types of putting strokes, e.g. a pendulum style using predominantly wrist motion, and a flat or horizontal stroke using forearm motion with little wrist flexing. The device has a vertically adjustable post in a base which the user can straddle, a swinging guide arm pivoted to the base and extending upward to or beyond the top of the post, a guide track member fixed to the post constraining the guide arm to swing in a plane, and a club retainer pivotally attached to the upper end of the guide arm. The club retainer can also be pivotally attached to the upper end of the post for training of wrist action. In an alternate embodiment the post and base are replaced by a tripod which has a crossbar connecting the bottom end of two legs of the tripod, and having the low pivotal mounting for the guide arm. The guide track member is fixed across the same two legs upward from the cross bar, and the alternate pivotal mount for the shaft retainer is attached to the top of the tripod. In all cases the guide arm has a long radius between its low pivot mounting and the club retainer, so the handle of a club fitted to such retainer is guided in an almost flat arc to move the club head and face in linear fashion. The guide arm can be fitted with an upper horizontal guide track, and a lower vertically arranged guide slot allows the lower end of the guide arm to have a short vertical path of movement, thereby contraining the club shaft retainer to horizontal linear movement.
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