Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Patent
1978-08-07
1980-09-23
Marlo, George J.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
273195A, A63B 6936
Patent
active
042238919
ABSTRACT:
To analyze golf strokes, the disclosed device has a mat assembly and a console, the mat assembly preferably including an electrically conducting base plate, mat, artificial grass, tee and eight special switches. The switches are arranged one behind and another in front of the tee, with the other six forming an oblong rectangle extending along the path of the stroke from somewhat behind to well in front of the tee, with four of them at the corners of the rectangle and the other two half way along its long sides. The analysis includes a for evaluating a golf club swing, which method compares "I" with "II", "I" being the time it takes for a swung gold club head to travel from a first pair of the six switches (actuated just prior to passing the golf ball position) to a second pair of the six switches (actuated just past the golf ball position) and "II" being the time it takes for the golf club head to travel from the second pair of switches to the third pair of the six switches.
Each switch has an elastomeric feeler extending well up beyond the mat member, and a solid contact surface behind and spaced from the feeler and lower in height than the feeler, with a thin, flexible conducting strip of the same height as the solid contact surface attached to the back of the feeler and moving with it, and an insulating strip lower than the flexible conducting strip between the flexible conducting strip and the solid contact surface.
The console is actuated through a special electrical setup including the switches and has separate lights showing for a limited time a comprehensive analysis of the stroke, including whether its velocity accelerates in its further part, the general path it takes for an extending distance not limited to that close to the tee, whether or not it is a case of hitting "fat" or a divot shot, and whether the club face is angularly out of true in either horizontal direction or not.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3513387 (1970-05-01), Mayeda
patent: 3601408 (1971-08-01), Wright
patent: 3685833 (1972-08-01), Jack
Britton Robert W.
Van Gaasbeek Richard
Chovanes Eugene
Jackson Edward Lovett
Marlo George J.
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