Games using tangible projectile – Golf – Tee
Patent
1998-03-24
1999-12-21
Wong, Steven
Games using tangible projectile
Golf
Tee
A63B 5700
Patent
active
060042281
ABSTRACT:
An improved angular golf tee made from a single unity piece of plastic which defines an elongated, ribbed body and a tapered structure with a shoulder. Distal ends of the ribbed body terminate in the shoulder and in a thin ring, respectively. Properly inserted into the earth, the tapered structure is disposed vertically; and the ribbed body is bent away from the vertical by an angle of about 30 degrees. This configuration allows one to direct the upper end of the ribbed body toward himself, so that there is less chance of the tee and any golf ball resting thereon being hit simultaneously. The ribbed body further defines a pair of open, elongated cavities between which protrudes an elongated, vertical, flat rib. The pair of elongated cavities and rib are capped by the thin ring which terminates upwardly in a horizontally-disposed rim. Sloping inwardly from the rim, the ring defines a concave hollow, whose curvature closely matches that of the exterior surface of a standard-size golf ball. Two notches are aligned with each other on opposite sides of the rim and are disposed in the same vertical plane as the rib. These notches allow air to flow freely into the hollow as the golf ball lifts off as does a slight distortion of the rim which occurs at the same time. The latter phenomenon, which substantially eliminates the effects of depressurization between the ball and tee, is caused by flexure of the outer walls of the elongated, open cavities as they expand due to wind currents generated by a golfer's swing.
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Leon Harry I.
Steadman Vivian L.
Wong Steven
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