181 |
Automatic golf practice course |
US654872 |
1991-02-13 |
US5052688A |
1991-10-01 |
R. Jang Shiau |
An automatic golf practice course having a number of fairways, including a target area, a tee off area and a golf ball collecting/feeding assembly. The target area has a target to provide a reference for teeing and an inclined plate covered with artificial grass layers to form fairways. The inclined plate extends over an entire area of the fairways and is supported by distantly disposed bases with top surfaces having a same slope as the inclined plate. The golf balls falling from the inclined target area after being teed off are collected and fed by the collecting/feeding assembly to appear on a tee. |
182 |
Golf ball dispenser and setter |
US567165 |
1990-08-13 |
US4995614A |
1991-02-26 |
Mark L. Tange |
A lightweight, manually portable apparatus includes an adjustable, horizontally disposed base having a vertically rising, and partially transparent ball storage housing affixed thereto. The storage housing is internally baffled to store a number of balls in a zigzagging, vertically rising single column. A pivotally attached ball selector is positioned adjacent a ball dispensing aperture of the storage housing. The selector will allow the separation of one ball at a time from the single column of stored balls. After selection, the selected ball rolls downhill and leaves the storage housing to come to rest against a first end of an elongated pivotally attached vertical delivery chute. The delivery chute pivots downward under the weight of the ball resting thereon. The ball rolls downhill toward a second end of the chute and drops through an aperture in the delivery chute to be deposited onto a playing surface. A counterweight attached to the first end of the chute causes the chute to pivot back to a vertical position after setting the ball. The delivery chute is disengagable when struck by a golf club, and the selector is specifically structured to maintain the stored balls within the storage housing with the delivery chute disengaged from the apparatus. |
183 |
Electro-mechanical teeing apparatus for golf balls |
US444321 |
1989-12-01 |
US4981299A |
1991-01-01 |
Michael J. Petrillo |
An automatic apparatus for teeing golf balls for practice hitting includes a ball container, an indexer rocker wheel, a ball positioner, and a tee. The indexer rocker wheel carries a ball from an intake position at the container to a discharge position over the ball positioner, and returns for another ball. The ball positioner includes a reversible drive motor and a ball carrier for movement back and forth between a ball pickup position at the indexer to a ball delivery position on the tee. The tubular tee includes a photosensor operatively connected to the drive motor and responsive to light to signal the operation of the ball positioner. |
184 |
Golf tee platform device |
US244509 |
1988-09-14 |
US4886276A |
1989-12-12 |
Joseph A. Digangi; Daron L. Call |
A golf practice device includes an elevated platform molded of plastic. The platform includes wooden load distributing members in depressed areas on either side of a central area for the ball. A ball lifting mechanism lifts a ball from a Y-pipe fed from a golf ball filled tube. A motor operates a cam which causes a tee holder to rise and fall within a grooved straight leg of the Y-pipe. |
185 |
Golf ball dispenser and tee apparatus |
US135643 |
1987-12-21 |
US4817955A |
1989-04-04 |
Donald N. Hickson; Gerald W. Todd; Edward A. Seskus |
A golf ball dispenser and tee apparatus includes a cylindrical hopper for carrying a plurality of golf balls, a rotatable disc mounted in the hopper above the floor thereof with a plurality of holes, a cover for covering one of the holes when the hole is aligned with an opening in the floor of the hopper, so that the golf balls are discharged one at a time into an inclined tube, a motor for rotating the disc in the hopper, a coin operated switch for initiating operation of the motor, a gripper mounted on a slide at the end of the inclined tube for gripping a golf ball when actuated by a switch which is operated by the head of a club, and a second motor for moving the slide with the gripper outwardly to a position where the ball is deposited on a tee, and returning the slide and gripper to the rest position for gripping another ball. The gripper is operated by a solenoid and operation of the slide motor is achieved by microswitches. |
186 |
Teeing device |
US771692 |
1985-09-03 |
US4741537A |
1988-05-03 |
Alvin R. Adam |
An apparatus for semiautomatically teeing up golf balls utilizing very low air pressure as an operating medium. Balls are loaded onto a contoured dish at the upper end of an open ended upright cylinder and pass from the dish into a flexible tube wrapped helically around the outside of the cylinder. The lower end of the tube is blocked by a ball dispenser. When a user trips a lever on the ball dispenser, one ball is permitted to roll to a stop above a hole in the hitting mat directly above the air operated teeing device. The teeing device includes a teeing tube attached vertically above an expandable chamber and extending just to the top surface of the hitting mat. A very low pressure stream of air constantly flows through the chamber and escapes via the teeing tube. When a golf ball comes to rest above the teeing tube, the escape of air is terminated, causing the expandable chamber to fill, thereby raising the teeing tube and the ball to the teed height. When the golf ball is struck from the teeing tube, the air again escapes from the expandable chamber, causing the teeing tube to recede into the hole in the hitting mat ready for the next ball to be teed. |
187 |
Golf practice apparatus |
US668726 |
1984-10-29 |
US4659081A |
1987-04-21 |
James L. Cook |
The apparatus is comprised of a platform from which a player may drive a ball into an enclosure. A sloping floor is provided to return balls to a reservoir placed under the platform. A teeing mechanism operated by a player presents balls one at a time to a tee. The mechanism is comprised of a pneumatic system with master and servo bellows. |
188 |
Golf ball teeing apparatus |
US492492 |
1983-05-06 |
US4602789A |
1986-07-29 |
Bong J. Chung |
A golf ball teeing apparatus has an upper surface. A tee-like device has a ball receiving top and is vertically reciprocable between a retracted position and a raised position where the top is above the upper surface. A feed mechanism feeds one ball at a time onto the top of the tee-like device. The feed mechanism is adjacent the top of the tee-like device when the tee-like device is in the retracted position. A guide track slopes downwardly towards the feed mechanism. A ball storage rack is below the upper surface and slopes downwardly towards a discharge end thereof. There is a ball elevator for raising balls from a lower position adjacent the discharge end of the storage rack to an upper position where the balls can roll down the guide track to the feed mechanism. |
189 |
Automatic apparatus for positioning footballs for kicking |
US558468 |
1983-12-06 |
US4460173A |
1984-07-17 |
Samuel R. Dumas |
Automatic devices for positioning footballs for subsequent kicking to aid in kicking practice. The apparatus comprises a hopper for containing a plurality of footballs, which is perferably secured to a supportive base. Set-up apparatus serially receives footballs from the hopper and positions them in an upright, generally vertically end to end oriented position suitable for kicking. The hopper may be inclined with respect to the base to facilitate gravity feed, or it may include football contacting means for forcibly conveying footballs therethrough. In a preferred embodiment the hopper may transversely feed the set-up means. The set-up means may be controlled electrically or pneumatically. |
190 |
Automatic golf ball teeing apparatus |
US182092 |
1980-08-28 |
US4355811A |
1982-10-26 |
Louis E. Williams, Sr. |
A golf ball teeing apparatus which utilizes a double-threaded shaft and its attendant pawl assembly as a mechanism to elevate replacement golf balls sequentially from a supply tube and hopper to a driving position, automatically, as the tee element and prior golf ball are struck by the golfer. When struck by a golf club, the spring-loaded tee element tilts forward causing the lower curved end of the tee element to strike a pressure-sensitive microswitch which, in turn, closes a holding relay actuating the fractional horsepower electrical motor for an operating cycle. The geared-down fractional horsepower motor slowly rotates the double-threaded shaft to which it is coupled, thereby lowering the pawl assembly and the piston supporting the tee assembly to the ball receiving position. At that point in the cycle, a golf ball is fed by gravity from a supply tube and nearby hopper onto the tee element. Then, in one continuous motion, the reverse thread of the rotating double-threaded shaft raises the pawl assembly, piston and tee assembly back up to the fully teed-up or driving position where a second microswitch is struck by a pin on the pawl assembly, opening the holding relay and stopping the fractional horsepower motor. |
191 |
Automatic golf teeing devices |
US970062 |
1978-12-15 |
US4265453A |
1981-05-05 |
Rupert H. C. Loof |
A golf ball teeing apparatus to receive a ball from a magazine holding a plurality of balls and position the ball on a tee automatically upon a previous ball positioned on the tee being struck by a golf club. When a ball is driven off the tee, the tee deflects. This deflection actuates a first gate in the magazine to release one ball for movement onto a pivoted and counterweighted arm. The weight of the released ball pivots the arm to transfer that ball to the tee. At the tee, the ball rolls off the arm and the counterweight returns the arm to a position adjacent the magazine. As the arm returns to this position, it actuates a second gate in the magazine to permit one ball to move against the first gate in position to be released onto the arm when the teed ball has been driven. |
192 |
Automatic golf ball teeing apparatus |
US629324 |
1975-11-06 |
US4017087A |
1977-04-12 |
Philip Bruno |
Golf apparatus for driving ranges and the like. A piston moves upwardly and downwardly in a cylinder below the ground level. Successive golf balls are taken one at a time from a supply of such balls, and raised by the piston either to turf level or to a tee level at an elevation somewhat above the turf level. When the ball is hit by a club, the decrease in weight against a pressure-sensitive switch carried by the piston, serves to close the switch to start an electric motor through the next cycle of operation. An adjustment is provided for determining whether the ball is to be raised only to the turf level, or all the way to the tee level. The adjustment feature of the apparatus also includes a control mechanism which serves to keep the pressure sensitive switch closed and keep the motor operating during the entire cycle of operation, notwithstanding that the weight of the ball during the upward travel from ball loading position to hitting position of the tee would tend to close the switch and stop the motor, if this control mechanism were not provided. |
193 |
Automatic golf ball teeing apparatus |
US3778067D |
1971-02-22 |
US3778067A |
1973-12-11 |
GENTILUOMO J |
A golf ball teeing apparatus functional in providing either golf practice or golf game mode of operation through an open-loop control system to yield multi-position tee elevation, thus enabling the golfer to perform both tee and fairway shots from the same tee. The apparatus consists basically of a ball teeing means having a reciprocating tee to elevate the ball from a lowermost ball receiving position to either an intermediate ball hitting position or an uppermost ball hitting position, a ball dispensing means for storing a plurality of balls, a ball receptacle for receiving or storing balls for subsequent use by the ball teeing means, a vend initiating means for initiating apparatus operation, a counter to monitor the number of balls to be supplied to the ball teeing means per vend, and pushbutton and punched tape control means for inciting tee height positional commands to the teeing means.
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194 |
Automatic golf ball teeing means |
US3549152D |
1967-03-01 |
US3549152A |
1970-12-22 |
GENTILUOMO JOSEPH A |
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195 |
Automatic ball dispensing and teeing machine |
US3511507D |
1965-09-09 |
US3511507A |
1970-05-12 |
GENTILUOMO JOSEPH A |
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196 |
Apparatus for teeing golf balls |
US3423097D |
1966-03-10 |
US3423097A |
1969-01-21 |
FRY HENRY GORDON |
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197 |
Golf practice device |
US3420528D |
1964-12-18 |
US3420528A |
1969-01-07 |
DAY HERBERT T |
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198 |
Golf ball teeing device with photocell and counter operated control means |
US32449263 |
1963-11-18 |
US3294402A |
1966-12-27 |
SCOTT HOWARD A |
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199 |
Automatic golf ball teeing device actuated by a battery energized motor |
US18689662 |
1962-04-12 |
US3112932A |
1963-12-03 |
LYLE MARSH |
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200 |
Golf ball teeing device |
US3960860 |
1960-06-29 |
US3075774A |
1963-01-29 |
BUELL ALVIN E |
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