| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | Golfing accessory to reduce bending and stooping by golfer | US10266424 | 2002-10-08 | US20040067798A1 | 2004-04-08 | Jerry L. O'Donnell; James A. Egli |
| A golfing tool or accessory to reduce or eliminate substantial stooping and bending of a golfer includes a mounting member for snap-fitting the tool or accessory to a golf club shaft or grip and first member for cradling a golf ball. Another aspect of the invention includes a tee holder for holding the tee to allow it to be inserted into the ground by manipulating the golf club shaft without stooping or bending. Further aspects of the invention can include structure for picking up a tee lying horizontally on the ground and a scissors-action of jaws of the tool for popping a golf ball into position on the tool. | ||||||
| 142 | Portable automatic golf ball teeing device | US10272782 | 2002-10-17 | US06685575B1 | 2004-02-03 | James H. Anderson |
| A portable device capable of placing a golf ball on a tee repeatedly without the interaction of the user. The device consists of a base, a ball storage hopper, a ball scoop leading to an arm, a control system including a control panel, a rechargeable battery, an artificial turf mat with a rubber tee, a handle and wheels, and a housing to enclose the device. The user loads golf balls into the storage hopper where they roll down a track to the ball scoop. A sensor signals when a new ball is needed, and a motor lowers the arm which is connected to the ball scoop. When the arm is at its lowest position the ball rolls down the arm to the tee. When the ball is hit off the tee, a new ball is automatically placed on the tee. | ||||||
| 143 | Mechanical golf ball feed apparatus | US10307808 | 2002-12-02 | US06682438B2 | 2004-01-27 | Chong Dae Lee |
| An automatic mechanical golf ball feed apparatus 10 is provided, including a hopper 12 for housing a plurality of golf balls 14, and a gravity driven delivery arm 18 including a counterweight end 22 and a ball delivery end 20, the gravity driven delivery arm 18 being rotatably movable between a loaded position 28 and a delivery position 30. The present invention further includes a chute 16 in communication with the hopper 12 and receiving the plurality of golf balls 14 from the chute 16. An impact gate 52 is positioned between the chute 16 and said gravity driven delivery arm 18, the impact gate 52 including a ball restraint pivot element 80 having a weight biased end 82. The impact gate 52 is rotatable between a gate closed position 84, wherein the plurality of golf balls 14 are restrained from exiting the hopper 12, and a gate open position 86 wherein one of the golf balls 14 is allowed to exit the hopper 12. | ||||||
| 144 | Tee device for sport practice | US10113973 | 2002-03-29 | US06666776B2 | 2003-12-23 | Hideo Yamaguchi |
| An automated tee device uses air pressure through a tee to determine whether a ball is rested on the tee or whether a next ball should be supplied. When a ball is in a rest position on the tee, the airflow through a passage within the tee is inhibited. Consequently, by determining the current condition of airflow through the tee, it can be determined whether a ball is rested on the tee or whether a next ball should be supplied. In accordance with a second aspect of the invention, the tee can be adjusted to any height within a preselected vertical range. Upper and lower limit switches reverse the adjustment of a tee height in response to determining that the upper or the lower limit of the range has been reached. The automated tee device may be used in sports such as golf, baseball and softball. | ||||||
| 145 | Golf ball and tee placement unit | US10055840 | 2002-01-23 | US06631828B1 | 2003-10-14 | Trisha Reardon |
| The present invention 10 discloses a golf/tee placement device having a housing 32 having a hopper 18 therein for the placement of a plurality of golf balls 14 and a canister for the placement of a plurality of tees 16. The housing uses compressed air to move a golf ball 14 and golf tee 16 away from the device and drive the tee 16 into the ground with the golf ball 14 placed thereon. Positioned on the exterior face of the housing 32 is a control panel 26 with user selectable variables such as the depth of the golf tee and the time duration for the placement of subsequent balls and tees. The device moves a tee 16 into the extending placement arm 22 using compressed air. In conjunction with the loading of the tee 16 a single ball 14 is released into the placement arm 22. Once positioned the placement arm 22 uses compressed air to extend it to full position whereupon a jet of compressed air drives the ball 14 and the tee 16 into the ground while opening the hinged element which retracts leaving the golf ball 14 and implanted tee 16 behind. | ||||||
| 146 | Identifying golf balls | US09646470 | 2000-11-09 | US06607123B1 | 2003-08-19 | Steven Paul Jollifee; David Victor Jollifee; Geoffrey Emerson |
| In a golf driving range (10, FIG. 1 not shown) golf balls (21) incorporating uniquely-coded passive transponders are collected by means of a device having a receiving channel (22) which directs the balls past a reader (25) employing RFID technology which reads the codes and supplies this information via a link (32) to a central computer for subsequent display. The reader (25) also actuates a gate (28) to direct the balls to a “reject” receptacle (29) or an “accept” receptacle (30). Similar devices are used for dispensing golf balls (50, FIG. 4 not shown) or supplying balls to an automatic tee device (70, FIG. 5 not shown). Alternatively balls can be identified on or near a tee (84, FIGS. 6 and 7 not shown) on a mat (70). | ||||||
| 147 | Golf simulator | US09766294 | 2001-01-19 | US06595863B2 | 2003-07-22 | Stephen B. Chamberlain; Charles W. Playforth; John C. Pfeiffer; James R. Kaiser |
| A golf simulator has a flooring system comprising a tee area, a green area, a green-side area and a ball feed system adjacent the flooring system. From measurements taken when the ball is hit, the computer control system computes the next shot position of the ball after it is hit and the corresponding location on the flooring system. A ball feed system collects the ball into a ball feed chute and moves the ball toward a return gutter. When the ball contacts a gutter sensor, the sensor signals a gutter door to open, corresponding to a feed tube. The ball is sent down the return gutter and drops, at the position where the gutter door opened, into a feeding tube and a ball lifting mechanism positions a ball at the appropriate location on the flooring system. This process continues until a player finishes the hole. Accordingly, a player need not touch the golf ball, except when under penalty, more similar to an actual round of golf. | ||||||
| 148 | Golf ball teeing device | US10207267 | 2002-07-30 | US20030027654A1 | 2003-02-06 | Thomas K. Hong |
| A golf ball teeing device comprises a base member, a hopper, and a golf ball delivery track mounted on the base member for pivotal movement between a vertical rest position and a horizontal ball teeing position. A support receives the golf balls from the hopper and presents each golf ball for delivery to the track. A vertical motion transfer member moves with the proximal end of the golf ball delivery track. An actuation mechanism comprising a paddle mounted for pivotal movement in a rotational direction opposite to the golf ball delivery track. The actuation mechanism moves the vertical motion transfer member, to thereby move the golf ball delivery track from the vertical rest position to the horizontal ball teeing position and back again, and permits selective delivery of the golf balls onto the golf ball delivery track for subsequent placement on the tee. | ||||||
| 149 | Golf ball teeing device | US10196948 | 2002-07-18 | US20030027653A1 | 2003-02-06 | Thomas K. Hong |
| A golf ball teeing device comprises a base member and a hopper. A golf ball delivery track is substantially straight between its proximal end and its distal end, and is mounted adjacent the proximal end on the base member for substantially vertical travel between a lowered rest position and a raised ball teeing position. A golf ball placement aperture is disposed adjacent the distal end. A support receives the golf balls in seriatim from the hopper and presents each received golf ball for subsequent delivery to the track. An actuation mechanism moves the golf ball delivery track from the lowered rest position to the raised ball teeing position and subsequently back to the lowered rest position, and permits selective delivery of the golf balls presented by the support sequentially onto the golf ball delivery track for subsequent placement on the tee. | ||||||
| 150 | Golf practice device | US09757156 | 2001-01-09 | US06497624B2 | 2002-12-24 | Bill Eugene Howard; James C. Hayden |
| A portable machine for delivering golf balls one at a time onto a tee or a surface simulating a fairway. A bin holds a quantity of practice balls and has a turntable underlying it. An opening on the turntable provides a ball pocket which receives one ball at a time and carries the ball around a circular path to a position aligned above a chute. Each ball delivered by the chute is discharged onto a fairway area or into an inclined trough, depending on how the chute is oriented. At the bottom end of the trough, a tee is raised to tee each ball up at a high or low height, depending upon the setting of a selector switch. A platform which provides a surface on which the user stands is detachable to allow the machine to be carried and stored in two separate pieces. | ||||||
| 151 | Game apparatus having a spherical object drop mechanism | US09870229 | 2001-05-30 | US06488593B2 | 2002-12-03 | Takeo Imahata |
| A spherical object drop mechanism for a game apparatus has a mechanism allowing to drop spherical objects one by one on the desired position on the ground. The spherical object drop mechanism includes a ball guide to store a plurality of spherical objects movable in vertical direction by gravity, an upper housing provided at an upper portion of the ball guide, a lower housing provided at a lower portion of the ball guide, a ball stopper ring to stop and release the movement of the spherical object in the vertical direction, a drive part to transmit the movement to the ball stopper ring, and a lever to operate the drive part from outside. | ||||||
| 152 | Golf ball and tee setting device | US09571159 | 2000-05-16 | US06461254B1 | 2002-10-08 | Bruce Ballett; Osman Tahirovic; Harold Whittaker |
| A golfing aid for golfers who are unable to stoop which allows a golfer to insert a golf ball and tee into the aid in a contacting relationship so that the tee protrudes from the base of the aid a preset distance. The aid has an elongated handle to allow the ball and tee to be pushed into position so that the tee penetrates the ground while the ball is captively held in contact with the tee. The handle is next released and contact with the ball ceases so that the aid may be removed from the ball and tee without dislodging the ball from the tee. | ||||||
| 153 | Inclination-adjustable golf training device | US10079487 | 2002-02-22 | US20020128084A1 | 2002-09-12 | Sang Chul Lee; Chae Hoon Chang |
| Disclosed is an inclination-adjustable golf training device capable of optionally changing the inclination of its platform, on which a player stands to practice his golf swing, in order to simulate the condition of a real golf course, thereby obtaining an enhanced training effect. The golf training device includes an upper plate assembly, to which a ball supply unit and a controller are internally mounted, the upper plate assembly including an upper plate, on which a player stands to practice his golf swing, a lower plate assembly adapted to support the upper plate while being spaced apart from the upper plate, a vertical reciprocating unit mounted on the lower plate assembly while including driving and driven parts operating to adjust the inclination of the upper plate with respect to the lower plate assembly in all radial directions. The vertical reciprocating unit has four operating points for reciprocation arranged on a circle about the center of the upper plate while being uniformly spaced from one another in a circumferential direction, the operating points being arranged in pairs so that the operating points of each operating point pair are opposite to each other while performing vertical movements of the upper plate in opposite directions by the same distance. | ||||||
| 154 | Game apparatus having a spherical object drop mechanism | US09538116 | 2000-03-29 | US06440007B1 | 2002-08-27 | Takeo Imahata |
| A game apparatus has a mechanism allowing to drop spherical objects one by one on the desired positions on the ground. The spherical object drop mechanism includes a housing for storing a plurality of spherical objects to allow vertical movements of the spherical objects therein by their own weight, a first stopper provided in the housing for stopping the vertical movement of the spherical objects, a second stopper provided in the housing located at a location lower than the first stopper by the distance corresponding to the diameter of the spherical object for stopping the vertical movement or releasing the stop operation of the spherical objects, a stopper drive mechanism to operate the first stopper and the second stopper opposite to each other, and a knob to operate the stopper drive mechanism from outside. | ||||||
| 155 | Golf ball tee-up apparatus for driving range | US10042645 | 2002-01-08 | US20020091007A1 | 2002-07-11 | J. Richard Hollrock |
| An apparatus for automatically setting a golf ball on a tee includes an escapement mechanism to isolate a single golf ball from a plurality of golf balls, a hingedly connected chute to channel a golf ball from the escapement mechanism to the tee, and means to raise and lower the chute from alignment with the tee to a position where it will not interfere with the swing of a golfer standing adjacent to the tee. A motor drives a pulley and chain. A cable is pivotally attached to the chain and to a free end of the chute. Rotation of the motor translates into linear movement of the cable, raising or lowering the chute. A helical coil spring may be imposed between the cable and the chute. A tab extending from the chute operates the escapement mechanism so that when the chute is in the raised position, only a single ball drops onto the chute. | ||||||
| 156 | Golf ball teeing apparatus | US09576698 | 2000-05-23 | US06348008B1 | 2002-02-19 | August Bertoniere, Jr. |
| A device for storing golf balls and dispensing them onto a bed of bristles that serves as a golf tee. | ||||||
| 157 | Golf ball dispensing and teeing device | US09288183 | 1999-04-08 | US06328659B1 | 2001-12-11 | Arthur H. Peterson |
| A golf ball dispensing and teeing device that is capable of automatically depositing a golf ball on a fixed tee or other desired location. The golf ball dispensing and teeing device has only one moving part and deposits the golf ball in an easy fashion without regard to whether the golfer is predominately left-handed or right-handed. The golf ball dispensing and teeing device includes a housing that is capable of storing a multiple of golf balls in a generally serpentine fashion as well as a guide assembly that transports a golf ball from the housing to the desired location. | ||||||
| 158 | Golf ball tee-up device | US09451784 | 1999-12-01 | US06203452B1 | 2001-03-20 | Charles D. Kelman; Robert S. Dorfman |
| A device for systematically placing a golf ball on a tee and driving the tee into the ground, to thereby tee-up the golf ball, includes a base with a hopper for holding a supply of tees, and an elongate housing movably fitted to the base. A ball silo within the housing holds a supply of golf balls in a vertical array along a longitudinal axis. While maintaining the base on the ground and applying a downward force on a handle at the top of the housing, the housing is moved relative to the base through a selected range of downward movement, defining a stroke. The stroke movement drives a feed assembly and a pick-up arm to deliver a tee into a loaded position in axial alignment with the longitudinal axis below a lowermost ball in the silo. Thereafter, a timing assembly releases the lowermost ball onto the tee and continued downward movement through the stroke exerts pressure on the top of the ball, thereby driving the tee into the ground. An adjustment member on the housing enables selective adjustment of the stroke distance to thereby control the depth to which the tee is driven into the ground, and thus the height at which the ball is supported above the ground surface. Upon release of the downward force on the handle, springs urge the housing upwardly through a return movement to the first position as the timing assembly drops the remaining balls in the silo one lowered position so that a next successive lowermost ball is held in position to be dropped on a tee during the next downward stroke. | ||||||
| 159 | Automatic golf ball teeing device | US370146 | 1999-08-09 | US6139441A | 2000-10-31 | Richard J. Fairchild |
| A golf ball teeing device includes a rotatable shaft driven through an approximately 180 degree arc by a forwardly and reversely rotating motor. A pair of flexible and parallel arms are mounted on the shaft with an end projecting therefrom. The ends of the arms when in a first position opposed to the tee, secure a ball therebetween from a ramp supply of balls. At this time a forward and reversing switch causes the motor to reverse thereby moving the arms approximately 180 degrees to place the ball on the tee. | ||||||
| 160 | Apparatus for placing a golf ball on a tee | US198743 | 1998-11-24 | US6120383A | 2000-09-19 | Louis S. Brown |
| An apparatus that positions a golf ball on a tee, retrieves and positions a new ball on the tee each time a golfer makes a tee shot. A bucket of balls is charged into the apparatus, and a ramp directs the balls, one at a time, to a tee loading station. Alternatively, balls can enter the tee loading station from an automatic ball dispensing machine by gravity or force-feed. As the tee rotates forward and down, the rotary tee action drives the tee into a ball in the tee loading station. The tee has a bore formed in it that communicates with a source of negative pressure so that a tee driven into contact with the ball is held to the tee by vacuum. The resulting increase in a vacuum line reconfigures a four way valve and activates a mechanism that rotates the tee and ball into a vertical position so that the golfer may strike the ball. The shot disconnects the ball from the tee, resulting in bleeding of the vacuum line, and reconfiguration of the four way valve. The valve activates a mechanism that rotates the tee so that it may retrieve another ball from the tee loading station. The apparatus includes means for adjusting the height to which a ball is teed. The apparatus top wall is a composite of artificial turf and elastomer which exhibits a flexible cushioning surface. | ||||||
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