US654666A - Golf-tee. - Google Patents

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No'. 654,666. Paten ted luly 3|, I900.

J. E. NEWTON.

GOLF TEE.

(Application filed. Feb. 1, 1900.)

(No Model.)

MTIJESSEE v INV NTBR UNITED STATES PATENT OF I E.

AMES EDWARD nnw'ron, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

GOLF-TEE.

WIFIQATION forming part of letters Patent No. 654,666, dated July 31,1900.

' Application filed Ijebrnery 1, 1900. Serial No. 3,627- (ll'o model.)

To all win/om, it may concern:

Be it'know-n that I, J AMES EDWARD N Ew- TON, acitizen' of the United States, residing in Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Golf-Tees, of which the following is a specification.

In the game of golf when the player is to strike the ball from the teeing-oif ground be either draws up a little earth into a small mound, called a tee, or he places an artificial I tee of approximately the shape of a frustum on the ground and lays the ball thereon preparatory to striking it. In cold weather when the ground is frozen it is impossible-to scrape up the earth into a tee, and hence artificial ones are necessarily used. When the ball is placed on an artificial or manufactured tee, however, the tee is very apt to become lost or sentoff a long distance by being struck by the club,

as it requires much accuracy to strike the ball A .v

-j Having t'husfully described my invention,

what I claim,and desireto. secure by Letters full without striking the tee.

the artificial or manufactured tee frombeing lost or sent any considerable distance by the club in the hands of the player; The nature of the invention is fully described below and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of the device, with a portion of the safety or guard cord be ing represented as-broken out. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts 7 A represents the tee proper, made, prefer ably, hollow of tolerably-soft rubber. The position of the ball on the tee is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. p

B is a heavy metallic weight or anchor, provided on its under side with a downwardlyextending annular V-shaped flange B. This holes a b and bein at the top, provided with a recess or chamber 3" of suitable size, and furnished with a hole bin and through its upper portion. The tee is provided witha hole ain its wall, and a cord or wire or theequivaleut of either, preferably about one foot in length, extends from the tee to the weightor anchor and is secured at its opposite :ends by being passed -throu gh the knotted at C. V \Vhen the ball is struck by the player, the tee it touched by the club will swing around on a circle at which the anchor Bis inthe center, and hence cannot become lost. weight of theanchor and the fact that the flange B extends into the ground prevents it from being pulled over onto its side.

varied, if desired.

Patent, is- H The from being pulled out of its position by the 'te'e'andoord, and its broad base prevents it 1. A golf-tee of frustoo0nica1 form, an auchafing-weight having a broad base and centrally-apertured top, and a flexible connection attached to said tee and secured in the central aperture of said weight, substantially as specified.

2. A golf-tee of frusto-conical form, having. a broad hollow base and a seat for the ball at the top, in combination with a frusto-conical weight, apertured at top, flanged. at bottom, and connected with said tee by a flexible connection swiveled in said apertured top, substantially as specified.

JAMES EDWARD NEWTON;

Witnesses i I Mnn'ron "C. FISHER, L. ELMER Woon.

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