US1470603A

US1470603A - Golf-cup device

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Publication number: US1470603A
Application number: US300484A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rhesa G Dubois
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-05-28
Filing date: 1919-05-28
Publication date: 1923-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1940-10-16

Description

Patented Oct. 16, 1923.-

\ 1,4?,6@3 PATENT OFFICE.

RHESA G. DUBIS, or EAST onnnen,nnw JERSEY.

GOLF-GUI DEVICE.

T0 aZZ whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it knownthat I, RHESA G. DUBOIS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Golf- Cup Devices, of which the following is a specification. M

This invention relates to a device used in the outdoor game of golf, and 'it consists in certain improvementsin connection with the cup and fiag device composingthe marker of a putting green, all of Which;will be more fully described hereinafcer and pointed out in the claims. The purposes of my invention are:.

First. To dispense With the usual pointed flag-staff or pin and Central socket for it 'thereby allowing the player to insert the fiag-staif thoughtlessly without the -1 other of findingthe socketinthe bottoin of the 011p as he would have to do with'the ordinary flag pin.

Second. To keep the fiag-stafi' upright and threby prevent it from leaning over against the turf rim of the hole and thereby mutilating the turf and destroying ;thesymmetry of the rimas players and caddies s0 often do whenhurriedly replacing the flagstafi or pin. Third.:' T0 prevent the caddy, When sighting in the player, from damagng the grass around the hole by jabbing the point of the pin into the turf.

Fourth. T0 allow the player, after a shower, to bail water out of the hole by siniply lifting the Water out through the medium of the receptacle onthe end of the flag-stafi and in the same way clear the eup of loose leaves, sand or dirt.-

F ifth. To enable the player to lift his hall out of the cup Withoutstooping, and

Sixth. To allow the flagstafi to stand alone on the green without having to stab a hole in the latter thereby obviating the necessity of stooping to lift the removed fiag from a pro1ie positionon the green.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 represents a side-elevation of my invention wherein the fiag member is shown in the act of being lifted out of the cup.

Figure 2 a transverse sectional view in whch the fiag-staff' is shown in full limes, an

Figure 3 a top view of the flag-stafi'.

To accomplishthe foregoing advantages Application filed May 28,1919. Serial No. 300,434.

I secre the lower extremity of a flagsta 1 to a telescoping cylindrical cup-shaped member 2 Which fits loosely within a corresponding fiXed cuph3 set in the ground 4: of a putting green 5. Thiscylindrical or tubular member 2 comprises a fiat bottom 6 which rests upon the bottom 7 of fixed cup 3 and is provided With a substantially fullwidth upwardly extending skirt 13. The flagstaff is attachedto the center of the bottom 6 of the inner telescoping cup 2 through the medium of an integral extension 8' and nut 9. A shoulder 10 rests on the top of and passesthrough a conical reinforcenient ll*rising from the bottom 6 of cup 2. A recess 12 receives the nut 9 so that the latter Will lieflush with the bot-- interiorvertical wall flush with the interior earth wallor lip 15 of the hole 18, as seen more clearly in Figurel, 9.voiding the for mation of a bevel Which might create a rim ming action of the ball. 16 is any ordinary flag attached to the top of staff 1. A golf ball 17 is indicated by dotted limes as lying in thegcupin Fig1ireS2 and 3.

Briefly describedthe o1oerationof the device is as follows:

The hole 18 in the puttinggreen 5 is only 43; inches in dian1eter and must be marked by the fiag such as 16 fiying from the flagstaff 1 so that the player can accurately lo cate the goal atthe distance from whioh the play is to be made. On hilly linksthe flag -is essentialto locate the position, notonly of thehole, but of the green itself, and it therefore becomes avery important element;

On approaching, if the ball should drop in the cup or hole and the player does not care to stoop over to pick it outof the cup 3, all hehas to do is to lift the flagstaff 1 out with one hand and. remove the bail 17 with the other hand. In case the eup should be filled with rain water the .lat-' surface is kept s-mooth by dragging a mat over it. That operation is often performed by a laborer twice a day in order to smooth ont foot prints and depressions caused by the point of the fiag-staff while in the hands of the players and caddies. In dragging the green around the hole, the drag brushes sand and gravel into the Cnp and qnickly fille the pin hole in the bottom, and the work of inserting the hand into the cup and diggng out the dirt to open the hole becomes such a nuisance that green keepers become Careless and neglect it altogether.

The result is that the pin hole stays plugged most of the time, and. players chuck the pin into the cup where it leans over against the lip and bevels the hole and destroys its synr metry. This bevelling of the hole causes rimming and takes away much of the charm of the game.

In the use of my invention the tendency of the flag-staff to lean over against the turfe dge or lip 15 of the hole, by reason of Wind or improper replacing,will be checked by the contact of the skirt 13 with the inner wall 20 of the fixed cup 3.

The replacing of the fiag may be done with the greatest facility by simply sliding the fiag cup 2 into the fixed cup 3 quickly withont precision. And when so placed, the flag-staff cannot tip over sidewise t0 chafe the surrounding turfedge 15. lVhen the flag is out, and While the players are put ting, the broad bottomfi of the cup when coming in contact with the green wilL not injure it,and the preservation of the turf aronnd the cup Will be thus maintained and the necessity of frequently moving the cup from one part of the green to another is obviated.

Although I have described andshown one form of carrying out my invention it .is obvious that an infinite variety of others might b substitnted withoiit escaping the main 1 ea.

Having thns described my device what I cl aim as new andkdesire to secure by LettersPatent is:

1. Ina golf cup flag device, the combination with a lining for the hole of a putting green, of a cylindrically cupshaped mem ber forming a fiag staff base and which removably fits in and telescopes with said lin- A golf cup flag device, consisting of the usual cylindrical member adapted to be sunk below the surface of the green, in combination with a flagbase and fiagstaff, said base eomprising a cylindrical cup closed at the bottom and open at the top and having a, flagstaff centrally attached to the bottom Of the cup.

3. A golf cup flag devine, consisting of the usual cylindrical member adapted to be sunk below the surface of the green, in combination with a fiag base and fiag-staff', said base comprising a cylindrical cup closed at the bottom and open at the top and having a flag staff attached to and terminating at the bottom of the cup.

4. A golf cup flag device, consisting of the usual cylindrical member adapted to be sunk below the surface of the green, in combinacion with a fiag staff secured at its loWer terior wall of the hole, in combination with a stem portion rising from the central lower portion of the cup.

6. In a: golf hole marker, a cylindrical holelin ing adapted to remain in the ground, in combination with a cylindrical removable cp-member telescopingvvith the interior of the hole lining, and a flag staff attachment fo1; lifting out the cup member.

In a golf hole marker, a fiag dev1oe comprising an outer cup adapted to line the hole,in combination with an inner removable cup-shaped nre1nber loosely telescoping" with the outer cup and a central fiag staff attachment rising from the bottom of the inner remOvable member.

8. In a golf hole-marker, a flag staff having its lower end centrally attached to the lo-wer portion of a cylindrical cup which telescopes with the vertical wall of thehole in the green, and Which is open at the top to receive a hall, whereby the cup and staff may be lifted bodily together out of the hole.

9. In a, golf hole-marker, a flag staff having its lower end held in the lowercentral portion of a cylindrical cup adapted t0 enter a cylindrical hole in the ground, said cup being open atthe top to receive a golf hall, and having a width relative to the hole slightly smaller than the latter and which permits the cup to slide vertically and frely in and out but.will engage the. interior ver. tical Wall thereof whenever the cup is rocked latterly while within the hole, whereby the staff Will be held clear of the lipof the hole.

Signed at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, this 16th day of May, A. D.

RIIESA Gr-. DUBOIS.