DE8504307U1 - Tee support for golf ball - Google Patents

Description

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Dr.-Ing. Roland Liesegang,; ,,., '' ,, ',:.,'., ', ..' Patent attorney

European patent attorney

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Tee support for golf ball

The innovation concerns a tee support for golf balls with a plug point for insertion into the ground, shaft and an annular one carried by the shaft Ball rest.

The tee-off support is inserted into the ground by the player at the tee-off point of the golf ball. Then the ball is placed on and hit by the player from a level slightly above the ground, in order to avoid tearing up the soil by the club when teeing off. It often happens that the tee support, also called tee, is knocked away when teeing off and up to a few meters falls back to the ground a long way from the teeing point. Even with the execution of the downstroke in a contrasting color to the lawn, it is often difficult due to the small dimensions of the tee to find them again. Even the placement of the golf ball on the tee-off support inserted into the ground is often not easy for the player because of the poor visibility.

The innovation is based on the task of creating a tee support for a golf ball with which the

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Placing the ball and finding it again after the tee are made easier.

To solve this problem, a tee prop of the type described is provided according to the innovation, that at least the ball rest consists of a light-collecting polymer and at the upper edge a flat one Has edge surface.

iö foils or plates made from a light-collecting, transpa Rent polymers are known (DE-OS 32 35 526, 32 36 241). The foils or plates absorb direct or diffuse ambient light, transform it into longer-wave light and emit it as fluorescence radiation, which is totally reflected inside the film or plate, on edge surfaces into the environment, so that a luminous effect occurs on the cut edges of the foils or plates. the The innovation makes use of this for the tee support by using the flat edge surface on the upper edge lets the ball rest "shine" due to the light collecting effect. Otherwise it will be bad from the usual viewing height recognizable teeing support more easily visible, so that the ball and the Finding them after the tee is made easier.

The luminous effect of the flat edge surface is particularly strong if the edge surface crosses the ball rest cuts off and is limited on both sides by sharp ring edges. The ball rest and / or the shaft can be embossed or engraved on the inside or outside, which are due to the Lichtsam meieffektes of the transparent polymer can also "glow". Is it the embossing or engravings around texts, for example advertising texts,

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so when they are brought into the f

Inner wall of the ball rest and / or the also |

hollow shaft provided mirror-inverted, so that | they appear normally legible to the viewer.

The tee support according to the innovation retains its improved visibility even in humid or humidified dirty condition. I.

The innovation is explained in more detail below using an exemplary embodiment with further details.

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a tee support according to the innovation and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through a modified one

Tee support according to the innovation. §

The shown tee supports exist completely

made of a light-gathering polymer and have a |

annular ball support 1, which is initially tapered downwards and then cylindrical extending hollow shaft 2 is supported. Closes to the lower end of the hollow shaft 2 an equally hollow plug-in tip 3 for inserting the tee support into the ground. The upper

The edge of the ball rest 1 is marked by a flat, transverse 1

m of the edge surfaces 6 that run towards the ski support and are delimited on both sides by sharp edges 4.5. Even with weak lighting, some of the fluorescent radiation generated by the fluorescent centers in the polymer partially emerges via the flat edge surface 6 and thereby causes a "glow", which makes the tee-off support easier for the player both for the purpose of placing the ball and when looking for it again after the tee visible

power.

In the embodiment of Fig. 1 are in the inner wall

7 of the ball rest 1 character 8 mirror-inverted embossed or engraved. These characters

8 appear to the observer the right way around and glow.

In the case of the modification, Fly. 2 Are characters 9 introduced into the ball rest 1 from the outside. In addition, characters 10 are in from the outside introduced the hollow shaft 2. These characters also "shine" on the walls of the embossments or Engravings. These can be introduced using laser technology.

In addition to the improved visibility and findability the downstroke according to the innovation, this comes due to the luminous effect of the embossed Signs or texts have an increased attention value, so that the tee support is advantageous can be used as an advertising medium.

Finally, in the drawings, for the purpose of explanation, a golf ball 12 is shown in dash-dotted lines the downstroke shown in the laid-up position.

Claims (3)

I "Tee support for golf ball with tip for Inserting into the ground, shaft and an annular ball rest carried by the shaft, characterized in that at least the ball rest (1) consists of a light-collecting transparent polymer and on the upper edge has a flat edge surface (6). 2. tee support according to claim 1, characterized in that the edge surface (6) the ball rest (1) cuts across. 15th 3. tee support according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the edge surface (6) is limited on both sides by sharp ring edges (4,5). 20th 4, tee support according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the ball support (1) and / or the shaft (2) is provided with embossings or engravings (8, 9, 10).